Identities in action: a nexus analysis of identity construction and language shift

• Published in: Visual Communication
• Main Author: Lane, Pia
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 2009
• Subjects: Visual Arts and Performing Arts; Communication; Canada; Norway; Finn; Bugøynes; Northern Norway
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1470357209343360; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1470357209343360

This article investigates language shift and identity construction in two Finnic-speaking communities: Lappe in Ontario, Canada and Bugøynes in Northern Norway by asking how the people of these two communities perceive themselves at a time when their minority language is in the process of disappeari...