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Workplace multilingualism in shifting contexts: A historical case

Language in society, 2017-11, Vol.46 (5), p.697-718 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 ;Cambridge University Press, 2017 ;info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ;ISSN: 0047-4045 ;ISSN: 1469-8013 ;EISSN: 1469-8013 ;DOI: 10.1017/S0047404517000628

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Title:
Workplace multilingualism in shifting contexts: A historical case
Author: Hiss, Florian
Subjects: 19th century ; Anvendt språkvitenskap: 012 ; Applied linguistics: 012 ; Arbeidsplasser / Workplaces ; Assimilation ; Bilingualism ; Capital ; Copper ; Diskursanalyse / Discourse analysis ; Economic history ; Economic policy ; Foreign labor ; Historical development ; Humaniora: 000 ; Humanities: 000 ; Industrial development ; Labor migration ; Language diversity ; Language history ; Linguistics: 010 ; Migrant workers ; Migrants ; Mining ; Multiculturalism & pluralism ; Multilingualism ; Norwegian language ; Policy making ; Politics ; Positioning ; Sociolinguistics ; Sosiolingvistikk / Sociolinguistics ; Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010 ; VDP ; Vested interests ; Work environment ; Workplaces
Is Part Of: Language in society, 2017-11, Vol.46 (5), p.697-718
Description: This article investigates linguistic diversity, migration, and labour in the case of a nineteenth-century copper mine in the multilingual northern periphery of Norway. Taking a historical perspective on workplace multilingualism, it reveals the dynamic relationships between the economic interests and policy-making of an industrial enterprise and the political and sociolinguistic development in a multilingual region, at a time when national authorities introduced assimilation policies. Owned and managed by British industrialists, the mine recruited almost exclusively migrant workers to a remote fjord in the Norwegian periphery, many of them Kven from northern Finland and Sweden. In a multi-layered approach, the study sketches multilingual work practices, policy-making, and the discursive positioning of diversity, and explores the company's management of the relationships between capital, community, and nation-state. It reveals the company's flexible approach towards diversity governed by economic interest. (Workplace multilingualism, mining, Kven, Norway, historical)*
Publisher: New York, USA: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0047-4045
ISSN: 1469-8013
EISSN: 1469-8013
DOI: 10.1017/S0047404517000628
Source: ProQuest One Psychology
NORA Norwegian Open Research Archives
ProQuest Central

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Workplace multilingualism in shifting contexts: A historical case

Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 ;Cambridge University Press, 2017 ;info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ;ISSN: 0047-4045 ;ISSN: 1469-8013 ;EISSN: 1469-8013 ;DOI: 10.1017/S0047404517000628

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