Dangerous Multilingualism: Northern Perspectives on Order, Purity and Normality

Description: Dangerous Multilingualism by J. Blommaert, S. Leppänen, P. Pahta, T. Virkkula 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. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Notes Studies how language ideological processes of power endanger multilingual subjects and their real-life chances Author Biography JAN BLOMMAERT Professor of Language, Culture and Globalization at Tilburg University, The NetherlandsMARJA HUJO Teacher of English in Sastamala Community College, FinlandTEIJA KANGASVIERI Research Coordinator in the Finnish Network for Language Education Policies at the Centre for Applied Language Studies (CALS) at the University of Jyväskylä, FinlandHELEN KELLY-HOLMES Lecturer in Sociolinguistics and New Media at the University of Limerick, IrelandSAMU KYTOLA Junior Researcher at the Department of Languages, University of Jyväskylä, FinlandSIRKKU LATOMAA Lecturer in Finnish in the School of Language, Translation and Literary Studies at the University of Tampere, FinlandSIRPA LEPPANEN Professor of English at the University of Jyväskylä, FinlandMIKA LAHTEENMAKI University Researcher in the Department of Languages at the University of Jyväskylä, FinlandMAISA MARTIN Professor of Finnish as a second and foreign language at the Department of Languages at Jyväskylä University, FinlandTARJA NIKULA Professor in the Centre for Applied Language Studies (CALS) at the University of Jyväskylä, FinlandPAIVI PAHTA Professor of English at the University of Tampere, FinlandSARI PIETIKAINEN Professor of Discourse Studies at the Department of Languages, University of Jyväskylä, FinlandANNE PITKANEN-HUHTA Professor of English and Head of the Department of Languages, University of Jyväskylä, FinlandSARI POYHONEN works as a Senior Researcher (languageeducation policies) at the Centre for Applied Language Studies (CALS) at University of Jyväskylä, FinlandTIINA RAISANEN Junior Researcher in the Department of Languages, University of Jyväskylä, FinlandTAINA SAARINEN Researcher at the Centre for Applied Language Studies (CALS) at the University of Jyväskylä, FinlandOLLI-PEKKA SALO Teacher of Swedish at the University of Jyväskylä Teacher Training School, FinlandMASSIMILIANO SPOTTI Deputy Director of Babylon, Centre for Studies of the Multicultural Society at Tilburg University, the NetherlandsMINNA SUNI Lecturer in Finnish Language at the Department of Languages, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and Postdoctoral Researcher (2011-2013) funded by the Academy of FinlandRITVA TAKKINEN Professor of Finnish Sign Language at the University of Jyväskylä, FinlandELINA TAPIO University teacher in Finnish Sign Language in the Department of Languages at the University of JyväskyläMARJATTA VANHALA-AANISZEWSKI Professor of Russian Language and Culture in the Department of Languages, University of Jyväskylä, FinlandSANNA VOIPIO-HUOVINEN PhD candidate of Finnish and Education at the University of Jyväskylä and at the University of Helsinki, Sweden Table of Contents Introduction Endangering Multilingualism; J.Blommaert , S.Leppanen & M.Spotti PART I: ORDER - DISORDER Finlands Official Bilingualism - a Bed of Roses or of Procrustes?; O-P.Salo Linguistic Diversity as a Problem and a Resource - Multilingualism in European and Finnish Policy Documents; T.Nikula , S.Poyhonen , T.Saarinen & T.Kangasvieri Dealing with Increasing Linguistic Diversity in Schools - the Finnish Example; M.Suni & S.Latomaa Problematic Plurilingualism - Teachers Views; S.Voipio-Huovinen & M.Martin PART II: PURITY - IMPURITY Hard Currency or a Stigma - the Russian-Finnish Bilingualism Among Young Russian-speaking Immigrants in Finland; M.Lahteenmaki & M.Vanhala-Aniszewski Finnish Culture and Language Endangered - Language Ideological Debates on English in the Finnish Press from 1995 to 2007; S.Leppanen & P.Pahta Multilingualism in Nordic Cooperation - a View from the Margin; M.Martin The Dangers of Normativity - the Case of Minority Language Media; S.Pietikainen & H.Kelly-Holmes PART III: NORMALITY - ABNORMALITY Discourses of Proficiency and Normality - Endangering Aspects of English in an Individuals Biography of Language Use; T.Raisanen Peer Normativity and Sanctioning of Linguistic Resources-in-use - on Non-Standard Englishes in Finnish Football Forums Online; S.Kytola Experiencing Multilingualism - the Elderly becoming Marginalized?; A.Pitkanen-Huhta & M.Hujo When One of Your Languages is not Recognised as a Language at All; E.Tapio & R.Takkinen Long Description This volume presents studies that provide detailed and actual descriptions of endangering situations of multilingualism. Theoretically, it documents language-ideological processes of power and their effects on the real life-chances of multilingual subjects. In that sense, it provides addenda to existing scholarship on language endangerment, language policy and language rights. The empirical data in most studies comes from Finland, a country where a robust self-perception of monolingualism and cultural homogeneity obscures a number of hidden forms of problematic multilingualism. Two chapters extend the discussion to other North European contexts. The book captures these problems in terms of the tension between late-modern forms of social, cultural and linguistic diversity and responses to this diversity which range from modernist reactions emphasizing order, purity and normality, to pre-modernist responses which recycle the late 19th century national romantic notions of one language, one nation. Although most of the chapters discuss issues of multilingualism in a north European contexts, this book is of interest to international audiences, mainly because the dangers of multilingualism it discusses are not foreign to other contexts of the world facing globalization and superdiversity and the challenges they pose on the nation state and its language situations and ideologies. Description for Bookstore Studies how language ideological processes of power endanger multilingual subjects and their real-life chances Details ISBN0230321410 Short Title DANGEROUS MULTILINGUALISM Series Language and Globalization Language English ISBN-10 0230321410 ISBN-13 9780230321410 Media Book Format Hardcover Publication Date 2012-11-14 Year 2012 Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Subtitle Northern Perspectives on Order, Purity and Normality Place of Publication Basingstoke Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by S. Leppänen UK Release Date 2012-11-14 AU Release Date 2012-11-14 NZ Release Date 2012-11-14 Author T. Virkkula Pages 328 Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Alternative 9781349340392 DEWEY 306.446 Illustrations XV, 328 p. Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:97215634;

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