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The Illocutionary Force of Inuit Ice Vocabularies
Get PDFLexicons of Yup’ik sea-ice terminology rely on extra-textual elements, including photographs, diagrams and sketches. Definitions are also supplemented with stories about personal experience and of the behaviour of ice phenomena. Speech act theory argues that these elements communicate an often overlooked illocutionary dimension which shows the importance of semantics in addition to the syntax of scientific definitions. The illocutionary aspects captures the performative, experiential quality of sea ice as a lived environment engaged in processes of hunting, travel and fishing. I argue that the illocutionary force of the descriptions presented in the lexicons is epistemic and ignoring this silences the Indigenous “voice.” This supports Townsends argument that illocutionary silencing occurs when science treats environmental descriptions as not material but cultural and circumstantial
Annette Lassen, Islændingesagaernes verden, København: Gyldendal 2017, ISBN 9788702234084, 165 pp.
No full textMaria Löfdahl, Ortnamnen i Sotenäs härad. 1. Bebyggelsenamn
No full textReview of: Maria Löfdahl, Ortnamnen i Sotenäs härad. 1. Bebyggelsenamn, Göteborg: Institutet för språk och folkminnen. Dialekt-, ortnamns- och folkminnesarkivet i Göteborg 2018 (Ortnamnen i Göteborgs och Bohus län. XIV), ISSN 0284-1908; ISBN 9789186959449, XXXV + 164 pp. + map in back cover pocket
Christian Lovén, Vårfruberga kloster. 1200-talsjordeboken och godspolitiken, Stockholm: Riksarkivet 2017 (Skrifter utg. av Riksarkivet 40; Studier till Det medeltida Sverige 7), ISSN 1402- 4705, ISBN 9789187491269, 180 pp.
No full textThe Promise of Kiruna’s Iron Ore in the Swedish Imagination, c. 1901–1915
Get PDFIron ore mining in the Norrbotten region of Sweden began in the early years of the twentieth century as a commercially uncertain and even dangerous proposition. But even before it began to generate profits, public debate began over the appropriate role of the state and of private capital (including foreign investors). This included whether iron ore should be exported for profit or retained for future processing in Sweden—even though the technology and infrastructure for such domestic industry did not exist. Tracing the evolution of this debate in the Swedish news media through to the First World War, this paper argues that the revenue generated by exports became more attractive than the promise of future domestic industry because that revenue could underwrite pressing political objectives. Although domestic iron ore processing remained linked to visions of future industrial prosperity, uncertain visions of future prosperity lost appeal as the capacity for export revenues to generate prosperity in the present became more potent
Kåre Hoel, Bustadnavn i Østfold 15. Skjeberg. Utgitt av Institutt for lingvistiske og nordiske studier, Universitetet i Oslo ved Tom Schmidt, Oslo: Novus Forlag 2016, ISBN 9788270998562, 532 pp. + map at the end.
No full textPedagogical Journeys or Pleasure Trips: Danish Schoolteachers’ Educational Journeys, 1898–1932
Get PDFIn the last decades of the nineteenth and first decades of the twentieth centuries, a wide range of pedagogical ideas were disseminated in Denmark, influencing both primary schooling and everyday school life. Many of these ideas, along with the desire for educational reform, originated in other European countries and were transferred into a Danish context. During the period 1898–1932, the Danish Ministry of Education awarded 874 grants to Danish male and female primary schoolteachers, enabling them to embark on educational journeys at home and abroad. The author analyses these journeys as an example of educational borrowing to determine the exact nature of the new, inspirational concepts and knowledge to be acquired and to ascertain which countries were perceived as being educationally progressive. From a broader perspective, this article contributes to our understanding of how academic and professional discourses of education crossed borders and contributed to national educational systems becoming more and more alike. The article concludes that the majority of teachers wanted to embark on a Bildung journey, visiting Nordic countries and Germany, with the experience of foreign culture, language and education as their desired purpose. These teachers did not seek big changes, but rather sought to incorporate new concepts and practices into their daily work. Only a minority of the group applied for grants in order to obtain inspiration for widespread reforms or pedagogical renewal. These teachers were national experts in a particular field and belonged to a wider international group, which contributed to the construction of international grammar of school reforms
When Myth-Building Meets Nation-Branding: Fabricating the “Swedish Educational Model” in French Media Discourse (1964–2019)
Get PDFThe educational reforms carried out in Sweden have aroused persistent interest in the French public debate. This paper focuses on the evolution of the media’s portrayal of an alleged Swedish “educational model,” by highlighting cross-national influences over an extended time horizon. The origin of a stereotype is addressed from the point of view of the interaction between the Swedish branding of its own model and the demand, on the part of French elites, for a handy reform paradigm. Two crucial phases of idealisation are identified. At first, the popularity of the Swedish experiment in education coincides with the idealisation of Sweden as a laboratory for social reform. Since 2010, TV reporting has focused on both the resistance of this myth and the diversity of its possible uses. The expansion of market-oriented principles in educational culture is stigmatised as a “betrayal” of values associated with the Swedish reform experience (pupil autonomy, inclusiveness, anti-authoritarianism), while other players—such as international ranking organisations—intervene in shaping the media image
Stephen Bocking & Brad Martin, Ice Blink. Navigating Northern Environmental History, Calgary: University of Calgary Press 2017, ISBN 9781552388549 (paperback), 526 pp.
No full textAnn-Marie Ivars, Svenskan i Finland – i dag och i går, vol. 1:1. Dialekter och småstadsspråk
No full textReview of: Ann-Marie Ivars, Svenskan i Finland – i dag och i går, vol. 1:1. Dialekter och småstadsspråk, Helsingfors: Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland 2015 (Skrifter utg. av Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland 798), ISBN 9789515833365, ISSN 0039-6842, 464 pp