Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas | |
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Linguicism | |
Spouse | Robert Phillipson |
Academic background | |
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Academic work | |
Discipline | Linguist |
Sub-discipline | Multilingualism, linguistic rights |
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Tove Anita Skutnabb-Kangas
Life
Skutnabb-Kangas was born in Helsinki, Finland, and her mother tongues were Finnish and Swedish.[1][2][3] 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. From 1970, she worked as a scientist at universities in Finland and Denmark. In 1976, she obtained her first doctorate in Helsinki;[4] The subject of her doctorate was bilingualism. From 1995 to 2000, she taught at Roskilde University, where she was a guest researcher from 1979 to 2007. From then until her death, she was emeritus.[5]
The topic of her work was primarily the study of the conditions of bilingualism. At the beginning of the 1980s, she developed the concept of
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 her husband British linguist Robert Phillipson.[7]
In 2003, she and
Skutnabb-Kangas died in Lund, Sweden on 29 May 2023, at the age of 82.[2]
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. 14 December 2016. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
References
- ^ a b Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove. "Tove Skutnabb-Kangas". tove-skutnabb-kangas.org. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
- ^ a b Markkula, Jyri (4 June 2023). "Vähemmistökielitutkija ja -oikeustaistelija Tove Skutnabb-Kangas on kuollut" (in Finnish). Sveriges Radio. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
- ^ "Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, linguist who coined term 'linguicism' to define linguistic discrimination, dies at 82". Nationalia. CIEMEN. 1 June 2023. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
- ^ a b "2003 Award". Linguapax International. 14 December 2016. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
- ^ TOVE Anita SKUTNABB-KANGAS dr.phil.
- ISBN 3-11-011299-X.
- ISBN 978-0-8058-3835-0.