Pia Lane

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Pia Lane is a Professor of Multilingualism at MultiLing - Centre for Multilingualism in Society Across the Lifespan (MultiLing) at the University of Oslo where she was research leader for theme 3 at the centre: Multilingualism, ideologies and language policies.

She has investigated multilingualism from a range of theoretical perspectives, primarily drawing on data from Kven-speaking communities in Northern Norway, but also amongst Finnish-speakers in Canada. Her grammatical analyses are centred on code-switching, as in her recent article Kodeveksling og grammatisk samspill: Morfologisk integrasjon av norske substantiver, NOA. Norsk som andrespråk [Code-switching and grammatical interplay: Morphological integration of Norwegian nouns].

Her research addresses language as a part of a larger semiotic system, for instance showing how material objects are used as means for identity construction in a situation of language shift, outlined in the article Identities in action: a nexus analysis of identity construction and language shift. Visual Communication (2009). “We did what we thought was best for our children.” A Nexus Analysis of Language Shift in a Kven community, International Journal of the Sociology of Language (2010) also analyses language shift. She has primarily worked within the framework of nexus analysis (developed by Scollon and Scollon) and an introductory article on nexus analysis has been commissioned for the Handbook of Pragmatics (John Benjamins).

Currently, Pia Lane’s main research focus is multilingualism, language policy and discourse analysis, and she has been PI of the project Standardising Minority Languages. The project investigated sociopolitical aspects of the standardisation of five European minority languages, with a particular focus on the role of users in these processes and how users accept, resist and reject aspects of standardisation. Together with James Costa and Haley De Korne she has edited the volume Standardizing Minority LanguagesCompeting Ideologies of Authority and Authenticity in the Global Periphery, published Open Access by Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism.

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Pia Lane is a member of the core team of the Centre of Excellence Centre for Multilingualism in Society Across the Lifespan (MultiLing). She was a member of the Steering Committee, Management Committee and co-leader of the Working Group Indigenous minority languages Management Committee of the EU-financed network, New Speakers in a Multilingual Europe: Opportunities and Challenges (COST Action IS1306). The network is co-ordinated by Bernadette O'Rourke and Joan Pujolar. She is also a member of the AILA Research Network on Social and Affective Factors in Home Language Maintenance and Development, co-ordinated by Andrea Schalley and Susana Eisenchlas.

She is a member of the Norwegian Truth and Reconciliation Commission whose task is to investigate the Norwegianisation policy and injustice against the Sámi and Kvens/Norwegian Finns and propose measures for future reconciliation.

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Tags: Multilingualism, Sociolinguistics, Language ideologies, Language policy, Language Policy and Planning, Language revitalisation, Language shift, Language Endangerment, Ethnography, Nexus Analysis, Mediated Discourse Analysis, Multimodality, Narratives, Kven, Sámi

Lane, Pia; Costa, James and De Korne, Haley. 2017. Standardizing Minority LanguagesCompeting Ideologies of Authority and Authenticity in the Global Periphery Routledge
Lane, Pia and Makihara, Miki 2017. Indigenous peoples and their languages. In: García, Flores and Spotti (Eds.). Oxford Handbook of Language and Society, Oxford University Press, 299-230
Lane, Pia 2016. Standardising Kven: Participation and the role of users. Sociolinguistica 30, 105-124
Lane, Pia 2015. Minority language standardisation and the role of users. Language policy, 14, 3, 263–283
Lane, Pia 2014. Nexus Analysis. In: Östman and Verschueren (Eds.). Handbook of Pragmatics, John Benjaminssociolinguistica

Lane, Pia; Hagen, Kristin; Nøklestad, Anders & Priestley, Joel (2022). Creating a corpus for Kven, a minority language in Norway. Nordlyd. ISSN 0332-7531. 46(1), p. 159–170. doi: 10.7557/12.6345. Full text in Research Archive Show summary
Language documentation, including the development and use of corpora, is frequently linked to revitalisation. This is also the case for the Kven language, a Finnic minoritised language, traditionally spoken in the two northernmost counties of Norway. Kven is a recognised minority language in Norway, protected by the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. This status led to increased efforts to document Kven, including the development of the Ruija Corpus, consisting of recordings of interviews in Kven. The corpus was an important tool for the standardisation of Kven. In this article we describe how the corpus was developed and account for search functions, including a discussion of the limitations of the corpus. We also discuss the role of corpora and other online tools for language revitalisation, with a particular focus on the standardisation of Kven and conclude by reflecting on how expertise also resides with the speakers of an endangered language and that they have a right to be involved in efforts of language documentation and revitalisation.
Lane, Pia (2022). “It feels like now this is in our own language”: Religion, authenticity and belonging. In Lane, Pia; Kjelsvik, Bjørghild & Myhr, Annika Bøstein (Ed.), Negotiating Identities in Nordic Migrant Narratives: Crossing Borders and Telling Lives. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 978-3-030-89108-4.
Kjelsvik, Bjørghild; Lane, Pia & Myhr, Annika Bøstein (2022). Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of spoken, written and material narratives . In Lane, Pia; Kjelsvik, Bjørghild & Myhr, Annika Bøstein (Ed.), Negotiating Identities in Nordic Migrant Narratives: Crossing Borders and Telling Lives. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 978-3-030-89108-4. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-89109-1_1.
Lane, Pia & Wigglesworth, Gillian (2021). From “Civilising Missions” to Indigenous Language Reclamation: Language policy, language shift and maintenance in Australia and Norway. In Røyneland, Unn & Blackwood, Robert (Ed.), Multilingualism across the Lifespan. Routledge. ISSN 9781003125815. Full text in Research Archive
Rasmus, Sini & Lane, Pia (2021). New speakers of Sámi: From insecurity to pride. Linguistic Minorities in Europe Online (LME). doi: 10.1515/lme.12818309. Full text in Research Archive
Lane, Pia (2019). Nexus Analysis and Multilingualism. In Darquennes, Jeroen; Salmons, Joseph C. & Vandenbussche, Wim (Ed.), Language Contact – An International Handbook. De Gruyter Mouton. ISSN 978-3-11-043325-8. doi: 10.1515/9783110435351-047.
Costa, James; De Korne, Haley Jean & Lane, Pia (2017). Standardising Minority Languages: Reinventing Peripheral Languages in the 21st Century. In Lane, Pia; Costa, James & De Korne, Haley Jean (Ed.), Standardizing minority languages: Competing ideologies of authority and authenticity in the global periphery. Routledge. ISSN 978-1-315-64772-2. p. 1–23.
Lane, Pia (2017). Language Standardisation as Frozen Mediated Actions. The Materiality of Language Standardisation. In Lane, Pia; Costa, James & De Korne, Haley Jean (Ed.), Standardizing minority languages: Competing ideologies of authority and authenticity in the global periphery. Routledge. ISSN 978-1-315-64772-2. p. 101–117. Full text in Research Archive
Lane, Pia & Räisänen, Anna-Kaisa (2017). Kven in Norway. In Seals, Corinne & Shah, Sheena (Ed.), Heritage Language Policies around the World. Routledge. ISSN 9781138193321. p. 69–83. doi: 10.4324/9781315639444-5.
Lane, Pia & Makihara, Miki (2017). Indigenous peoples and their languages. In Garcia, Ofelia; Flores, Nelson & Spotti, Max (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Language and Society. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780190212896. p. 299–320. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190212896.013.7.
Lane, Pia (2016). Standardising Kven: Participation and the role of users. Sociolinguistica : Internationales Jahrbuch fuer Europaeische Soziolinguistik. ISSN 0933-1883. 30(1), p. 105–124. doi: 10.1515/soci-2016-0007. Full text in Research Archive
Lane, Pia (2015). Minority language standardisation and the role of users. Language Policy. ISSN 1568-4555. 14(3), p. 263–283. doi: 10.1007/s10993-014-9342-y. Full text in Research Archive
Lane, Pia (2014). Nexus Analysis. In Östman, Jan-Ola & Verschueren, Jef (Ed.), Handbook of Pragmatics. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISSN 9789027233271.

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Lane, Pia; Kjelsvik, Bjørghild & Myhr, Annika Bøstein (2022). Negotiating Identities in Nordic Migrant Narratives: Crossing Borders and Telling Lives. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-030-89108-4. 236 p.
Lane, Pia; Costa, James & De Korne, Haley Jean (2017). Standardizing minority languages: Competing ideologies of authority and authenticity in the global periphery. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-315-64772-2. 249 p. Full text in Research Archive

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Lane, Pia (2022). Flerspråklighet.
Lane, Pia (2022). "Tenk at man ikke kan lese sitt eget språk!" Standardiseringens mange ansikter .
Johansen, Åse Mette & Lane, Pia (2022). Breaking silence: A longitudinal study of language shift.
Lane, Pia (2022). Ut av stillheten: Revitaliseringens paradokser.
Kvietok Duenas, Frances & Lane, Pia (2022). Indigenous experiences of language revitalization. Critical and decolonial perspectives on binary speaker categorizations.
Lane, Pia (2022). Forsker: Barna er viktig om kvensk språk skal reddes – men er det nok?
Lane, Pia (2022). The South in the North: Language shift, language reclamation and silences .
Lane, Pia & Ramstad, Liss Ellen (2021). Sannhets- og forsoningskommisjonen; Mandat, status og veien videre.
Lane, Pia (2021). Fra språktap til revitalisering.
Lane, Pia (2021). Caught unawares? Language shift and internalised ideologies.
Lane, Pia (2021). Minority language standardisation as mediated social action .
Solovova, Olga & Lane, Pia (2021). Northern borderscapes as material and historical frozen actions.
Lane, Pia Marit Johanne (2021). Multilingualism and language endangerment.
Røyneland, Unn; Lane, Pia & Grenoble, Lenore (2021). Linguistic Minorities in Europe online.
Solovova, Olga & Lane, Pia (2020). Russian in my head, Norwegian in my heart. Multilingualism in Sør-Varanger.
Lane, Pia (2020). Samiske språkbærere: fra stillhet til revitalisering.
Lane, Pia (2020). Language standardization as frozen mediated actions: the materiality of language standardization .
Lane, Pia (2019). Trajectories of vulnerabilities.
Lane, Pia (2019). Ny stolthet over morsmålet. [Newspaper]. Ruijan Kaiku.
Zachariassen, Ketil & Lane, Pia Marit Johanne (2019). Store forventninger møtte Sannhets- og forsoningskommisjonen. [Internet]. NRK Kvensk/NRK Kvääni .
Lane, Pia & Johansen, Åse Mette (2019). Introduction to revitalisation and reclamation in Northern Norway.
Zachariassen, Ketil & Lane, Pia Marit Johanne (2019). Norwegian TRC Presentation.
Lane, Pia (2019). Sannhetskommisjonen inn i tøft arbeid – NRK Kveeni. [Radio]. NRK .
Lane, Pia (2019). Vi skal ikke sitte fast i smerten, men komme oss videre. [Internet]. NRK.
Lane, Pia (2019). Effective practices in teaching of and education in minority languages .
Lane, Pia (2019). Paradoxes of language revitalisation.
Lane, Pia (2019). Reclaiming indigenous minority languages .
Lane, Pia & Solovova, Olga (2018). Linguistic landscapes in the Northern Borderlands - a nexus analysis.
Lane, Pia (2018). Out of silence. Reclaimin indigenous minority languages.
Johansen, Åse Mette; Lane, Pia & Olsen, Torjer Andreas (2018). Mangfold i utdanningssystemet – hva er dagens muligheter og utfordringer? Panelsamtale.
Lane, Pia (2018). Å ta språket sitt tilbake. En framtid for kvensk språk?
Lane, Pia (2018). Sannhetskommisjonen: – Arbeidet kan bli tøft. [Newspaper]. Utrop.
Lane, Pia (2018). Det umulige «N-ordet» . [Newspaper]. Aftenposten.
Lane, Pia (2018). Fakta og myter om flerspråklighet.
Lane, Pia (2018). Out of silence. Reclaiming indigenous minority languages.
Lane, Pia (2018). Language rights – perspectives from Norway. Standardisation of Kven .
Lane, Pia (2017). Introduction: New Speakers and the European Charter of Regional and Minority Languages.
Lane, Pia (2017). Standardisering av kvensk.
Lane, Pia (2017). Abels Tårn. [TV]. NRK2.
Lane, Pia (2017). Multilingualism across the lifespan (Invited featured panel).
Lane, Pia (2016). Minority language standardisation as social action.
Lanza, Elizabeth; Røyneland, Unn & Lane, Pia (2016). MultiLing. Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan: A Center of Excellence in Norway. Sociolinguistica : Internationales Jahrbuch fuer Europaeische Soziolinguistik. ISSN 0933-1883. p. 223–231.
Lane, Pia (2016). Arrival - filmanmeldelse. [Radio]. Kulturhuset.
Lane, Pia (2016). Fleirspråklegheit i nord: språk og identitet.
Lane, Pia (2016). Kvensk er en del av det vi er. [Newspaper]. Finnmarken.
Lane, Pia (2016). Hjertespråket. [Radio]. Språkteigen, NRK.
Lane, Pia & Keating, Clara (2016). New speakers and life trajectories - an analysis of language experiences of Portuguese migrant speakers and Kven heritage speakers.
Lane, Pia (2016). Abels Tårn. [Radio]. Ekko NRK P2.
Lane, Pia (2016). Reclaiming a minority language: Becoming a new speaker.
Lane, Pia (2015). It takes more than two to tango - tverrfaglig forskning på flerspråklighet.
Lane, Pia (2015). På språkjakt! Standardisering av kvensk språk.
Lane, Pia (2015). Abels Tårn. [Radio]. Ekko NRK P2.
Lane, Pia (2015). Abels Tårn. [Radio]. Ekko .
Lane, Pia & Costa, James (2015). The War of the Words: Minority language standardization and orthographic debates in the globalized European periphery.
Lane, Pia (2015). Språkstatus er ingen livsgaranti. [Newspaper]. Vårt Land.
Lane, Pia (2015). Tiårsjubileum for kvensk språk. [Radio]. Nyhetsettermiddag NRK.
McAlinden, Finn & Lane, Pia (2015). The Secret Language.
Lane, Pia (2015). Kvensk språk og identitet: Fra fornorskningspolitikk til offisielt minoritetsspråk.
Lane, Pia (2015). Abels Tårn. [Radio]. NRK Ekko.
Lane, Pia (2015). Standardiseringens to ansikt – metodologiske refleksjoner.
Lane, Pia (2015). Standardising minority languages: Emancipation or constraint?
Lane, Pia (2015). Minority language standardisation – methodological approaches.
Lane, Pia (2015). Minority language standardisation.
Lane, Pia (2015). Language shift.
Lane, Pia (2014). Catch me if you can: Minority language standardisation, variation and codification.
Lane, Pia (2014). Standardising minority languages and inscribing users.
Lane, Pia (2014). Abels Tårn. [Radio]. NRK Ekko.
Lane, Pia (2014). Hva har Bugøynes til felles med Lappe i Canada? [Newspaper]. Sør-Varanger Avis.
Lane, Pia (2014). Språkkontakt i Bugøynes og Lappe, Canada.
Lane, Pia (2014). Frozen in time? Social Actors and Minority Language Standardisation.
Lane, Pia (2014). Minority Language Standardisation: Users and non-users.
Lane, Pia (2014). ”What’s in it for me?” Prosjektsøknaden som virkemiddel til styrking av egen forskning, forskningsprofil og -nettverk.
Lane, Pia (2014). Fem myter om tospråklighet - lingvistisk myteknusing.
Lane, Pia (2014). Abels Tårn. [Radio]. NRK Ekko.
Lane, Pia (2013). Users and non-users. The standardisation of Kven.
Lane, Pia (2013). Stemmen vår. [Newspaper]. VG Helg.
Lane, Pia (2013). “It feels like now this is in our own language”: Religion, authenticity and belonging.
Lane, Pia (2013). Minoritetsspråkspolitikk og språkvalg – en longitudinell analyse av språkskifte.
Golden, Anne; Lane, Pia ; Lanza, Elizabeth; Ryen, Else; Simonsen, Hanne Gram & Svendsen, Bente Ailin (2013). Finn fem feil i debatten om tospråklighet. Aftenposten Innsikt. ISSN 1890-6931.
Golden, Anne; Lane, Pia ; Lanza, Elizabeth; Ryen, Else; Simonsen, Hanne Gram & Svendsen, Bente Ailin (2013). Bred enighet i internasjonal forskning om fordeler ved tospråklighet. Aftenposten Innsikt. ISSN 1890-6931.
Lane, Pia (2013). Abels Tårn, Ekko. [Radio]. NRK.
Lane, Pia (2013). Den stille kampen: Kampen for språket.
Lane, Pia (2013). Den stille kampen: Urfolk i en ny tid. [TV]. NRK2.
Lane, Pia; Lanza, Elizabeth & Pennycook, Alastair (2019). Family multilingualism: Language practices and ideologies of Brazilian-Norwegian families in Norway. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive
Lane, Pia & Walsh, John (2014). Report on conceptualisations of new speakerness in the case of indigenous minority languages. New speakers in a munltilingual Europe, ISCH COST Action IS1306 .

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