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Can I read Sámi Language Mobility: Scales and Discourses of Multilingualism in a Polycentric Environment on EtoBox?
Sámi Language Mobility: Scales and Discourses of Multilingualism in a Polycentric Environment by Sari Pietikäinen is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Sámi Language Mobility: Scales and Discourses of Multilingualism in a Polycentric Environment about?
In a multilingual Lapland, globalization processes have various sociolinguistic e¤ects. A good example is a change in the functions and values of the indigenous Sa ́mi languages. The once solid community languages were pushed in the margins of the nation states in the early twentieth century. Today, Sa ́mi linguistic and other semiotic resources are used not only for communication and building an indigenous community, but they function also as a commodity in global music markets and tourism, or as a resource for creative identity performance. This kind of a sociolinguistic change calls for an investigation that overcomes the macro-micro gap and concepts that address movements, diversity, and multiplicity in this multilingual situation. To this end, I fuse ethnographic and discourse analytical approaches in an attempt to track movements and conditions of Sa ́mi resource mobility. The data examined in this article comprise multimodal discourse data (photographs, interviews, texts) and observations and recordings from ethnographic fieldwork in the North Calotte area of Lapland.
Who reads Sámi Language Mobility: Scales and Discourses of Multilingualism in a Polycentric Environment?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Social Sciences.
- Author
- Sari Pietikäinen
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences