English in the Nordic Countries

Connections, Tensions, and Everyday Realities
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-22467-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 385 g

People in the Nordic states – Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland – rank as among the most proficient speakers of English in the world. In this unique volume, international experts explore how this came to be, what English usage and integration looks like in different spheres of society and the economy in these countries, and the implications of this linguistic phenomenon for language attitudes and identity, for the region at large, and for English in Europe and around the world. Led by Elizabeth Peterson and Kristy Beers Fägersten, contributors provide a historical overview to the subject, synthesize the latest research, illustrate the roles of English with original case studies from diverse communities and everyday settings, and offer transnational insights critically and in conversation with the situation in other Nordic states. This comprehensive text is the first book of its kind and will be of interest to advanced students and researchers of World/Global Englishes and English as a lingua franca, language contact and dialect studies/language varieties, language policy, multilingualism, sociolinguistics, and Nordic/Scandinavian and European studies.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Peterson, Elizabeth

Beers Fägersten, Kristy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. English in the Nordic countries: An introduction

Elizabeth Peterson and Kristy Beers Fägersten

Part I: Background and critical perspectives

Chapter 2. The role of English in the Nordic language system

Johan Strang

Chapter 3. Shifting connections between English and the languages of the Nordic region

Elizabeth Peterson

Chapter 4. Anglicization of the languages of the Nordic countries: Popular culture and everyday discourse

Kristy Beers Fägersten

Chapter 5. Language contact and language change: Impact on the languages of the Nordic countries

Helga Hilmisdóttir and Elizabeth Peterson

Chapter 6. Beyond threat or opportunity: English and language ideological tensions in the Nordic countries

Janus Mortensen

Part II: English in different settings

Chapter 7. Parallelingualism, translanguaging, and English-medium instruction in Nordic higher education

BethAnne Paulsrud and Una Cunningham

Chapter 8. English in the Nordic workplace: Practices, policies, and ideologies

Dorte Lønsmann

Chapter 9. English in Norway’s multilingual North: A rhizomatic view on encounters with historical and transnational diversity

Florian Hiss

Chapter 10. Metapragmatics of "bad" English in Finnish social media

Samu Kytölä

Chapter 11. English in Nordic multilingual families: Couple and family language practices

Kaisa S. Pietikäinen and Louisa Gühr

Chapter 12. English in the Nordic countries: Conclusions

Elizabeth Peterson and Kristy Beers Fägersten

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth Peterson is a senior university lecturer in the Department of Languages at the University of Helsinki. She is a sociolinguist who specializes in variation, language contact, language attitudes, and ideologies. An American migrant to Finland, she is especially interested in the dynamics of multilingualism, language rights, and language change.

Kristy Beers Fägersten is Professor of English Linguistics at the School of Culture and Education at Södertörn University, Sweden. Her research disciplines include pragmatics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and conversation analysis. Her publications feature analyses of the language of media and popular culture, with a special focus on language play, humor, and swearing.