Tove Skutnabb-Kangas

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Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas.jpg
Born (1940-07-06) July 6, 1940 (age 81)
Helsinki, Finland
Known forLinguicism
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
DisciplineLinguist
Sub-disciplineMultilingualism, linguistic rights
Institutions
  • University of Helsinki
  • Roskilde University

Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (born on July 6, 1940 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish linguist and educator. She is known for coining the term linguicism to refer to discrimination based on language.

Life[]

After receiving school education in Helsinki she worked for a short time at the teacher training college. In 1967 and 1968 she was in the United States, where she worked at the Department of Nordic Languages at Harvard. After that she worked briefly as a teacher in Helsinki. Since 1970 she has worked as a scientist at universities in Finland and Denmark. In 1976 she obtained her first doctorate in Helsinki;[1] The subject of her doctorate is bilingualism. From 1995 to 2000 she taught at Roskilde University, where she was a guest researcher from 1979 to 2007. Since then she has been emeritus.[2]

The topic of her work is primarily the study of the conditions of bilingualism. At the beginning of the 1980s she developed the concept of linguicism, with which she summarizes the discrimination of minority languages. She criticizes the neglect of children who speak mother tongues that are foreign to the country where they live (for example Turkish children in Germany) as well as the devaluation of bilingualism. Kangas defined linguicism as the "ideologies and structures which are used to legitimate, effectuate, and reproduce unequal division of power and resources (both material and non-material) between groups which are defined on the basis of language".[3]

In 2000 a book was published with the title "Rights to language: equity, power and education; celebrating the 60th birthday of Tove Skutnabb-Kangas" by Robert Phillipson.[4]

In 2003, she and Aina Moll won the Linguapax Prize, awarded by Linguapax International.[1]

Works[]

  • Bilingualism or not - the education of minorities. Multilingual Matters. 1981. ISBN 0-905028-17-1.
  • Minority education: from shame to struggle. Multilingual Matters. 1988. ISBN 1853590037.
  • Language, Literacy and Minorities. The Minority Rights Group. 1990. ISBN 0946690782.
  • Linguistic Human Rights. Over-coming linguistic discrimination. Contributions to the Sociology of Language 67. Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 3-11-014878-1. (478 pages, Paperback).
  • Multilingualism for All. Series European Studies on Multilingualism. Swets & Zeitlinger. January 1995. ISBN 90-265-1423-9.
  • Language: A Right and a Resource. Approaching Linguistic Human Rights. Central European University Press. January 1999. ISBN 963-9116-64-5.
  • Linguistic genocide in education ? or worldwide diversity and human rights?. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 2000. ISBN 0-8058-3468-0.

Bibliography[]

  • Rights to Language: Equity, Power, and Education. Celebrating the 60th Birthday of Tove Skutnabb-Kangas. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • "2003 Award: Aina Moll, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas". Linguapax International. 2016-12-14. Retrieved 2018-12-17.

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "2003 Award". Linguapax International. 2016-12-14. Retrieved 2018-12-17.
  2. ^ TOVE Anita SKUTNABB-KANGAS dr.phil.
  3. ^ Quoted in Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove, and Phillipson, Robert, "'Mother Tongue': The Theoretical and Sociopolitical Construction of a Concept." In Ammon, Ulrich (ed.) (1989). Status and Function of Languages and Language Varieties, p. 455. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter & Co. ISBN 3-11-011299-X.
  4. ^ Phillipson, Robert (2000). Rights to language: equity, power and education; celebrating the 60th birthday of Tove Skutnabb-Kangas. ISBN 978-0-8058-3835-0.

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