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Author: Mia Halonen
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 178309270X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
Author: F. Xavier Vila Moreno
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2014-12-05
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 1783092777
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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
Published: 2020-11-17
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 9783030609016
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 1783093900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Asta Cekaite
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-04-03
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 1107017645
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection offers an in-depth study of children's peer talk and its potential impact on children's learning.
Author: J. Blommaert
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-11-14
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1137283564
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocuses 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: Mila Schwartz
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-12-12
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9400777531
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: William R. Beer
Publisher: Government Institutes
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780865980587
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9781853598135
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
