English In The Nordic Countries

Author : Elizabeth Peterson,Kristy Beers Fägersten
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781003805090

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English in the Nordic Countries by Elizabeth Peterson,Kristy Beers Fägersten Pdf

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.

Author : Anna Kristina Hultgren,Frans Gregersen,Jacob Thøgersen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027269591

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English in Nordic Universities by Anna Kristina Hultgren,Frans Gregersen,Jacob Thøgersen Pdf

This volume brings together theoretical perspectives and empirical studies on the ongoing Englishization of Nordic universities. A core objective is to contrast and address the gap between ideological representations of this phenomenon and the ways in which it unfolds in the practices on the ground. The book provides perspectives from five Nordic countries: Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland, with one chapter from each country focusing on ideologies and another on practices. The book is intended to provide an up-to-date resource on the internationalization and Englishization of Nordic universities for scholars, policy makers and anyone wishing to gain an overview of current issues in the field.

Author : Lars S. Vikør
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Language planning
ISBN : UOM:39015032479423

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The Nordic Languages by Lars S. Vikør Pdf

Author : Leo Pekkala
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Scandinavia
ISBN : 951634674X

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Lesser Nations by Leo Pekkala Pdf

Tiivistelmä.

Author : B. J. Epstein
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3039118498

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Northern Lights by B. J. Epstein Pdf

This volume is a collection of essays based on papers given at the Nordic Translation Conference, which took place in London in March 2008. The purpose of the collection is twofold. First, it serves to place the Nordic languages firmly into the field of translation studies, where hitherto little research has focused on the Nordic region; the essays include many Nordic-specific studies and ideas. Second, the book presents research and conclusions which are relevant to translation studies in all languages and cultures. Therefore this volume, which covers a wide range of Nordic languages and both literary and non-literary topics, is unambiguously pertinent to the Nordic countries while also being universally valuable.

Author : Even Hovdhaugen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Linguistics
ISBN : UOM:39015053535269

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The History of Linguistics in the Nordic Countries by Even Hovdhaugen Pdf

Author : Natallia Bahdanovich Hanssen,Heidi Harju-Luukkainen,Christel Sundqvist
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781003807896

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Inclusion and Special Needs Education for Immigrant Students in the Nordic Countries by Natallia Bahdanovich Hanssen,Heidi Harju-Luukkainen,Christel Sundqvist Pdf

Inclusion for immigrant students with special educational needs (SEN) is a neglected area of research. This edited volume addresses this problem, providing up-to-date insights into the provided support and special needs education (SNE) for immigrant students in different contexts of the Nordic countries. This important book explores the diversity of student experiences, addressing both compulsory schools and vocational education, and examines how different Nordic countries conceptualise and approach support and SNE for immigrant students. Readers will get an opportunity to read various studies that address gaps in the realisation of inclusion and special need education. This book initiates a dialogue on generating new knowledge, approaches, and methods to expand the flexibility necessary to implement a fully inclusive education. The book offers research that includes strong theoretical and practical frameworks, interviews, interventions, assessments, case studies as well as offers future directions for inclusive and special needs education. By exploring the process of inclusion and special needs education in the Nordic countries, this book is an essential read for those who intend to deepen their understanding and to enact inclusion, and the development of special needs education for immigrant students.

Author : Alan Swanson,Egil Törnqvist
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 904200326X

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Europe, the Nordic Countries by Alan Swanson,Egil Törnqvist Pdf

ISBN 9042003170 (paperback) NLG 60.00 From the contents: Scandinavian or Nordic? (Egil Tornqvist).- The position of the Scandinavian languages in a unified Europe (Harry Perridon).- East is east and west is west: on the cultural identity of the Finns (Paivi Schot-Saikku).- Echoes from the North in the heart of Europe: public and published opinion about Scandinavia in Belgium (Godelieve Laureys and Michael Maertens).

Author : Andrew Linn,Neil Bermel,Gibson Ferguson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614515517

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Attitudes towards English in Europe by Andrew Linn,Neil Bermel,Gibson Ferguson Pdf

The status of English in Europe is changing, and this book offers a series of studies of attitudes to English today. Until recently English was often seen as an opportunity for Europeans to take part in the global market, but increasingly English is viewed as a threat to the national languages of Europe, and the idea that Europeans are equally at home in English is being challenged. This book will appeal to anyone interested in global English.

Author : Andrew Linn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781614518952

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Investigating English in Europe by Andrew Linn Pdf

This book is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in researching or just learning more about the changing role and status of English across Europe. The status of English today is explained in its historical context before the authors present some of the key debates and ideas relating to the challenge English poses for learners, teachers, and language policy makers.

Author : Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir,Hafdís Ingvarsdóttir
Publisher : Springer
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319678047

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Language Development across the Life Span by Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir,Hafdís Ingvarsdóttir Pdf

This book offers insights from a seven-year study into the impact of English as an International Language at a national level, from the effect of rich English input on a previously monolingual people’s linguistic repertoire to its effect on the situated language use demanded of speakers who find themselves in a new linguistic environment for which they have not been prepared. The changes described in the book have occurred in a speech community that identifies strongly with the local language, but finds itself increasingly having to use another language to perform daily functions in education and work. Findings describe how the official language and educational policies have not addressed this new linguistic ecology of Iceland. The findings of these studies have larger international practical, educational, empirical, and theoretical implications and should be relevant to anyone interested in in the impact of English as an International Language.

Author : Oskar Bandle,Lennart Elmevik,Gun Widmark
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1194 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 311017149X

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The Nordic Languages by Oskar Bandle,Lennart Elmevik,Gun Widmark Pdf

The handbook is not tied to a particular methodology but keeps in principle to a pronounced methodological pluralism, encompassing all aspects of actual methodology. Moreover it combines diachronic with synchronic-systematic aspects, longitudinal sections with cross-sections (periods such as Old Norse, transition from Old Norse to Early Modern Nordic, Early Modern Nordic 1550-1800 and so on). The description of Nordic language history is built upon a comprehensive collection of linguistic data; it consists of more than 200 articles written by a multitude of authors from Scandinavian and German and English speaking countries. The organization of the book combines a central part on the detailed chronological developments and some chapters of a more general character: chapters on theory and methodology in the beginning and on overlapping spatio-temporal topics in the end.

Author : Stewart. E Fraser,Barbara. J Fraser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351716703

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Scandinavian Education by Stewart. E Fraser,Barbara. J Fraser Pdf

This title was first published in 1973.

Author : Nely Keinänen,Per Sivefors
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350251274

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Reconstructing Shakespeare in the Nordic Countries by Nely Keinänen,Per Sivefors Pdf

Examining the changing reception of Shakespeare in the Nordic countries between 1870 and 1940, this follow-up volume to Disseminating Shakespeare in the Nordic Countries focuses on the broad movements of national revivalism that took place around the turn of the century as Finland and Norway, and later Iceland, were gaining their independence. The first part of the book demonstrates how translations and productions of Shakespeare were key in such movements, as Shakespeare was appropriated for national and political purposes. The second part explores how the role of Shakespeare in the Nordic countries was partly transformed in the 1920s and 1930s as a new social system emerged, and then as the rise of fascism meant that European politics cast a long shadow on the Nordic countries and substantially affected the reception of Shakespeare. Contributors trace the impact of early translations of Shakespeare's works into Icelandic, the role of women in the early transmission of Shakespeare in Finland and the first Shakespeare production at the Finnish Theatre, and the productions of Shakespeare's plays at the Norwegian National Theatre between 1899 and the outbreak of the Great War. In Part Two, they examine the political overtones of the 1916 Shakespeare celebrations in Hamlet's 'hometown' of Elsinore, Henrik Rytter's translations of 23 Shakespeare plays into Norwegian to assess their role in his poetics and in Scandinavian literature, the importance of the 1937 production of Hamlet in Kronborg Castle starring Laurence Olivier, and the role of Shakespeare in general and Hamlet in particular in Swedish Nobel laureate Eyvind Johnson's early work where it became a symbol of post-war passivity and rootlessness.

Author : Alexander Bergs,Laurel J. Brinton
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110251609

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English Historical Linguistics. Volume 2 by Alexander Bergs,Laurel J. Brinton Pdf