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dc.contributor.authorHiss, Florian
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-15T10:12:15Z
dc.date.available2024-01-15T10:12:15Z
dc.date.issued2023-11-15
dc.description.abstractThe chapter explores the multifaceted role of English in the complex and dynamic multilingual surrounding of Northern Norway, a region that has been linguistically diverse throughout history. Sámi languages and Kven have historical roots in the region and are today minoritized. More recently, linguistic diversity is affected by transnational migration, tourism, and global communication. The chapter builds on Deleuze and Guattari’s idea of rhizomatic connections. Instead of comparing sociolinguistic categories or domains, three cases of multilingual encounters are scrutinized with the aim to sketch a multiplicity of dynamic connections of linguistic practices and sociolinguistic relations within and across these. Findings show how seemingly diglossic practices – where the use of English and Norwegian keeps groups of speakers apart – encounter practices where such boundaries of languages and groups get completely blurred; how the use of English can mark both belonging and otherness at the top and bottom of workplace hierarchies; and how global English is conceived as more or less threatening to minoritized languages. The chapter argues for the importance of viewing multiplicities of connections and intersecting discourses rather than hierarchies, categories, and domains when studying the role of English in social contexts in the North.en_US
dc.identifier.citationHiss: English in Norway's multilingual North. A rhizomatic view on encounters with historical and transnational diversity. In: Peterson E, Beers Fägersten. English in the Nordic Countries: Connections, Tensions, and Everyday Realities, 2023. Routledge p. 165-184en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 2224454
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781003272687
dc.identifier.isbn9781032224688
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/32482
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherRouteledgeen_US
dc.relation.projectIDNorges forskningsråd: 236865en_US
dc.relation.projectIDNorges forskningsråd: 325039en_US
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dc.rights.holderCopyright 2023 The Author(s)en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Anvendt språkvitenskap: 012en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::Applied linguistics: 012en_US
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dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010en_US
dc.titleEnglish in Norway's multilingual North. A rhizomatic view on encounters with historical and transnational diversityen_US
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