Language Policies in Finland and Sweden

Language Policies in Finland and Sweden
Author: Mia Halonen
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2015
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 178309270X

In this volume, authors from four disciplines join forces to develop an analysis of political discourse on a comparative and multidisciplinary basis. Theoretically the book draws on the concept of language policy, operationalising it through the politics and policies of Finland and Sweden.

Higher Education, Language and New Nationalism in Finland

Higher Education, Language and New Nationalism in Finland
Author: Taina Saarinen
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2020-11-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9783030609016

The book discusses recycled discourses of language and nationalism in Finnish higher education, demonstrating the need to look beyond language in the study of language policies of higher education. It analyses the historical and political layeredness of language policies as well as the intertwined nature of national and international developments in understanding new nationalism. Finnish higher education language policies were fuelled by the dynamics and tensions between the national languages Finnish and Swedish until the 2000s, when English begins to catalyse post nationalist discourses of economy and competitiveness. In the 2010s, English begins to be seen as a threat to Finnish. Educational, economic and epistemic nationalism emerge as the main cycles of new nationalist language policies in Finnish higher education. The book will be of interest to language policy and higher education scholars and practitioners, as well as graduate students language policy and higher education.

Language Policy in Higher Education

Language Policy in Higher Education
Author: F. Xavier Vila Moreno
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2014-12-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1783092777

In today's increasingly interconnected, knowledge-based world, language policy in higher education is rapidly becoming a crucial area for all societies aiming to play a part in the global economy. The challenge is double faceted: how can universities retain their crucial role of creating the intellectual elites who are indispensable for the running of national affairs and, at the same time, prepare their best-educated citizens for competition in a global market? To what extent is English really pushing other languages out of the academic environment? Drawing on the experience of several medium-sized language communities, this volume provides the reader with some important insights into how language policies can be successfully implemented. The different sociolinguistic contexts under scrutiny offer an invaluable comparative standpoint to understand what position can – or could – be occupied by each language at the level of higher education.

Urban Diversities and Language Policies in Medium-sized Linguistic Communities

Urban Diversities and Language Policies in Medium-sized Linguistic Communities
Author: Emili Boix
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2015
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1783093900

This book examines medium-sized linguistic communities in urban contexts against the backdrop of the language policies which have been implemented in these respective areas. The book aims to improve our understanding of how and why languages live and decay, and of how intercultural cities, where communities show interest in each other's culture and language, can be better built and encouraged.

Successful Family Language Policy

Successful Family Language Policy
Author: Mila Schwartz
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2013-12-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9400777531

This book presents the forefront of research in the emerging field of family language policy. This is the first volume to explore the link between family language policy, practice and management in the light of state and community language policy in more than 20 ethno-linguistic communities worldwide. Contributions by leading scholars from eight countries and three continents offer insights in how family language policy might be interpreted from various theoretical perspectives, using innovative methodologies. In particular, the authors present novel data on successful family language practices such as faith-related literacy activities and homework sessions, as well as management, including prayer, choice of bilingual education, and links with mainstream and complementary learning, which permit the realization of language ideology within three contexts: immigrant families, inter-marriage families, and minority and majority families in conflict-ridden societies.

Dangerous Multilingualism

Dangerous Multilingualism
Author: J. Blommaert
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2012-11-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1137283564

Focuses on the endangering effects of language-ideological processes. This book looks at the challenges imposed by globalization and super-diversity on the nation state and its language situations and ideologies, and demonstrates how many of its problems rise from the tension between late-modern diversity and the (pre-)modernist responses to it.

Language Policy and National Unity

Language Policy and National Unity
Author: William R. Beer
Publisher: Government Institutes
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1985
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780865980587

The central focus of each chapter is language policy and how it accomplishes-or fails to accomplish-the task of maintaining national unity in the face of linguistic diversity. Included among the nations considered are examples of postcolonial cultures, as well as nations that have sheltered linguistic minorities within their borders throughout their history, countries fragmented into tribal groups, and those divided by a plethora of local dialects.

Language Planning and Policy in Europe

Language Planning and Policy in Europe
Author: Robert B. Kaplan
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2005
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781853598135

This text covers the language situation in Hungary, Finland, and Sweden explaining linguistic diversity, historical and political contexts, including language-in-education planning; and the roles of the media, of religion, and of minority and migrant languages. The authors have been participants in the language planning context in these polities.

The Legal Recognition of Sign Languages

The Legal Recognition of Sign Languages
Author: Maartje De Meulder
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2019-06-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1788924029

This book presents the first ever comprehensive overview of national laws recognising sign languages, the impacts they have and the advocacy campaigns which led to their creation. It comprises 18 studies from communities across Europe, the US, South America, Asia and New Zealand. They set sign language legislation within the national context of language policies in each country and show patterns of intersection between language ideologies, public policy and deaf communities’ discourses. The chapters are grounded in a collaborative writing approach between deaf and hearing scholars and activists involved in legislative campaigns. Each one describes a deaf community’s expectations and hopes for legal recognition and the type of sign language legislation achieved. The chapters also discuss the strategies used in achieving the passage of the legislation, as well as an account of barriers confronted and surmounted (or not) in the legislative process. The book will be of interest to language activists in the fields of sign language and other minority languages, policymakers and researchers in deaf studies, sign linguistics, sociolinguistics, human rights law and applied linguistics.

Language Planning and Policy in Europe

Language Planning and Policy in Europe
Author: Robert B. Kaplan
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2005
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781853598111

This volume covers the language situation in Hungary, Finland, and Sweden explaining the linguistic diversity, the historical and political contexts and the current language situation, including language-in-education planning, the role of the media, the role of religion, and the roles of minority and migrant languages. The authors have been participants in the language planning context in these polities.