Florian Hi
Biographic Data
| ID | 735561 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Florian Hi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Florian |
| FAMILY NAME | Hi |
| SIGNATURE | HI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | UiT The Arctic University of Norway |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0677-8705 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Learnings from/about diversity in space and time
This article critically examines the discourses concerning historical and transnational linguistic and cultural diversity in the semiotic landscape of a new teacher education building in Norway. In 2020, this building, housing the Department of Education, opened at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, in the city of Tromsø. Designing, constructing, and decorating a new building for a national teacher education was taken as an opportunity to refle…
The working language is Norwegian. Not that this means anything, it seems”
Linguistic and cultural diversity in Northern Norwegian working life has increased dramatically in the twenty-first century. Based on a series of telephone interviews with company representatives, this article presents an overview of the new multilingual reality in many workplaces and analyzes how managers and administrators position their expectations and experiences of it. Participants’ responses suggest that many workplaces are linguistically …
Multilingual encounters in Northern Norway
Norway has always been a multilingual society; Sami languages have been spoken in vast geographical areas since prehistoric times, the Kven and other historical minority groups settled in the count
Talk, time, and creativity
Workplace multilingualism in shifting contexts
This article investigates linguistic diversity, migration, and labour in the case of a nineteenth-century copper mine in the multilingual northern periphery of Norway. Taking a historical perspective on workplace multilingualism, it reveals the dynamic relationships between the economic interests and policy-making of an industrial enterprise and the political and sociolinguistic development in a multilingual region, at a time when national author…
Engagement in Sámi language revitalization
In the context of the endangered situation and revitalization of Sámi in a Northern Norwegian local community, this study discusses various aspects of responsibility that are construed and involved in the encounter of a local informant and the researcher in a research interview. The informant uses storytelling as an artful and elaborate means to position himself, to assess his own and other community members’ responsibility for their endangered h…
Tromsø as a “Sámi Town”? – Language ideologies, attitudes, and debates surrounding bilingual language policies
Workplace multilingualism in shifting contexts
This article investigates linguistic diversity, migration, and labour in the case of a nineteenth-century copper mine in the multilingual northern periphery of Norway. Taking a historical perspective on workplace multilingualism, it reveals the dynamic relationships between the economic interests and policy-making of an industrial enterprise and the political and sociolinguistic development in a multilingual region, at a time when national author…
Tromsø as a “Sámi Town”? – Language ideologies, attitudes, and debates surrounding bilingual language policies
Learnings from/about diversity in space and time
This article critically examines the discourses concerning historical and transnational linguistic and cultural diversity in the semiotic landscape of a new teacher education building in Norway. In 2020, this building, housing the Department of Education, opened at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, in the city of Tromsø. Designing, constructing, and decorating a new building for a national teacher education was taken as an opportunity to refle…
Tromsø as a “Sámi Town”? – Language ideologies, attitudes, and debates surrounding bilingual language policies
Engagement in Sámi language revitalization
In the context of the endangered situation and revitalization of Sámi in a Northern Norwegian local community, this study discusses various aspects of responsibility that are construed and involved in the encounter of a local informant and the researcher in a research interview. The informant uses storytelling as an artful and elaborate means to position himself, to assess his own and other community members’ responsibility for their endangered h…
Workplace multilingualism in shifting contexts
This article investigates linguistic diversity, migration, and labour in the case of a nineteenth-century copper mine in the multilingual northern periphery of Norway. Taking a historical perspective on workplace multilingualism, it reveals the dynamic relationships between the economic interests and policy-making of an industrial enterprise and the political and sociolinguistic development in a multilingual region, at a time when national author…
Talk, time, and creativity
The working language is Norwegian. Not that this means anything, it seems”
Linguistic and cultural diversity in Northern Norwegian working life has increased dramatically in the twenty-first century. Based on a series of telephone interviews with company representatives, this article presents an overview of the new multilingual reality in many workplaces and analyzes how managers and administrators position their expectations and experiences of it. Participants’ responses suggest that many workplaces are linguistically …
Multilingual encounters in Northern Norway
Norway has always been a multilingual society; Sami languages have been spoken in vast geographical areas since prehistoric times, the Kven and other historical minority groups settled in the count
Learnings from/about diversity in space and time
This article critically examines the discourses concerning historical and transnational linguistic and cultural diversity in the semiotic landscape of a new teacher education building in Norway. In 2020, this building, housing the Department of Education, opened at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, in the city of Tromsø. Designing, constructing, and decorating a new building for a national teacher education was taken as an opportunity to refle…
Linguistics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (5 works) · Norwegian (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (2 works)