Workplace multilingualism in shifting contexts: A historical case
Abstract This article investigates linguistic diversity, migration, and labour in the case of a nineteenth-century copper mine in the multilingual northern periphery of Norway. Taking a historical perspective on workplace multilingualism, it reveals the dynamic relationships between the economic int...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0047404517000628 2024-03-03T08:47:21+00:00 Workplace multilingualism in shifting contexts: A historical case Hiss, Florian 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404517000628 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0047404517000628 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Language in Society volume 46, issue 5, page 697-718 ISSN 0047-4045 1469-8013 Linguistics and Language Sociology and Political Science Language and Linguistics journal-article 2017 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047404517000628 2024-02-08T08:29:11Z Abstract This article investigates linguistic diversity, migration, and labour in the case of a nineteenth-century copper mine in the multilingual northern periphery of Norway. Taking a historical perspective on workplace multilingualism, it reveals the dynamic relationships between the economic interests and policy-making of an industrial enterprise and the political and sociolinguistic development in a multilingual region, at a time when national authorities introduced assimilation policies. Owned and managed by British industrialists, the mine recruited almost exclusively migrant workers to a remote fjord in the Norwegian periphery, many of them Kven from northern Finland and Sweden. In a multi-layered approach, the study sketches multilingual work practices, policy-making, and the discursive positioning of diversity, and explores the company's management of the relationships between capital, community, and nation-state. It reveals the company's flexible approach towards diversity governed by economic interest. (Workplace multilingualism, mining, Kven, Norway, historical)* Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Finland Cambridge University Press Norway Copper Mine ENVELOPE(-59.667,-59.667,-62.383,-62.383) Language in Society 46 5 697 718 |
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Abstract This article investigates linguistic diversity, migration, and labour in the case of a nineteenth-century copper mine in the multilingual northern periphery of Norway. Taking a historical perspective on workplace multilingualism, it reveals the dynamic relationships between the economic interests and policy-making of an industrial enterprise and the political and sociolinguistic development in a multilingual region, at a time when national authorities introduced assimilation policies. Owned and managed by British industrialists, the mine recruited almost exclusively migrant workers to a remote fjord in the Norwegian periphery, many of them Kven from northern Finland and Sweden. In a multi-layered approach, the study sketches multilingual work practices, policy-making, and the discursive positioning of diversity, and explores the company's management of the relationships between capital, community, and nation-state. It reveals the company's flexible approach towards diversity governed by economic interest. (Workplace multilingualism, mining, Kven, Norway, historical)* |
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Workplace multilingualism in shifting contexts: A historical case |
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