Language policy has an impact both on societies and on individuals, especially in contexts where negative ideologies toward minorities and minority languages may exist. A functional language policy protects a minority and allows it to develop its culture and language, while an ineffective policy might cause irreparable damage and lead to language attrition and even complete loss of language. The development of Finnish in Sweden from a language policy perspective has been fairly positive since the mid-1990s, especially when it comes to the establishment and strengthening of the legal and regulatory support in international conventions and domestic legislation. Despite these improvements there have been practical negative developments, which are symbolised in the closing down of a bilingual independent school in Gothenburg in 2016. The closing of the schools signal opposing tendencies in the treatment of Finnish in Sweden. In this paper I will examine how supranational and national language policies are implemented locally in Gothenburg and how this implementation reveals how well the policies function and what role ideologies play in the implementation. I discuss how different levels of policymaking and application contribute to the current status of the Sweden Finnish minority and Sweden Finnish as a minority language by employing Richard Ruiz’s three orientations to language planning (Ruiz 1984; Hult and Hornberger 2016) in tandem with Irvine & Gal’s concept of erasure and critical discourse analysis. I exemplify how the language policies work by studying interviews and media reporting from the field. I examine how the different discourses are in conflict with each other and what ramifications these discrepancies result in.

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社会支持瑞典学校系统中芬兰语教育的理论和实践

语言政策对社会和个人都有影响，尤其是在可能存在对少数民族和少数民族语言的负面意识形态的情况下。功能性语言政策保护少数群体并允许他们发展自己的文化和语言，而无效的政策可能会造成无法弥补的损害并导致语言磨损甚至完全丧失语言。自 1990 年代中期以来，从语言政策的角度来看，瑞典语在瑞典的发展一直相当积极，特别是在国际公约和国内立法中建立和加强法律和监管支持方面。尽管有这些改进，但实际的负面发展还是出现了，这在 2016 年哥德堡一所双语独立学校的关闭中体现了出来。学校的关闭标志着瑞典对待芬兰语的相反倾向。在本文中，我将研究如何在哥德堡当地实施超国家和民族语言政策，以及这种实施如何揭示政策的运作情况以及意识形态在实施中发挥的作用。我通过使用 Richard Ruiz 的三个语言规划方向（Ruiz 1984；Hult 和 Hornberger 2016）与 Irvine & Gal 的结合，讨论了不同级别的政策制定和应用如何对瑞典芬兰少数民族和瑞典芬兰语作为少数民族语言的现状做出贡献擦除和批判性话语分析的概念。我通过研究实地采访和媒体报道来举例说明语言政策是如何运作的。