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Record Nr.

UNINA9910493742403321

Autore

Kessler Stephan

Titolo

The social status of languages in Finland and Lithuania : a plurimethodological empirical survey on language climate change / / Stephan Kessler, Marko Pantermöller (editors)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bern, : Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group, 2020

Berlin : , : Peter Lang, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

3-631-80743-0

3-631-80742-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 pages)

Collana

Sprachkönnen und sprachbewusstheit  in europa = language competence and  language awareness in europe ; ; 11

Disciplina

306.449485

Soggetti

Language policy - Finland

Finland

Lithuania

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Finland and Lithuania stand for different ways of dealing with societal multilingualism and minority issues. However, in recent years, questions of language policy had been discussed more controversially in both countries. Thus our detailed surveys on Finland and Lithuania focused on how different population groups think about the lingual situation there. This publication presents the researchers’ results from between 2014 and 2016 regarding the attitudes towards the minority and majority languages. Key to the research was an especially developed methodological mixture, including the matched-guise technique. The surveys’ final reports to the German Research Foundation (DFG) are followed by contributions that give more details on the legal status of the languages in Finland and Lithuania or describe the specific features of urban multilingualism there.