Hultgren, Anna Kristina, Frans Gregersen, & Jacob Thøgersen (eds.): En-glish in Nordic universities: Ideologies and practices.
This timely and thought-provoking volume discusses the contemporary En-glishisation of the universities of Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Fin-land. The Nordic countries are at the forefront of a global trend in which English is supplanting national languages in the four functions of academia:...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:df2f62241b5a4e71b5cb77349457fec2 2023-05-15T16:50:07+02:00 Hultgren, Anna Kristina, Frans Gregersen, & Jacob Thøgersen (eds.): En-glish in Nordic universities: Ideologies and practices. Tran Truong 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z https://doaj.org/article/df2f62241b5a4e71b5cb77349457fec2 DA DE EN NB NN SV dan ger eng nob nno swe Novus forlag http://ojs.novus.no/index.php/NLT/article/view/1499 https://doaj.org/toc/0800-3076 https://doaj.org/toc/2387-6719 0800-3076 2387-6719 https://doaj.org/article/df2f62241b5a4e71b5cb77349457fec2 Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift, Vol 36, Iss 1 (2018) Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 article 2018 ftdoajarticles 2022-12-30T20:15:03Z This timely and thought-provoking volume discusses the contemporary En-glishisation of the universities of Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Fin-land. The Nordic countries are at the forefront of a global trend in which English is supplanting national languages in the four functions of academia: knowledge production, dissemination, education, and administration. The contributors study this trend both in terms of how Englishisation is discussed as well as how language choice is negotiated in real time by students, faculty, and staff. Book-ended by an introduction and a brief commentary are ten report chapters, two per country, which cast into stark relief the sizeable gap between ideology and practice, utilising a panoply of disciplinary approaches, to include sociology, language policy, historical linguistics, discourse analysis, ethnography, and sur-vey research. This work should prove enlightening to a wide spectrum of read-ers, be they specifically interested in language (e.g., sociolinguists, contact linguists, linguistic anthropologists) or more generally in the supra-economic consequences of globalisation on the university in late modernity. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Norway |
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This timely and thought-provoking volume discusses the contemporary En-glishisation of the universities of Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Fin-land. The Nordic countries are at the forefront of a global trend in which English is supplanting national languages in the four functions of academia: knowledge production, dissemination, education, and administration. The contributors study this trend both in terms of how Englishisation is discussed as well as how language choice is negotiated in real time by students, faculty, and staff. Book-ended by an introduction and a brief commentary are ten report chapters, two per country, which cast into stark relief the sizeable gap between ideology and practice, utilising a panoply of disciplinary approaches, to include sociology, language policy, historical linguistics, discourse analysis, ethnography, and sur-vey research. This work should prove enlightening to a wide spectrum of read-ers, be they specifically interested in language (e.g., sociolinguists, contact linguists, linguistic anthropologists) or more generally in the supra-economic consequences of globalisation on the university in late modernity. |
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