Managing multilingualism in a European nation-state : challenges for Sweden

Abstract

This collection of papers presents a range of views about the three-layered language situation in Sweden, a situation not unlike that in many other countries worldwide. papers include the following: Introduction (Sally Boyd and Leena Huss); English, and the European Union (Bjorn Melander), which summarizes studies that focus on the question of the English language's influence on Swedish, primarily as a result of Sweden's membership in the European Union; The Protection and Rejection of Minority and Majority Languages in the School System (Jarmo Lainio), which presents a minority language perspective about the situation in schools concerning the national language, minority languages (particularly Finnish), and English; Swedish Tomorrow: A Product of the Linguistic Dominance of English? (Britt-Louise Gunnarsson), which discusses the role of English in Sweden, primarily in the written medium; and The World Came to Sweden--But Did Language Rights? (Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and Robert Phillipson), which examines the role of global English, focusing on myths about the benefits of English as a neutral lingua franca and noting weaknesses of various international legal documents in regard to protecting linguistic human rights.

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