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Title: | English in contemporary Sweden : perceptions, policies, and narrated practices | Authors: | Bolton, Kingsley Meierkord, Christiane |
Keywords: | DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology | Issue Date: | 2013 | Source: | Bolton, K., & Meierkord, C. (2013). English in contemporary Sweden : perceptions, policies, and narrated practices. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 17(1), 93-117. | Series/Report no.: | Journal of sociolinguistics | Abstract: | This paper compares trends in Sweden’s language planning and language policies, and particularly the rationale underlying recent government legislation, to actual language use at the ‘grass roots’ of society, in order to investigate the extent to which academic and official rationales are confirmed by observed language practices. The passing of the Swedish Language Act of 2009 followed debates in academia and the media which not infrequently characterised English as a major threat to the survival of Swedish. However, despite the strong belief in the utility of English widely held in Sweden, the Swedish language is the preferred language of Swedes as well as immigrants in most domains. These results reveal a contradiction between the arguments put forward by a number of academics, educators and journalists concerning the ‘threat’ of English, and the language practices of ordinary folk in their daily lives. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/93713 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/38397 |
ISSN: | 1360-6441 | DOI: | 10.1111/josl.12014 | Schools: | School of Humanities and Social Sciences | Rights: | © 2013 Blackwell Publishing Ltd. This is the author created version of a work that has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication by Journal of Sociolinguistics, Blackwell Publishing Ltd. It incorporates referee’s comments but changes resulting from the publishing process, such as copyediting, structural formatting, may not be reflected in this document. The published version is available at: [http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/josl.12014]. | Fulltext Permission: | open | Fulltext Availability: | With Fulltext |
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