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Dangerous multilingualism : Northern perspectives on order, purity and normality
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Dangerous multilingualism : Northern perspectives on order, purity and normality

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Edited by Jan Blommaert, Sirpa Leppänen, Päivi Pahta and Tiina Räisänen.

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Endangering multilingualism / Jan Blommaert, Sirpa Leppänen and Massimiliano Spotti
PART I: ORDER - DISORDER
Finland's official bilingualism : a bed of roses or of procrustes? / Olli-Pekka Salo
Linguistic diversity as a problem and a resource : multilingualism in European and Finnish policy documents / Tarja Nikula, Taina Saarinen, Sari Pözhönen and Teija Kangasvieri
Dealing with increasing linguistic diversity in schools : the Finnish example / Minna Suni and Sirku Latomaa
Problematic plurilingualism : teachers' views / Sanna Voipio-Huovinen and Marjatta Martin
PART II: PURITY - IMPURITY
Hard currency or a stigma : the Russian-Finnish bilingualism among young Russian-speaking immigrants in Finland / Mika Lähteenmäki and Marjatta Vanhala-Aniszewski
Finnish culture and language endangered : language ideological debates on English in the Finnish press from 1995 to 2007 / Sirpa Leppänen and Päivi Pahta
Multilingualism in Nordic cooperation : a view from the margin / Maisa Martin
The dangers of normativity : the case of minority language media / Sari Pietikäinen and Helen Kelly-Holmes
PART III: NORMALITY - ABNORMALITY
Discourses of proficiency and normality : endangering aspects of English in an individual's biography of language use / Tiina Räisäinen
Peer normativity and sanctioning of linguistic resources-in-use on non-standard Englishes in Finnish football forums online / Samu Kytölä
Experiencing multilingualism : the elderly becoming marginalized? / Anne Pitkänen-Huhta and Marja Hujo
When one of your languages is not recognized as a language at all / Elina Tapio and Ritva Takkinen.

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