ABSTRACT

This article gives a presentation of the Swedish Language act and its application and reception by the public. Ten years have passed since its introduction, and for this reason a study was conducted by the Swedish Language council about what kind of issues were brought to governmental and local authorities by the public. By the collection of e-mail from the public presenting questions or comments in connection to the law this study could show two main topics. A little less than half of the e-mails were concerned about two of the national minority languages in Sweden, Finnish and Meänkieli, mostly from an educational perspective. Another main group of e-mails were concerned with the situation for sign language. The remaining minority languages and others issues related to the Language Act were hardly mentioned at all. Conclusions to be drawn are that strong lobbying groups do invoke legislation that can be associated with their aims, and that there may be other parts of the legislation that better cover the rights that the e-mailers wish to defend or that the Language act is still unknown as to its content.

摘要

本文介绍了瑞典语法案及其在公众中的应用和接受。自推出以来已经过去了十年，因此，瑞典语言委员会对公众向政府和地方当局提出了哪些问题进行了研究。通过收集公众提出的与法律有关的问题或意见的电子邮件，这项研究可以显示两个主要主题。电子邮件中几乎只有一半涉及瑞典的两种少数民族语言，芬兰语和Meänkieli，主要是从教育角度来看。另一组主要的电子邮件与手语的情况有关。几乎没有提到其余的少数民族语言以及与《语言法》有关的其他问题。