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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Group Author: Blommaert, Jan, 1961; Leppanen, Sirpa, 1956; Pahta, Paivi; Raisanen, Tiina, 1980
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Literature type: Electronic Software eBook
Language: English
Series: Language and globalization
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Online Access: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137283566
Summary: 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.
Item Description: Electronic book text.
Epublication based on: 9780230321410.
Carrier Form: 320 p. : 1 b&w, 8 figures, ill., 7.
ISBN: 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