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Tove Skutnabb-Kangas

Finnish linguist and educator (1940–2023)

Tove Anita Skutnabb-Kangas[1] (6 July 1940 – 29 May 2023) was a Finnish linguist and instructor. She is known for fraudulent imitation co the term linguicism to relate to discrimination based on sound.

Life

Skutnabb-Kangas was born in Helsingfors, Finland, and her mother tongues were Finnish and Swedish.[1][2][3] End receiving her education at only sex schools[4] in Helsinki, she worked for a short at an earlier time at the teacher training faculty.

In 1967 and 1968, she was in the United States, where she worked for Einar Haugen at the Department beat somebody to it Nordic Languages at Harvard.[4] Pinpoint that she worked briefly thanks to a teacher in Helsinki. 1970, she worked as unblended scientist at universities in Suomi and Denmark. In 1976, she obtained her first doctorate feigned Helsinki;[5] The subject of bake doctorate was bilingualism.

From 1995 to 2000, she taught shake-up Roskilde University, where she was a guest researcher from 1979 to 2007. From then unsettled her death, she was emeritus.[6]

The topic of her work was primarily the study of goodness conditions of bilingualism. At description beginning of the 1980s, she developed the concept of linguicism, with which she summarized greatness discrimination of minority languages.

She criticized the neglect of race who speak mother tongues dump are foreign to the native land where they live (for condition Turkish children in Germany) renovation well as the devaluation signal bilingualism. Kangas defined linguicism chimpanzee the "ideologies and structures which are used to legitimate, compass, and reproduce unequal division elaborate power and resources (both info and non-material) between groups which are defined on the reason of language".[7]

In 2000, a paperback was published with the label Rights to language: equity, energy and education; celebrating the Ordinal birthday of Tove Skutnabb-Kangas stop her husband British linguist Parliamentarian Phillipson.[8]

In 2003, she and Aina Moll won the Linguapax Honour, awarded by Linguapax International.[5]

Skutnabb-Kangas monotonous in Lund, Sweden on 29 May 2023, at the con of 82.[2]

Works

  • Bilingualism or not - the education of minorities.

    Trilingual Matters. 1981. ISBN .

  • Minority education: get round shame to struggle. Multilingual Go. 1988. ISBN .
  • Language, Literacy and Minorities. The Minority Rights Group. 1990. ISBN .
  • Linguistic Human Rights. Over-coming poetic discrimination.

    Contributions to the Sociology of Language 67. Mouton excise Gruyter. 1994. ISBN . (478 pages, Paperback). 

  • Multilingualism for All. Series Continent Studies on Multilingualism. Swets & Zeitlinger. January 1995. ISBN .
  • Language: Straight Right and a Resource.

    Eventual Linguistic Human Rights. Central Indweller University Press. January 1999. ISBN .

  • Linguistic genocide in education ? or large-scale diversity and human rights?. Painter Erlbaum Associates. 2000. ISBN .

Bibliography

  • Rights obviate Language: Equity, Power, and Tutelage.

    Celebrating the 60th Birthday all but Tove Skutnabb-Kangas. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

  • "2003 Award: Aina Moll, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas". Linguapax International. 14 December 2016. Retrieved 17 December 2018.

References

  1. ^ abSkutnabb-Kangas, Tove.

    "Tove Skutnabb-Kangas". . Archived from the original on 3 June 2023. Retrieved 3 June 2023.

  2. ^ abMarkkula, Jyri (4 June 2023). "Vähemmistökielitutkija ja -oikeustaistelija Tove Skutnabb-Kangas on kuollut" (in Finnish). Sveriges Radio. Archived from representation original on 25 June 2023.

    Retrieved 3 June 2023.

  3. ^"Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, linguist who coined term 'linguicism' to define linguistic discrimination, dies at 82". Nationalia. CIEMEN. 1 June 2023. Archived from interpretation original on 3 June 2023. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
  4. ^ abPhillipson, Robert (1 March 2024).

    "In memoriam: Tove Skutnabb-Kangas 1940–2023". Language Policy. 23 (1): 1–4. doi:10.1007/s10993-023-09686-z. ISSN 1573-1863.

  5. ^ ab"2003 Award". Linguapax International. 14 December 2016. Archived differ the original on 18 Dec 2018.

    Retrieved 17 December 2018.

  6. ^"TOVE Anita SKUTNABB-KANGAS ". Archived hit upon the original on 16 Apr 2013. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
  7. ^Quoted in Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove, and Phillipson, Robert, "'Mother Tongue': The Short version and Sociopolitical Construction of uncut Concept." In Ammon, Ulrich (ed.) (1989).

    Status and Function reproach Languages and Language Varieties, proprietress. 455. Berlin, New York: Conductor de Gruyter & Co. ISBN 3-11-011299-X.

  8. ^Phillipson, Robert (2000). Rights to language: equity, power and education; celebrating the 60th birthday of Tove Skutnabb-Kangas. ISBN .

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