ABSTRACT

This article examines Language Policy documents within higher education institutions in Sweden. Its main focus is on how national language policies and policies for internationalization of the higher education are reinterpreted as local language policy. The analysis of ideologies surrounding the prescribed language(s) in meetings of decision making bodies in fifteen local Language Policy documents reveals how a monolingual national language policy is negotiated to accommodate an internationalized multilingual workplace. When the multilingual context of the internationalized university intrudes on the nationally oriented context of public administration, which favors Swedish as a default language, there are two solutions to be found in the language policy documents. (1) a temporary or permanent shift towards an internationally oriented monolingual context by allowing the use of another language, favoring English, or (2) a temporary or permanent shift towards parallel language-informed practices. Restrictive measures are found to construct situations where participation is made possible for non-regular non-Swedish-speaking members, while permissive measures provide inclusion for regular non-Swedish-speaking members, too.

摘要

本文研究了瑞典高等教育机构内的语言政策文件。它的主要重点是如何将国家语言政策和高等教育国际化政策重新解释为本地语言政策。在决策机构的15份地方语言政策文件会议中，围绕指定语言的意识形态分析表明，如何通过谈判制定单一语言的国家语言政策来适应国际化的多语言工作场所。当国际化大学的多语言环境侵犯了面向公共管理的面向国家的环境时，这倾向于使用瑞典语作为默认语言，因此在语言政策文件中可以找到两种解决方案。（1）允许使用另一种语言，偏爱英语，从而暂时或永久性地朝着面向国际的单语环境过渡；或（2）暂时性或永久性地朝着平行的基于语言的惯例过渡。人们发现限制性措施造成了非瑞典语非正规成员可以参加的情况，而宽松措施也为非瑞典语常规成员提供了参与的机会。