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Linguistic Diversity as a Problem and a Resource — Multilingualism in European and Finnish Policy Documents

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Dangerous Multilingualism

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Societies in Europe and across the world are under constant pressure to cope with increasing multilingualism and multiculturalism. This development has its roots in different global and local societal and economic processes. On the one hand, globalization is putting pressure on the economy in that more varied language resources are needed in society. On the other hand, immigration is constantly on the increase, giving rise to what Vertovec (2006) has termed super-diversity, a ‘condition distinguished by a dynamic interplay of variables among an increased number of new, small and scattered, multiple-origin, transnationally connected, socio-economically differentiated and legally stratified immigrants’.

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  1. University of Tilburg, The Netherlands

    Jan Blommaert

  2. University of Jyväskylä, Finland

    Sirpa Leppänen  & Tiina Räisänen  & 

  3. University of Tampere, Finland

    Päivi Pahta

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Nikula, T., Saarinen, T., Pöyhönen, S., Kangasvieri, T. (2012). Linguistic Diversity as a Problem and a Resource — Multilingualism in European and Finnish Policy Documents. In: Blommaert, J., Leppänen, S., Pahta, P., Räisänen, T. (eds) Dangerous Multilingualism. Language and Globalization. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137283566_3

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