Mia Halonen is a senior researcher at the Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Her research interests include language ideologies and policy, sociophonetics, performances, micro analytic and mixed methods, social media and popular culture.Pasi Ihalainen is a professor of Comparative European History at the Department of History and Ethnology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His research interests include comparative history, national identity, parliamentary discourse, and multi-sited constitutional debates.Taina Saarinen is a senior researcher at the Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Her research interests include language policy, methodology, and higher education internationalisation.

• Part 1. Theoretical and Methodological Introduction1. Mia Halonen, Pasi Ihalainen and Taina Saarinen: Diverse Discourses in Time and Space: Historical, Discourse Analytical and Ethnographic Approaches to Multi-sited Language Policy DiscoursePart 2. Language Policies in Parliaments, Legislation and the Media2. Pasi Ihalainen and Taina Saarinen: Constructing ‘Language’ in Language Policy Discourse: Finnish and Swedish Legislative Processes in the 2000s3. Sally Boyd and Åsa Palviainen: Building Walls or Bridges? A Language Ideological Debate about Bilingual Schools in Finland4. Mika Lähteenmäki and Sari Pöyhönen: Language Rights of the Russian-Speaking Minority in Finland: Multi-Sited Historical Arguments and Language Ideologies5. Jarmo Lainio: The Art of Societal Ambivalence: A Retrospective View on Swedish Language Policies for Finnish in SwedenPart 3. Individuals as Constructors and Reflectors of Language Policies6. Sofia Kotilainen: National Language Policy at the Local Level: The Realisation of Language Legislation in Late Nineteenth-Century Finland7. Mats Wickström: Making the Case For the Mother Tongue: Ethnic Activism and the Emergence of a New Policy Discourse on Non-Swedish Mother Tongue Teaching in Sweden in the 1960s and 1970s8. Hanna Snellman: Everyday Language Policies: Embodiment of Language-Related Experiences of Finnish Women in Sweden9. Mia Halonen, Tarja Nikula, Taina Saarinen and Mirja Tarnanen: ‘Listen, There’ll be a Pause after each Question‘: A Swedish Lesson as a Nexus for Multi-Sited Language Education PoliciesPart 4. Epilogue10. Muiris Ó Laoire: Multi-Sited Language Policies: Where have we come from and where to from here in Language Policy?

This excellent book provides a state of the art account of language issues in Sweden and Finland, presented in an interesting theoretical frame. The authors’ view that language policy is multi-sited and in constant dialogic development results in a cohesive volume which reveals both the origins and the current complexities of Northern language policy and practice.

Mia Halonen is a senior researcher at the Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Her research interests include language ideologies and policy, sociophonetics, performances, micro analytic and mixed methods, social media and popular culture.Pasi Ihalainen is a professor of Comparative European History at the Department of History and Ethnology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His research interests include comparative history, national identity, parliamentary discourse, and multi-sited constitutional debates.Taina Saarinen is a senior researcher at the Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Her research interests include language policy, methodology, and higher education internationalisation.

• Part 1. Theoretical and Methodological Introduction1. Mia Halonen, Pasi Ihalainen and Taina Saarinen: Diverse Discourses in Time and Space: Historical, Discourse Analytical and Ethnographic Approaches to Multi-sited Language Policy DiscoursePart 2. Language Policies in Parliaments, Legislation and the Media2. Pasi Ihalainen and Taina Saarinen: Constructing ‘Language’ in Language Policy Discourse: Finnish and Swedish Legislative Processes in the 2000s3. Sally Boyd and Åsa Palviainen: Building Walls or Bridges? A Language Ideological Debate about Bilingual Schools in Finland4. Mika Lähteenmäki and Sari Pöyhönen: Language Rights of the Russian-Speaking Minority in Finland: Multi-Sited Historical Arguments and Language Ideologies5. Jarmo Lainio: The Art of Societal Ambivalence: A Retrospective View on Swedish Language Policies for Finnish in SwedenPart 3. Individuals as Constructors and Reflectors of Language Policies6. Sofia Kotilainen: National Language Policy at the Local Level: The Realisation of Language Legislation in Late Nineteenth-Century Finland7. Mats Wickström: Making the Case For the Mother Tongue: Ethnic Activism and the Emergence of a New Policy Discourse on Non-Swedish Mother Tongue Teaching in Sweden in the 1960s and 1970s8. Hanna Snellman: Everyday Language Policies: Embodiment of Language-Related Experiences of Finnish Women in Sweden9. Mia Halonen, Tarja Nikula, Taina Saarinen and Mirja Tarnanen: ‘Listen, There’ll be a Pause after each Question‘: A Swedish Lesson as a Nexus for Multi-Sited Language Education PoliciesPart 4. Epilogue10. Muiris Ó Laoire: Multi-Sited Language Policies: Where have we come from and where to from here in Language Policy?

This excellent book provides a state of the art account of language issues in Sweden and Finland, presented in an interesting theoretical frame. The authors’ view that language policy is multi-sited and in constant dialogic development results in a cohesive volume which reveals both the origins and the current complexities of Northern language policy and practice.

Mia Halonen is a senior researcher at the Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Her research interests include language ideologies and policy, sociophonetics, performances, micro analytic and mixed methods, social media and popular culture.Pasi Ihalainen is a professor of Comparative European History at the Department of History and Ethnology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His research interests include comparative history, national identity, parliamentary discourse, and multi-sited constitutional debates.Taina Saarinen is a senior researcher at the Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Her research interests include language policy, methodology, and higher education internationalisation.

• Part 1. Theoretical and Methodological Introduction1. Mia Halonen, Pasi Ihalainen and Taina Saarinen: Diverse Discourses in Time and Space: Historical, Discourse Analytical and Ethnographic Approaches to Multi-sited Language Policy DiscoursePart 2. Language Policies in Parliaments, Legislation and the Media2. Pasi Ihalainen and Taina Saarinen: Constructing ‘Language’ in Language Policy Discourse: Finnish and Swedish Legislative Processes in the 2000s3. Sally Boyd and Åsa Palviainen: Building Walls or Bridges? A Language Ideological Debate about Bilingual Schools in Finland4. Mika Lähteenmäki and Sari Pöyhönen: Language Rights of the Russian-Speaking Minority in Finland: Multi-Sited Historical Arguments and Language Ideologies5. Jarmo Lainio: The Art of Societal Ambivalence: A Retrospective View on Swedish Language Policies for Finnish in SwedenPart 3. Individuals as Constructors and Reflectors of Language Policies6. Sofia Kotilainen: National Language Policy at the Local Level: The Realisation of Language Legislation in Late Nineteenth-Century Finland7. Mats Wickström: Making the Case For the Mother Tongue: Ethnic Activism and the Emergence of a New Policy Discourse on Non-Swedish Mother Tongue Teaching in Sweden in the 1960s and 1970s8. Hanna Snellman: Everyday Language Policies: Embodiment of Language-Related Experiences of Finnish Women in Sweden9. Mia Halonen, Tarja Nikula, Taina Saarinen and Mirja Tarnanen: ‘Listen, There’ll be a Pause after each Question‘: A Swedish Lesson as a Nexus for Multi-Sited Language Education PoliciesPart 4. Epilogue10. Muiris Ó Laoire: Multi-Sited Language Policies: Where have we come from and where to from here in Language Policy?

This excellent book provides a state of the art account of language issues in Sweden and Finland, presented in an interesting theoretical frame. The authors’ view that language policy is multi-sited and in constant dialogic development results in a cohesive volume which reveals both the origins and the current complexities of Northern language policy and practice.