J. Blommaert & S. Leppänen 
Dangerous Multilingualism 
Northern Perspectives on Order, Purity and Normality

Focuses on the endangering effects of language-ideological processes. This book looks at the challenges imposed by globalization and super-diversity on the nation state and its language situations and ideologies, and demonstrates how many of its problems rise from the tension between late-modern diversity and the (pre-)modernist responses to it.

Table of Content

Introduction Endangering Multilingualism; J.Blommaert , S.Leppanen & M.Spotti PART I: ORDER – DISORDER Finland’s Official Bilingualism – a Bed of Roses or of Procrustes?; O-P.Salo Linguistic Diversity as a Problem and a Resource – Multilingualism in European and Finnish Policy Documents; T.Nikula , S.Poyhonen , T.Saarinen & T.Kangasvieri Dealing with Increasing Linguistic Diversity in Schools – the Finnish Example; M.Suni & S.Latomaa Problematic Plurilingualism – Teachers’ Views; S.Voipio-Huovinen & M.Martin PART II: PURITY – IMPURITY Hard Currency or a Stigma – the Russian-Finnish Bilingualism Among Young Russian-speaking Immigrants in Finland; M.Lahteenmaki & M.Vanhala-Aniszewski Finnish Culture and Language Endangered – Language Ideological Debates on English in the Finnish Press from 1995 to 2007; S.Leppanen & P.Pahta Multilingualism in Nordic Cooperation – a View from the Margin; M.Martin The Dangers of Normativity – the Case of Minority Language Media; S.Pietikainen & H.Kelly-Holmes PART III: NORMALITY – ABNORMALITY Discourses of Proficiency and Normality – Endangering Aspects of English in an Individual’s Biography of Language Use; T.Raisanen Peer Normativity and Sanctioning of Linguistic Resources-in-use – on Non-Standard Englishes in Finnish Football Forums Online; S.Kytola Experiencing Multilingualism – the Elderly becoming Marginalized?; A.Pitkanen-Huhta & M.Hujo When One of Your Languages is not Recognised as a Language at All; E.Tapio & R.Takkinen

About the author

JAN BLOMMAERT Professor of Language, Culture and Globalization at Tilburg University, The Netherlands MARJA HUJO Teacher of English in Sastamala Community College, Finland TEIJA KANGASVIERI Research Coordinator in the Finnish Network for Language Education Policies at the Centre for Applied Language Studies (CALS) at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland HELEN KELLY-HOLMES Lecturer in Sociolinguistics and New Media at the University of Limerick, Ireland SAMU KYTOLA Junior Researcher at the Department of Languages, University of Jyväskylä, Finland SIRKKU LATOMAA Lecturer in Finnish in the School of Language, Translation and Literary Studies at the University of Tampere, Finland SIRPA LEPPANEN Professor of English at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland MIKA LAHTEENMAKI University Researcher in the Department of Languages at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland MAISA MARTIN Professor of Finnish as a second and foreign language at the Department of Languages at Jyväskylä University, Finland TARJA NIKULA Professor in the Centre for Applied Language Studies (CALS) at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland PAIVI PAHTA Professor of English at the University of Tampere, Finland SARI PIETIKAINEN Professor of Discourse Studies at the Department of Languages, University of Jyväskylä, Finland ANNE PITKANEN-HUHTA Professor of English and Head of the Department of Languages, University of Jyväskylä, Finland SARI POYHONEN works as a Senior Researcher (languageeducation policies) at the Centre for Applied Language Studies (CALS) at University of Jyväskylä, Finland TIINA RAISANEN Junior Researcher in the Department of Languages, University of Jyväskylä, Finland TAINA SAARINEN Researcher at the Centre for Applied Language Studies (CALS) at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland OLLI-PEKKA SALO Teacher of Swedish at the University of Jyväskylä Teacher Training School, Finland MASSIMILIANO SPOTTI Deputy Director of Babylon, Centre for Studies of the Multicultural Society at Tilburg University, the Netherlands MINNA SUNI Lecturer in Finnish Language at the Department of Languages, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and Postdoctoral Researcher (2011-2013) funded by the Academy of Finland RITVA TAKKINEN Professor of Finnish Sign Language at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland ELINA TAPIO University teacher in Finnish Sign Language in the Department of Languages at the University of Jyväskylä MARJATTA VANHALA-AANISZEWSKI Professor of Russian Language and Culture in the Department of Languages, University of Jyväskylä, Finland SANNA VOIPIO-HUOVINEN Ph D candidate of Finnish and Education at the University of Jyväskylä and at the University of Helsinki, Sweden