The Swedish Language Council and English as a Lingua Franca

Josephson, Olle

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“…The debate on domain loss, after all, was more intensive around the period leading up to the Swedish Language Act of 2009 (Brock-Utne, 2007). Josephson, former head of the Swedish language council, offers a thorough account of this development in Swedish language policy dynamics (Josephson, 2014). A complementary account, not so much of the debate as such but of the parallel language status in Sweden, is provided by Salö and Josephson in their land report (Salö & Josephson,.…”

Section: Language Policies At Swedish Higher Education Institutionsmentioning

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The Englishization of Higher Education in Europe

2021

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The tension between monolingualism and multilingualism has left its mark on the cultural history of Europe. Current public and academic debates about the Englishization of higher education pitch proponents of the monolingual ideal of a common language that promotes communication against advocates of the maintenance of linguistic diversity that does more justice to the multicultural reality and enriches life. Notwithstanding the differences between European countries, the switch from an initially monolingual curriculum to a bilingual and sometimes multilingual curriculum in higher education has led to debates about the consequences of the Englishization for the quality of higher education, cultural identity, inequality between stakeholders and the opportunities to express concern about this process.

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Section: Language Policies At Swedish Higher Education Institutionsmentioning

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“…While this © Salö and CMDR. 2018 circumstance does not necessarily equate to being a deeply immersed insider with perspectives genuinely embedded into the value systems of LPP (see Josephson, 2014 for a true insider's account in that regard), it points to matters of working within a language ideological consensus. This involves reproducing accounts that one knows will be positively sanctioned by the field, after having acquired shared dispositions to a particular language problem.…”

Section: Science and Politics And Borderlandsmentioning

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Seeing the point from which you see what you see: An essay on epistemic reflexivity in language research

Salo

2018

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This essay deals with epistemic issues in language research, focusing particularly on the field of language planning and policy (LPP). It outlines Pierre Bourdieu's principle of epistemic reflexivity as a device for understanding what the view of the research object owes to the researcher's past and present position in social space. I hold that developing such an understanding is particularly vital for LPP scholars, by virtue of the ways in which the objects investigated here tend to linger in the borderlands between science and politics. Accordingly, the essay unearths the philosophical roots of epistemic reflexivity and highlights some of its implications in the research practice with examples from Swedish LPP research. It also examines the value of a reflexive stance in interviews as a way of pinpointing the relevance of epistemic reflexivity in every moment of the scholarly investigation. In conclusion, the argument is that since epistemic reflexivity is a useful device for any critical researcher who wishes to grasp the knowledge he or she produces, it is so also for language researchers, and particularly so in relation to the ideologically normative practices of LPP scholarship. Therefore, a reflexive gaze is a pivotal driver for yielding better language research.

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“…While this 30 SALÖ © Salö and CMDR. 2018 circumstance does not necessarily equate to being a deeply immersed insider with perspectives genuinely embedded into the value systems of LPP (see Josephson, 2014 for a true insider's account in that regard), it points to matters of working within a language ideological consensus. This involves reproducing accounts that one knows will be positively sanctioned by the field, after having acquired shared dispositions to a particular language problem.…”

Section: Science and Politics And Borderlandsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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On the basis of genetic classification, Edoid (of the Bini people of Nigeria) is conceived as an offshoot of Benue-Congo earlier than Yoruboid (of the Ife people of Nigeria). However, the reverse is the case when viewed from the sociolinguistic platforms of population, prestige and power. Thus, in 2004, the Edoid patriarch of Bini launched a biography, wherein he narrated the Bini origin of the Ife monarchy. This sparked a barrage of unguarded responses from both sides of the controversy, largely centred on different interpretations to oral tradition. By exploring language as custodian of prehistory, this paper makes a linguistic contribution to the continuing debate about which predates the other between Ife (Yoruboid) and Bini (Edoid) of southwestern Nigeria. It pieces together evidence of cognate lexical simplification, patterns of cognate counting systems, sound inventory, and decadence of vowel harmony, which support the chronological pre-eminence of Edoid over Yoruboid; thus, calling for archaeological, anthropological and geographical inspection.

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The Swedish Language Council and English as a Lingua Franca

Cited by 5 publications

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The Englishization of Higher Education in Europe

The Englishization of Higher Education in Europe

Seeing the point from which you see what you see: An essay on epistemic reflexivity in language research

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