Search for dissertations about: "language legislation"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 swedish dissertations containing the words language legislation.

  2. 1. Debating Swedish : Language Politics and Ideology in Contemporary Sweden

    Author : Tommaso M. Milani; Kenneth Hyltenstam; Sally Johnson; Adrian Blackledge; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; bilingual education; citizenship; CDA; language debate; language ideology; language legislation; language politics; language testing; social theory; Sweden; Bilingualism; Tvåspråkighet; tvåspråkighetsforskning; Bilingualism Research;

    Abstract : This thesis is concerned with three language debates that reached their most crucial peaks in Sweden at the beginning of the twenty-first century: (i) the debate on the promotion of the Swedish language, (ii) the debate on language testing for citizenship, and (iii) the debate on mother tongue instruction. The main scope of the thesis is to take a theoretically multi-pronged approach to these debates trying to shed light on the following aspects: Why did such debates emerge when they did? Which discourses were available in those specific historical moments? Who are the social actors that intervened in these debates? What is at stake for them? What do they claim? What systems of values, ideas and beliefs – i. READ MORE

  4. 2. Language policy and Sámi education in Sweden : ideological and implementational spaces for Sámi language use

    Author : Kristina Belancic; Eva Lindgren; Patrik Lantto; Ylva Jannok Nutti; Hilde Sollid; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sámi language use; Sámi Indigenous education; implementational and ideological spaces; Swedish Sápmi; language teaching and learning; språkdidaktik;

    Abstract : In Sámi schools in Sweden, the use of the Sámi languages and Swedish as languages of instruction is regulated by government and education policy; legislation allows Sámi and Swedish to be used for teaching and learning. However, agency and personal beliefs about Sámi languages play important roles in language use. READ MORE

  5. 3. Rape and Religion in English Renaissance Literature : A Topical Study of Four Texts by Shakespeare, Drayton, and Middleton

    Author : Anna Swärdh; Monica Fryckstedt; Michael Srigley; Marcus Nordlund; John Roe; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; William Shakespeare; Michael Drayton; Thomas Middleton; Robert Southwell; Titus Andronicus; The Rape of Lucrece; Matilda; The Ghost of Lucrece; complaint poetry; Reformation; Counter-Reformation; idolatry; iconoclasm; baroque; poery of tears; rape; rape legislation; Anne Bellamy; Richard Topcliffe; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : This study argues that Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus (1594) and The Rape of Lucrece (1594), Michael Drayton’s Matilda (1594) and Thomas Middleton’s The Ghost of Lucrece (1600) are, in ways hitherto not realised, topically concerned with the religious controversies in the wake of the English Reformation. This concern is discussed on a general level of interest related to religious attitudes and practices significant at the time of writing, and on a specific level pertaining to events surrounding the capture of the Jesuit poet Robert Southwell in 1592, which included the rape or seduction of a Catholic woman. READ MORE

  6. 4. Trajectories of Integration : Naturalization, Intermarriage and Education in Denmark, 1980-2015

    Author : Anna Tegunimataka; Centrum för ekonomisk demografi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Naturalization; mother-tongue education; intermarriage; immigrant integration; Denmark;

    Abstract : This dissertation examines socio-economic outcomes of first and second generation immigrants in Denmark and adds to our understanding of different trajectories of immigrant integration by studying policy and family relatedfactors. The association between family composition and socio-economic outcomes of the individual is in this thesis examined by studying the effects of intermarriage. READ MORE

  7. 5. A castle in the air : The complexity of the multilingual interpretation of european community law

    Author : Mattias Derlén; Pär Hallström; Barbara Pozzo; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; multilingual interpretation; EU law; EU law in Danish courts; EU law in English courts; EU law in German courts; legal culture; preliminary rulings; European Court of Justice; LAW JURISPRUDENCE; RÄTTSVETENSKAP JURIDIK;

    Abstract : It is well known that European Union law is multilingual. Union legislation is not only published in all authentic languages but equally authoritative in each language. The European Court of Justice has discussed – and indeed made use of – this multilingual character when interpreting Community law. READ MORE