Language policy beyond the state / Maarja Siiner, Kadri Koreinik, Kara D. Brown.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Siiner, Maarja, editor.

Koreinik, Kadri, editor.

Brown, Kara D., editor.

Series:

Language policy ; v. 14.

Language policy ; volume 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language policy--Political aspects.

Language policy.

Language policy--Political aspects--Finland.

Language policy--Political aspects--Estonia.

Finnish language--Political aspects.

Finnish language.

Estonian language--Political aspects.

Estonian language.

Estonia.

Finland.

Physical Description:

xii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017]

Summary:

Language Policy beyond the State invites readers to (re-)consider the ways language policy is constituted, taken up, and researched if we look within and past the state. Contributors to this edited volume draw attention to language policy as always in the making, focusing on agency, on-the-ground practices, and ideologies. The chapters of the book reveal how simultaneous, and at times contradicting, language policies exist within a state and explore the complex roles played by families, businesses, educational institutions, and media in generating and appropriating these policies. By moving away from language policy analysis concerned primarily with how official state policies address well-defined language problems, some of the contributions of the volume highlight how the problems themselves can be ideological artifacts or are discursively constructed in language ideological debates that are provoked by changes in the geopolitical situation in the region. Using qualitative and descriptive research, the book uses Estonia as a setting to examine the ways historic and contemporary populations navigate language policies in both local and transnational spaces. As a whole, the collection speaks eloquently and powerfully to current efforts to understand and map the ways multiple institutions and individuals--not just the state--play an active role in forming and taking up language policies. .

Contents:

Introductory chapter: questioning borders

Part I. Spatial reconsiderations: state decentered by migration and globalization

Priming language political issues as issues of state security: a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of language ideological debates in Estonian media before and after the Ukrainian crisis

Doing language policy: teasing out the tensions for transnational scholars in Estonian and Danish higher education

Swedishization or internationalization? Negotiating the common language and culture in a Swedish-Baltic financial institution

Emerging language political agency among Estonian native speakers in Finland

Parental attitudes and family conversational strategies shaping the family language policies of two Estonian-Finnish families

Young Swedish-Estonian returnees to Estonia: reflections on family language policy and a multilingual upbringing

Part II. Temporal reconsiderations: state decentered by enduring connections and new patterns

Negotiating a place for German in Estonia: contemporary functions, attitudes and policies

From literary languages to dialectal varieties to microlanguages?: Historical perspectives on language policy towards South Estonian and Latgalian

Policy drag & resiliency: teachers' response to voluntary language policy in southeastern Estonia

Official language policy as a factor in using receptive multilingualism among members of an Estonian and a Finnish student organization

Language as an object of national passion: reflections from Estonia

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

3319529919

9783319529912

OCLC:

967372376