Dangerous multilingualism Northern perspectives on order, purity and normality /
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 div...
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Language: | English |
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Language and globalization
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137283566 |
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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. |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9780230321410. |
Carrier Form: | 320 p. : 1 b&w, 8 figures, ill., 7. |
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9780230321410 9781137283566 : 1137283564 : |
CLC: | H0 |
Contents: | Introduction Endangering Multilingualism-- J.Blommaert, S.Leppanen & M.Spotti PART I: ORDER - DISORDER Finland's 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 Bilingu |