Dangerous Multilingualism

1. Endangering Multilingualism

1. Endangering Multilingualism
Jan Blommaert, Sirpa Leppänen, Massimiliano Spotti

Part I. Order — Disorder

2. Finland’s Official Bilingualism — a Bed of Roses or of Procrustes?
Olli-Pekka Salo

3. Linguistic Diversity as a Problem and a Resource — Multilingualism in European and Finnish Policy Documents
Tarja Nikula, Taina Saarinen, Sari Pöyhönen, Teija Kangasvieri

4. Dealing with Increasing Linguistic Diversity in Schools — the Finnish Example
Minna Suni, Sirkku Latomaa

5. Problematic Plurilingualism — Teachers’ Views
Sanna Voipio-Huovinen, Maisa Martin

Part II. Purity — Impurity

6. Hard Currency or a Stigma — Russian-Finnish Bilingualism among Young Russian-Speaking Immigrants in Finland
Mika Lähteenmäki, Marjatta Vanhala-Aniszewski

7. Finnish Culture and Language Endangered — Language Ideological Debates on English in the Finnish Press from 1995 to 2007
Sirpa Leppänen, Päivi Pahta

8. Multilingualism in Nordic Cooperation — a View from the Margin
Maisa Martin

9. The Dangers of Normativity — the Case of Minority Language Media
Sari Pietikäinen, Helen Kelly-Holmes

Part III. Normality — Abnormality

10. Discourses of Proficiency and Normality — Endangering Aspects of English in an Individual’s Biography of Language Use
Tiina Räisänen

11. Peer Normativity and Sanctioning of Linguistic Resources-in-Use — on Non-Standard Englishes in Finnish Football Forums Online
Samu Kytölä

12. Experiencing Multilingualism — the Elderly Becoming Marginalized?
Anne Pitkänen-Huhta, Marja Hujo

13. When One of Your Languages is not Recognized as a Language at all
Elina Tapio, Ritva Takkinen

Keywords: Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Multilingualism, Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis