Does The Nordic Region Speak With A Forked Tongue

Author : Karin Arvidsson
Publisher : Nordic Council of Ministers
ISBN 13 : 928932404X
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Does the Nordic Region Speak with a Forked Tongue? written by Karin Arvidsson and published by Nordic Council of Ministers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is it impossible to talk Swedish while queuing for a hamburger on a Friday night in Helsinki without getting into a fight, despite Swedish being an official language in Finland? The Queen of Denmark, the Government Minister, the Nobel Prize winner and the young editor-in-chief all have an intense relationship with language. In this book, they - along with a number of other people with a keen interest in language - talk about how language has shaped their lives, both private and professional. Language affects people - it engages and provokes. And power lies in language. Icelanders and Finns only have access to translated and interpreted material if they have not learned a Scandinavian language. Does the way we handle language in Nordic collaboration mean that we are creating ademocratic deficit? How are we affected by tradition on the one hand and by the accelerating change brought about by globalisation on the other? Is it a question of generational boundaries? Would young people in Nordic countries rather speak English than Norwegian? These are some of the issues touched upon in this book.

Author : Elizabeth Peterson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003805094
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English in the Nordic Countries written by Elizabeth Peterson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 860 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book FBIS Daily Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Travis D. Boyce
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1646420039
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historicizing Fear written by Travis D. Boyce and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2020-02-21 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historicizing Fear is a historical interrogation of the use of fear as a tool to vilify and persecute groups and individuals from a global perspective, offering an unflinching look at racism, fearful framing, oppression, and marginalization across human history.The book examines fear and Othering from a historical context, providing a better understanding of how power and oppression is used in the present day. Contributors ground their work in the theory of Othering—the reductive action of labeling a person as someone who belongs to a subordinate social category defined as the Other—in relation to historical events, demonstrating that fear of the Other is universal, timeless, and interconnected. Chapters address the music of neo-Nazi white power groups, fear perpetuated through the social construct of black masculinity in a racially hegemonic society, the terror and racial cleansing in early twentieth-century Arkansas, the fear of drug-addicted Vietnam War veterans, the creation of fear by the Tang Dynasty, and more. Timely, provocative, and rigorously researched, Historicizing Fear shows how the Othering of members of different ethnic groups has been used to propagate fear and social tension, justify state violence, and prevent groups or individuals from gaining equality. Broadening the context of how fear of the Other can be used as a propaganda tool, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of history, anthropology, political science, popular culture, critical race issues, social justice, and ethnic studies, as well as the general reader concerned with the fearful framing prevalent in politics. Contributors: Quaylan Allen, Melanie Armstrong, Brecht De Smet, Kirsten Dyck, Adam C. Fong, Jeff Johnson, Łukasz Kamieński, Guy Lancaster, Henry Santos Metcalf, Julie M. Powell, Jelle Versieren

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136809848
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nordic Countries in the Early Cold War, 1944-51 written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lars S. Vikør
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nordic Languages written by Lars S. Vikør and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arend Lijphart
Publisher : Algora Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0875861687
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Electoral and Party Systems in the Nordic Countries written by Arend Lijphart and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a book that all scholars of electoral systems or electoral history will need to read, and most will want to own. Much of the historical material reported is not available anywhere else in English, and much of it appears to be first-time reports of primary materials. Quite readable and very well-organized." -Cambridge Univ. Press referee

Author : Kaarle Nordenstreng
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nordic/SADCC Media Seminar Proceedings written by Kaarle Nordenstreng and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Oskar Bandle
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110171495
Total Pages : 1194 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nordic Languages written by Oskar Bandle and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2002 with total page 1194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Dominika Skrzypek
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004463682
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diachrony of Definiteness in North Germanic written by Dominika Skrzypek and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an account of the rise of definite and indefinite articles in Danish, Swedish and Icelandic, as documented in a choice of extant texts from 1200-1550. These three North Germanic languages show different development patterns in the rise of articles, despite the common origin, but each reveals interdependencies between the two processes. The matter is approached from both a quantitative and a qualitative perspective. The statistical analysis provides an improved overview on article grammaticalization, focusing on the factors at the basis of such process. The in-depth qualitative analysis of longer text passages places the crucial stage of the definite article grammaticalization with the so-called indirect anaphoric reference.