Language tensions and unseen languages in a multilingual university: the perspectives of university lecturers

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Table 1. Participant by faculty and gender; linguistic repertoire (i.e. first language(s) in bold, followed by actively-used languages, followed by passive languages/those learnt but no longer spoken in brackets); and experience of studying, having a post-doc position or teaching abroad.

Participant	Languages	Studied abroad?	Post-doc abroad?	Taught abroad?
ART1 (F)	Finnish, English, Swedish (German, Spanish,)	> 4 years	No	≈ 4 years
ART2 (M)	Finnish, English, French, German, Swedish (Estonian, Italian, Romanian, Russian, Spanish)	≈ 2 years	> 1 year	2 years
ART3 (M)	Finnish, Estonian, English, Hungarian, Mari, North Sámi, Swedish (French, German, Russian)	0.5 years	No	No
ART4 (F)	Finnish, English German, Swedish (Catalan, French, Russian)	≈ 4 years	1 year	≈ 8 years
BSC1 (M)	Finnish, English, Swedish (Spanish)	No	No	No
BSC2 (M)	Swedish, English (Finnish, German)	0.5 years	5 years	≈ 10 years
BSC3 (M)	Finnish, English, Swedish (Russian)	No	6.5 years	No
BS4 (F)	Finnish, English (German, Swedish)	3 years	≈ 1 years	No
ED1 (F)	Finnish, English (French, Spanish, Swedish)	0.25 years	No	≈ 0.5 years
ED2 (F)	Finnish, English, Swedish (Latin, Russian)	No	No	< 0.2 years

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!	Animated or emphatic tone
*words*	Words that are said while laughing
hah	Laughter
(…)	Text omitted from transcription
[word]	Non-verbal communication or word added for clarity by the writer
word	Indicates emphasis
,	Continuing intonation
?	Rising inflection
.hh	audible inbreath
word:	extension of the syllable sound
(.)	very short pause
(.1)	pause timed to the second
(XXX)	speech that cannot be deciphered
°word°	quieter than surrounding talk