Ari Páll Kristinsson
List of John Benjamins publications for which Ari Páll Kristinsson plays a role.
Articles
2014 Ideologies in Iceland: the protection of language forms English in Nordic Universities: Ideologies and practices, Hultgren, Anna Kristina, Frans Gregersen and Jacob Thøgersen (eds.), pp. 165–177 | Article
The author shows that while Iceland’s protectionist language ideologies are deeply rooted as to the forms of Icelandic, Icelanders are more pragmatic when it comes to questions of language choice. It is therefore not contradictory that English is increasingly used in Icelandic academia, even if… read more
2012 Unequal language rights in the Nordic language community Language Problems and Language Planning 36:3, pp. 222–236 | Article
The aim of this paper is to show the implications of using the notion of ‘common culture’ as a basis for a communication policy across language boundaries. There are eight different national languages in the Nordic area, from Greenland in the west to Finland in the east, from Sápmi — the… read more