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Language Policy Beyond the State

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Editors:
  1. Maarja Siiner

    1. Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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  2. Kadri Koreinik

    1. Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

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  3. Kara D. Brown

    1. Educational Studies, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA

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  • An up-to-date analysis of language policy as a multilayered process, both within and beyond the state
  • An overview of research methods that highlight the complexity of language policy research
  • Current and rigorous research brings an international perspective to the investigation and analysis of language policy in Estonia and beyond

Part of the book series: Language Policy (LAPO, volume 14)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introductory Chapter: Questioning Borders

    • Kara D. Brown, Kadri Koreinik, Maarja Siiner
    Pages 1-21

  3. Spatial Reconsiderations: State Decentered by Migration and Globalization

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. Priming Language Political Issues as Issues of State Security: A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis of Language Ideological Debates in Estonian Media Before and After the Ukrainian Crisis

      • Maarja Siiner, Svetlana L’nyavskiy-Ekelund
      Pages 25-44

    3. Doing Language Policy: Teasing Out the Tensions for Transnational Scholars in Estonian and Danish Higher Education

      • Josep Soler Carbonell, Merike Jürna
      Pages 45-60

    4. Swedishization or Internationalization? Negotiating the Common Language and Culture in a Swedish-Baltic Financial Institution

      • Maarja Siiner
      Pages 61-80

    5. Emerging Language Political Agency Among Estonian Native Speakers in Finland

      • Kadri Koreinik, Kristiina Praakli
      Pages 81-98

    6. Parental Attitudes and Family Conversational Strategies Shaping the Family Language Policies of Two Estonian-Finnish Families

      • Kristiina Teiss, Sirje Perendi
      Pages 99-122

    7. Young Swedish-Estonian Returnees to Estonia: Reflections on Family Language Policy and a Multilingual Upbringing

      • Anna Verschik, Colm James Doyle
      Pages 123-140

  4. Temporal Reconsiderations: State Decentered by Enduring Connections and New Patterns

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
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    2. Negotiating a Place for German in Estonia: Contemporary Functions, Attitudes and Policies

      • Heiko F. Marten
      Pages 143-162

    3. From Literary Languages to Dialectal Varieties to Microlanguages?: Historical Perspectives on Language Policy Towards South Estonian and Latgalian

      • Catherine Gibson
      Pages 163-182

    4. Policy Drag & Resiliency: Teachers’ Response to Voluntary Language Policy in Southeastern Estonia

      • Kara D. Brown
      Pages 183-200

    5. Official Language Policy as a Factor in Using Receptive Multilingualism Among Members of an Estonian and a Finnish Student Organization

      • Hanna-Ilona Härmävaara
      Pages 201-221

    6. Language as an Object of National Passion: Reflections from Estonia

      • Emilia PawÅ‚usz
      Pages 223-239

    7. Epilogue

      • Lenore A. Grenoble
      Pages 241-245
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About this book

Language Policy beyond the State invites readers to (re-)consider the ways language policy is constituted, taken up, and researched if we look within and past the state. Contributors to this edited volume draw attention to language policy as always in the making, focusing on agency, on-the-ground practices, and ideologies. The chapters of the book reveal how simultaneous, and at times contradicting, language policies exist within a state and explore the complex roles played by families, businesses, educational institutions, and media in generating and appropriating these policies. 


By moving away from language policy analysis concerned primarily with how official state policies address well-defined language problems, some of the contributions of the volume highlight how the problems themselves can be ideological artifacts or are discursively constructed in language ideological debates that are provoked by changes in the geopolitical situation in the region.  Using qualitative and descriptive research, the book uses Estonia as a setting to examine the ways historic and contemporary populations navigate language policies in both local and transnational spaces. As a whole, the collection speaks eloquently and powerfully to current efforts to understand and map the ways multiple institutions and individuals—not just the state—play an active role in forming and taking up language policies.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    Maarja Siiner

  • Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

    Kadri Koreinik

  • Educational Studies, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA

    Kara D. Brown

About the editors

Maarja Siiner, Ph.D., is a research affiliate at the University of Oslo, Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan, where she studied discourses on dementia and immigrants in the project Language and Communication in Multilingual Speakers with Dementia in Norway. She has previously served as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Copenhagen, Centre for Internationalization and Parallel Language Use, studying institutional responses to internationalization at the University of Copenhagen. Her previous research includes studies of language management in Swedish multinational companies operating in Estonia, carried out at Lund University and cross-country comparisons of the interrelatedness of language policy developments and the democratization and decentralization processes in Scandinavia and Baltics.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Language Policy Beyond the State

  • Editors: Maarja Siiner, Kadri Koreinik, Kara D. Brown

  • Series Title: Language Policy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52993-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-52991-2Published: 12 May 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85033-7Published: 08 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-52993-6Published: 04 May 2017

  • Series ISSN: 1571-5361

  • Series E-ISSN: 2452-1027

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 245

  • Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Educational Policy and Politics, Language Education, International Relations

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