Tove Rosendal
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 6175558 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Tove Rosendal |
| NOMBRES | Tove |
| APELLIDO | Rosendal |
| FIRMA | ROSENDAL T |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5075-5362 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 16 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Mosques and belonging in Scandinavia
This study aims to demonstrate the importance of language in shaping the sense of belonging of mosques in Scandinavia. To do so, we draw upon Raffestin’s work on territoriality (1986, 2012) and combine it with linguistic theories of language politics, semiotic landscape and onomastics. By conceptualising mosques as institutions, in which language status, language choice and critical toponymy assume a pivotal role, the study seeks to highlight how…
Why language matters
This study examines whether purpose-built mosques in Oslo, Stockholm, and Copenhagen are embedded within their local contexts or whether they rather display ties to transnational Islamic networks. To address this question, we draw on an exploratory theoretical framework that integrates territorialization theory, the field of semiotic landscapes, and critical toponymy and conceptualizes mosques as assemblages. The study demonstrates that analyzing…
Reclaimed narratives
Drawing on the fields of cultural geography, critical toponymy and memory studies, this study investigates the names used by ordinary urban residents to navigate the streets of Kigali. In our study, we analyse the localised memories and narratives inscribed in these nonofficial names in relation to the cultural, political and social context of the spaces in question. Our empirical study, based on walk-along interviews conducted in the city centre…
Power dynamics of post-genocide street renaming in urban Rwanda - the territorial demarcation between the past and the present
Drawing on critical toponymy, and at the intersection of human geography, urban studies, and sociolinguistics, this qualitative study analyses the 2012 renaming of all Rwandan streets with a special focus on Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. Combining empirical data from document analysis and walking interviews with citizens in Kigali, the study critically analyses and contrasts post-independence street names to the new post-genocide names. In addit…
Navigating whiteness from the margins
This paper examines the relationship between language, (in)visibility, and (im)mobility in racialized spaces, focusing on Finnish, Somali, and Arabic speakers in Sweden. Using a theoretical framework based on hegemonic whiteness and intersectionality, the study explores how multilingual practices and subjectivities intersect with race, religion, gender, and class to shape social visibility and mobility. The research draws on linguistic ethnograph…
Language, translocality and urban change
This article addresses the role of translocal interconnectedness between offline and online spaces by examining the varied presence of language displays in such spaces. Quantitative findings on language presence in the offline public spaces of four Gothenburg neighbourhoods are contrasted with the online presence found in three Swedish search portals, and the differences are interpreted in light of the broader socioeconomic processes of gentrific…
Introducing the political economy of language in place/space
In the last years, there has been a strong drive within Linguistic Landscape studies to 'go beyond the signs. ' This methodological challenge has often been interpreted as talking to the producers, owners, and readers of signs in order to learn more about how they conceptualize the value and meaning of signs and languages in place. This undertaking has contributed to underlining social agency in the production and interpretation of Linguistic Lan…
Amid signs of change
In this paper we explore the nexus of language policy, ideology and power in the linguistic landscape of urban Rwanda. In post-genocide Rwanda, English has been promoted and gained status. This has led to an increased usage of English on shop signs in the streets of Kigali and other towns in Rwanda at the expense of both French and Kinyarwanda. Unique quantitative language data documented in streets before 2008 are in this study compared to data …
Imagined Futures and New Technology
Building on investment theory, this study analyses the language attitudes of secondary school students in Songea, Tanzania, with a focus on identity and access to digital technology. The study involved 467 secondary school students aged 14–21 years. The data were collected through questionnaires and interviews. Less than half of the students had access to digital technology. Most of them lacked the required linguistic resources. English, a challe…
Speaking of tradition
This paper presents results from an ethnographically informed study based on focus group discussions where rural Ngoni farmers in the southern highlands of Tanzania voice their ideas about their cultural heritage, with a special focus on attitudes towards Ngoni culture and cultural changes. With a model based on Ehala [2009. “Connecting the Individual and Cultural Level Value Analysis: The Case of Utilitarianism vs. Traditionalism.” Journal of Hu…
Identity Construction and Norms of Practice among Bilingual Ngoni in Rural Tanzania
This article investigates identity construction among bilingual Ngoni in rural Tanzania by letting the Ngoni themselves voice their views on their mixing of Swahili and Ngoni. Against the background of a possible language shift, this study focuses on how the symbolic value of language is mediated in the social action of the Ngoni. With an ethnographic approach and by using nexus analysis and ethnolinguistic identity theory as a framework, this ar…
Contact-induced language alternation in Tanzanian Ngoni – an empirical study of frequency and patterns
The codeswitching pattern is different in rural Tanzania compared to urban agglomerations around the world. Even in very rural areas people in Tanzania are bilingual in Swahili, the national and local lingua franca, and their own first language. The result of this language contact is understudied and has only recently been focused on. This paper presents quantitative and qualitative results of a study of the language Ngoni in contact with Swahili…
Borrowing in Tanzanian Ngoni Lexicon
The Tanzanian language Ngoni has interacted for long with Swahili, which is the more prestigious and dominant lingua franca in Tanzania. This language contact situation affects Ngoni, which frequently borrows terms from Swahili, both for concepts which are new to the Ngoni speakers, but also terms which replace existing Ngoni vocabulary. This paper investigates how borrowed words are integrated, based on a framework including semantic generalisat…
Is the Tanzanian Ngoni language threatened? A survey of lexical borrowing from Swahili
Tanzania's post-independence language policy has promoted Swahili as a means of achieving national and linguistic unity. This policy has affected the Ngoni language in south-western Tanzania. Today, Swahili has permeated communication all over Tanzania, even in rural and remote areas. This paper discusses lexical borrowing and especially borrowing in the basic vocabulary, which is considered less susceptible to borrowing, to establish the vitalit…
Languages in competition in Rwanda
Following the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, far-reaching language policy changes were introduced. Due to the return of many exiled English speakers, English was stipulated as the third official language alongside French and Rwanda (Ikinyarwanda), the latter being the national language, spoken as L1 by 99.4 per cent of the population. This article summarises the use of the three official languages, focusing on the role and position of languages in the …
Linguistic markets in Rwanda
Rwanda has experienced major changes during the last decade due to the genocide in 1994. After the civil war, in addition to establishing political and economical stability, peace and reconciliation, the government was faced with the return of refugees from neighbouring, mostly English-speaking, countries. The new socio-demographic conditions resulted in a change in the official language policy from Rwanda–French bilingualism to Rwanda–French–Eng…
Linguistic markets in Rwanda
Rwanda has experienced major changes during the last decade due to the genocide in 1994. After the civil war, in addition to establishing political and economical stability, peace and reconciliation, the government was faced with the return of refugees from neighbouring, mostly English-speaking, countries. The new socio-demographic conditions resulted in a change in the official language policy from Rwanda–French bilingualism to Rwanda–French–Eng…
Speaking of tradition
This paper presents results from an ethnographically informed study based on focus group discussions where rural Ngoni farmers in the southern highlands of Tanzania voice their ideas about their cultural heritage, with a special focus on attitudes towards Ngoni culture and cultural changes. With a model based on Ehala [2009. “Connecting the Individual and Cultural Level Value Analysis: The Case of Utilitarianism vs. Traditionalism.” Journal of Hu…
Is the Tanzanian Ngoni language threatened? A survey of lexical borrowing from Swahili
Tanzania's post-independence language policy has promoted Swahili as a means of achieving national and linguistic unity. This policy has affected the Ngoni language in south-western Tanzania. Today, Swahili has permeated communication all over Tanzania, even in rural and remote areas. This paper discusses lexical borrowing and especially borrowing in the basic vocabulary, which is considered less susceptible to borrowing, to establish the vitalit…
Linguistic markets in Rwanda
Rwanda has experienced major changes during the last decade due to the genocide in 1994. After the civil war, in addition to establishing political and economical stability, peace and reconciliation, the government was faced with the return of refugees from neighbouring, mostly English-speaking, countries. The new socio-demographic conditions resulted in a change in the official language policy from Rwanda–French bilingualism to Rwanda–French–Eng…
Languages in competition in Rwanda
Following the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, far-reaching language policy changes were introduced. Due to the return of many exiled English speakers, English was stipulated as the third official language alongside French and Rwanda (Ikinyarwanda), the latter being the national language, spoken as L1 by 99.4 per cent of the population. This article summarises the use of the three official languages, focusing on the role and position of languages in the …
Is the Tanzanian Ngoni language threatened? A survey of lexical borrowing from Swahili
Tanzania's post-independence language policy has promoted Swahili as a means of achieving national and linguistic unity. This policy has affected the Ngoni language in south-western Tanzania. Today, Swahili has permeated communication all over Tanzania, even in rural and remote areas. This paper discusses lexical borrowing and especially borrowing in the basic vocabulary, which is considered less susceptible to borrowing, to establish the vitalit…
Borrowing in Tanzanian Ngoni Lexicon
The Tanzanian language Ngoni has interacted for long with Swahili, which is the more prestigious and dominant lingua franca in Tanzania. This language contact situation affects Ngoni, which frequently borrows terms from Swahili, both for concepts which are new to the Ngoni speakers, but also terms which replace existing Ngoni vocabulary. This paper investigates how borrowed words are integrated, based on a framework including semantic generalisat…
Contact-induced language alternation in Tanzanian Ngoni – an empirical study of frequency and patterns
The codeswitching pattern is different in rural Tanzania compared to urban agglomerations around the world. Even in very rural areas people in Tanzania are bilingual in Swahili, the national and local lingua franca, and their own first language. The result of this language contact is understudied and has only recently been focused on. This paper presents quantitative and qualitative results of a study of the language Ngoni in contact with Swahili…
Identity Construction and Norms of Practice among Bilingual Ngoni in Rural Tanzania
This article investigates identity construction among bilingual Ngoni in rural Tanzania by letting the Ngoni themselves voice their views on their mixing of Swahili and Ngoni. Against the background of a possible language shift, this study focuses on how the symbolic value of language is mediated in the social action of the Ngoni. With an ethnographic approach and by using nexus analysis and ethnolinguistic identity theory as a framework, this ar…
Speaking of tradition
This paper presents results from an ethnographically informed study based on focus group discussions where rural Ngoni farmers in the southern highlands of Tanzania voice their ideas about their cultural heritage, with a special focus on attitudes towards Ngoni culture and cultural changes. With a model based on Ehala [2009. “Connecting the Individual and Cultural Level Value Analysis: The Case of Utilitarianism vs. Traditionalism.” Journal of Hu…
Imagined Futures and New Technology
Building on investment theory, this study analyses the language attitudes of secondary school students in Songea, Tanzania, with a focus on identity and access to digital technology. The study involved 467 secondary school students aged 14–21 years. The data were collected through questionnaires and interviews. Less than half of the students had access to digital technology. Most of them lacked the required linguistic resources. English, a challe…
Amid signs of change
In this paper we explore the nexus of language policy, ideology and power in the linguistic landscape of urban Rwanda. In post-genocide Rwanda, English has been promoted and gained status. This has led to an increased usage of English on shop signs in the streets of Kigali and other towns in Rwanda at the expense of both French and Kinyarwanda. Unique quantitative language data documented in streets before 2008 are in this study compared to data …
Language, translocality and urban change
This article addresses the role of translocal interconnectedness between offline and online spaces by examining the varied presence of language displays in such spaces. Quantitative findings on language presence in the offline public spaces of four Gothenburg neighbourhoods are contrasted with the online presence found in three Swedish search portals, and the differences are interpreted in light of the broader socioeconomic processes of gentrific…
Introducing the political economy of language in place/space
In the last years, there has been a strong drive within Linguistic Landscape studies to 'go beyond the signs. ' This methodological challenge has often been interpreted as talking to the producers, owners, and readers of signs in order to learn more about how they conceptualize the value and meaning of signs and languages in place. This undertaking has contributed to underlining social agency in the production and interpretation of Linguistic Lan…
Navigating whiteness from the margins
This paper examines the relationship between language, (in)visibility, and (im)mobility in racialized spaces, focusing on Finnish, Somali, and Arabic speakers in Sweden. Using a theoretical framework based on hegemonic whiteness and intersectionality, the study explores how multilingual practices and subjectivities intersect with race, religion, gender, and class to shape social visibility and mobility. The research draws on linguistic ethnograph…
Power dynamics of post-genocide street renaming in urban Rwanda - the territorial demarcation between the past and the present
Drawing on critical toponymy, and at the intersection of human geography, urban studies, and sociolinguistics, this qualitative study analyses the 2012 renaming of all Rwandan streets with a special focus on Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. Combining empirical data from document analysis and walking interviews with citizens in Kigali, the study critically analyses and contrasts post-independence street names to the new post-genocide names. In addit…
Mosques and belonging in Scandinavia
This study aims to demonstrate the importance of language in shaping the sense of belonging of mosques in Scandinavia. To do so, we draw upon Raffestin’s work on territoriality (1986, 2012) and combine it with linguistic theories of language politics, semiotic landscape and onomastics. By conceptualising mosques as institutions, in which language status, language choice and critical toponymy assume a pivotal role, the study seeks to highlight how…
Why language matters
This study examines whether purpose-built mosques in Oslo, Stockholm, and Copenhagen are embedded within their local contexts or whether they rather display ties to transnational Islamic networks. To address this question, we draw on an exploratory theoretical framework that integrates territorialization theory, the field of semiotic landscapes, and critical toponymy and conceptualizes mosques as assemblages. The study demonstrates that analyzing…
Reclaimed narratives
Drawing on the fields of cultural geography, critical toponymy and memory studies, this study investigates the names used by ordinary urban residents to navigate the streets of Kigali. In our study, we analyse the localised memories and narratives inscribed in these nonofficial names in relation to the cultural, political and social context of the spaces in question. Our empirical study, based on walk-along interviews conducted in the city centre…
Multilingual Education and Policy (14 obras) · Linguistics (11 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Swahili (6 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Politics (5 obras) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 obras) · Pedagogy (4 obras) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (4 obras)