DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

Language Contacts and Discourses in the Far North

Tiina Räisänen editor Maria Frick editor Jussi Ylikoski editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG

Published:15th Dec '23

Should be back in stock very soon

This paperback is available in another edition too:

Language Contacts and Discourses in the Far North cover

This open access book sheds light on 21st-Century multilingualism in the Far North of Europe – Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Estonia – an area with multifaceted contacts between many Uralic and Indo-European languages. These contacts are taking new forms as migration and English as the lingua franca are changing the linguistic situation remarkably. The national languages dominate the life of most inhabitants, while the use of indigenous Saami languages, old minority languages, and the languages of new immigrants is limited to certain areas or domains. This volume takes a close look at multilingual individuals and discusses how their lives are affected by different languages.

ISBN: 9783031429811

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

359 pages

1st ed. 2023