Overview
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
- Focus on multilingual individuals and discusses how their lives are affected by different languages
- Examines language discourses of individual speakers that echo their society and influence people’s lives
- Dedicated to discourses by people who have lived in the Far North of Europe for generations
Part of the book series: Arctic Encounters (AE)
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About this book
This open access book sheds light on 21st-Century multilingualism in the Far North of Europe – Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Estonia – an area with multifaceted contacts between many Uralic and Indo-European languages. These contacts are taking new forms as migration and English as the lingua franca are changing the linguistic situation remarkably. The national languages dominate the life of most inhabitants, while the use of indigenous Saami languages, old minority languages, and the languages of new immigrants is limited to certain areas or domains. This volume takes a close look at multilingual individuals and discusses how their lives are affected by different languages.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Maria Frick is a University Lecturer at the University of Oulu, Finland. She conducts research in interactional linguistics and multilingual and multimodal interactional practices. She has published in peer-reviewed international journals, such as Pragmatics, International Journal of Bilingualism, and Multilingua.
Jussi Ylikoski is Professor of Finno-Ugric Languages at the University of Turku, Finland and Adjunct Professor at the Sámi University of Applied Sciences in Guovdageaidnu, Norway. He has worked on several Saami, Finnic, and other Uralic languages, specialising in morphology, syntax, and historical linguistics. He also has a wider background in general linguistics and is an experienced editor of linguistic publications.
Tiina Räisänen works as a University Lecturer in English at the University of Oulu, Finland. Her research focuses on professional discourse and communication in various working life contexts. She has published in peer-reviewed international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, International Journal of Applied Linguistics, and Management International Review.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Language Contacts and Discourses in the Far North
Editors: Maria Frick, Tiina Räisänen, Jussi Ylikoski
Series Title: Arctic Encounters
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42979-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-42978-1Published: 15 December 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-42981-1Published: 15 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-42979-8Published: 14 December 2023
Series ISSN: 2730-6488
Series E-ISSN: 2730-6496
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 359
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Intercultural Communication, Human Geography, Linguistics, general, Anthropology