Tove Skutnabb-Kangas

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Tove Skutnabb-Kangas

Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (born July 6, 1940 in Helsinki ) is a Finnish linguist and educator .

Life

After her training in Helsinki she worked for a short time at the teachers' college. From 1967 to 1968 she went to the USA , where she got a job in the Nordic Language Department at Harvard . She then worked briefly as a teacher in Helsinki. Since 1970 she has been working as a scientist at universities in Finland and Denmark . In 1976 she obtained her first doctorate; The topic of her doctorate is bilingualism . From 1995 to 2000 she taught at the Danish University of Roskilde , where she was a visiting researcher from 1979 to 2007. She has since retired.

The main theme of her work is research into the conditions of bilingualism. In the early 1980s, she played a key role in developing the concept of linguisticism , which she uses to grasp discrimination against minority languages. She criticizes both the neglect of children with a foreign mother tongue (for example Turkish children in Germany ) and the devaluation of bilingualism .

Works

  • Tove Skutnabb-Kangas: Bilingualism or not - the education of minorities . Multilingual Matters, Clevedon, Avon 1984, ISBN 0-905028-17-1 .
  • Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Jim Cummins (Ed.): Minority education: from shame to struggle . Multilingual Matters, Clevedon, Avon 1988 (410 pages).
  • Tove Skutnabb-Kangas: Language, Literacy and Minorities . The Minority Rights Group, London 1990.
  • Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Robert Phillipson (Ed.): Linguistic Human Rights. Over-coming linguistic discrimination. Contributions to the Sociology of Language 67 . Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin & New York 1995, ISBN 3-11-014878-1 (478 pages, paperback).
  • Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (Ed.): Multilingualism for All. Series European Studies on Multilingualism . Swets & Zeitlinger, Lisse, Netherlands 1995, ISBN 90-265-1423-9 .
  • Miklós Kontra, Robert Phillipson, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Tibor Várady (Eds.): Language: A Right and a Resource. Approaching Linguistic Human Rights . Central European University Press, Budapest 1999, ISBN 963-9116-64-5 .
  • Tove Skutnabb-Kangas: Linguistic genocide in education? or worldwide diversity and human rights? Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, New Jersey & London 2000, ISBN 0-8058-3468-0 .

literature

  • Robert Phillipson (Ed.): Rights to Language: Equity, Power, and Education. Celebrating the 60th Birthday of Tove Skutnabb-Kangas . Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, New Jersey & London 2000.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ TOVE Anita SKUTNABB-KANGAS dr.phil. Curriculum vitae , resume on your own website; Retrieved April 7, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Skutnabb-kangas, Tove
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish linguist and educator
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Helsinki