Dangerous Multilingualism: Northern Perspectives on Order, Purity and Normality [Paperback]

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.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 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 Individual's 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.TakkinenJAN BLOMMAERT Professor of Language, Culture and Globalization at Tilburg University, The NetherlandsMARJA HUJO Teacher of English ilsY