Author : Mia Halonen
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,48 MB
Release : 2015
Category : 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.
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Page : 278 pages
File Size : 36,4 MB
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ISBN : 1783092718
Author : F. Xavier Vila Moreno
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 24,45 MB
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : 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.
Author : Taina Saarinen
Publisher : Palgrave Pivot
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 49,62 MB
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : 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.
Author : Emili Boix
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 25,54 MB
Release : 2015
Category : 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.
Author : J. Blommaert
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,22 MB
Release : 2012-11-14
Category : 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.
Author : Asta Cekaite
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 26,38 MB
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107017645
This collection offers an in-depth study of children's peer talk and its potential impact on children's learning.
Author : William R. Beer
Publisher : Government Institutes
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 16,48 MB
Release : 1985
Category : 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.
Author : Robert B. Kaplan
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 16,65 MB
Release : 2005
Category : 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.
Author : Robert B. Kaplan
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 48,20 MB
Release : 2005
Category : 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.
