Course code

EKS7201.HT

old course code

Course title in Estonian

Soome keele variatiivsus ja kultuuriline mitmekesisus

Course title in English

Linguistic And Cultural Variety Of Finnish

ECTS credits

6.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

To give an overview of historical development of Finnish standard language, geographical and social dialects and sublanguages, users and culture in comparison with closely related languages, to introduce current trends in development of Finnish geographical and social dialects and Finnish as the official language of The European Union.

Brief description of the course

Give an overview of the history of Finnish language and the first written texts; introduce Finnish dialects and their linguistic and cultural specifity; analyse the results of language reform; introduce modern spoken language; give an overview of modern geographical and social dialects with main focus on Helsinki slang

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- has a knowledge of the periods of the history of Finnish language and the history;
- is familiar with problems and codification of literary Finnish, has knowledge of sublanguages and trends of their development, has ability to compare the structures and paradigmatic of sublanguages;
- has ability to notice changes in usage of modern Finnish;
- is tolerant with the plurality and variety of regional, social and individual sublanguages.

Teacher

Jaakko Raunamaa

Study programmes containing that course

Teacher of Foreign Languages (GRVOM/24.HT)
Teacher of Foreign Languages (GRVOM/23.HT)
Teacher of Foreign Languages (GRVOM/22.HT)
Teacher of Foreign Languages (GRVOM/21.HT)
Teacher of Foreign Languages (GRVOM/20.HT)
Teacher of Foreign Languages (GRVOM/17.HT)
Teacher of Foreign Languages (GRVOM/16.HT)