Pia Lane

Professor of Multilingualism

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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. She is 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 is 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.

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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 Benjamins

Lane, Pia (2019). Nexus Analysis and Multilingualism, In Jeroen Darquennes; Joseph C. Salmons & Wim Vandenbussche (ed.), Language Contact – An International Handbook. Mouton de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-043325-8. 00.
Costa, James; De Korne, Haley Jean & Lane, Pia (2017). Standardising Minority Languages: Reinventing Peripheral Languages in the 21st Century, In Pia Lane; James Costa & Haley Jean De Korne (ed.), Standardizing minority languages: Competing ideologies of authority and authenticity in the global periphery. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-315-64772-2. 1. s 1 - 23
Lane, Pia (2017). Language Standardisation as Frozen Mediated Actions. The Materiality of Language Standardisation, In Pia Lane; James Costa & Haley Jean De Korne (ed.), Standardizing minority languages: Competing ideologies of authority and authenticity in the global periphery. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-315-64772-2. 6. s 101 - 117 Full text in Research Archive.
Lane, Pia & Makihara, Miki (2017). Indigenous peoples and their languages, In Ofelia Garcia; Nelson Flores & Max Spotti (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Language and Society. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190212896. Chapter 15. s 299 - 320
Lane, Pia & Räisänen, Anna-Kaisa (2017). Kven in Norway, In Corinne Seals & Sheena Shah (ed.), Heritage Language Policies around the World. Routledge. ISBN 9781138193321. Kapittel 5. s 69 - 83
Lane, Pia (2016). Standardising Kven: Participation and the role of users. Sociolinguistica : Internationales Jahrbuch fuer Europaeische Soziolinguistik. ISSN 0933-1883. 30(1), s 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), s 263- 283 . doi: 10.1007/s10993-014-9342-y Full text in Research Archive.
Lane, Pia (2014). Nexus Analysis, In Jan-Ola Östman & Jef Verschueren (ed.), Handbook of Pragmatics. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISBN 9789027233271. Kapittel.
Lane, Pia (2012). Kodeveksling og grammatisk samspill: Morfologisk integrasjon av norske substantiv. NOA. Norsk som andrespråk. ISSN 0801-3284. s 5- 22
Lane, Pia (2012). Multimodality and Culture, In C.A. Chapelle (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4051-9473-0. Multimodality.
Lane, Pia (2011). "Dette er mitt morsmål" : narrativer om språkvalg og språkskifte. Nordand : nordisk tidsskrift for andrespråksforskning. ISSN 0809-9227. 6(1), s 73- 87
Lane, Pia (2011). Dokumentasjon av kvensk og andre minoritetsspråk i nordområdene, I: Olav Orheim & Kristen Ulstein (red.), Polaråret 2007-2008. Det norske bidraget. Norsk forskningsråd. ISBN 9788212029026. Kapittel. s 161 - 163
Lane, Pia (2011). Neksusanalyse – minoritetsspråkpolitikk og språkskifte i et tospråklig samfunn, I: Tonje Raddum Hitching; Anne B Sølvberg Nilsen & Aslaug Veum (red.), Diskursanalyse i praksis. Metode og analyse. Cappelen Damm Høyskoleforlaget. ISBN 9788276349047. Kapittel 7. s 239 - 256
Lane, Pia Marit Johanne (2011). The Birth of the Kven Language in Norway: Emancipation through state recognition. International Journal of the Sociology of Language. ISSN 0165-2516. 2011(209), s 57- 74 . doi: 10.1515/IJSL.2011.021 Show summary
This article investigates and applies the concept of language emancipation to the situation of the Kven language in Norway. This is done from a historical perspective by addressing the role of language in the ideological construction of the Norwegian nation-state, and from a contemporary perspective through the analysis of the consequences of Norway's ratification of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. This ratification has lead to the recognition of Kven as a language. Through describing the historical development of Norwegian language policy with regard to Kven, this article discusses how this case is an example of nationalist or modernist language emancipation progressing to the contemporary situation where language emancipation processes reflect language policies which are in favor of Kven. This discussion is carried out in the context of current language ideology theory and shows that nationalist language emancipation is being reapplied in the contemporary language emancipation context. This is particularly the situation in the process of the standardization of Kven which, despite the best intentions of those involved, may result in a standard which not all Kven speakers can identify with.
Pietikäinen, Sari; Lane, Pia; Salo, Hanni & Laihiala-Kankainen, Sirkka (2011). Frozen Actions in Arctic Linguistic Landscape: A nexus analysis of language processes in visual space. International Journal of Multilingualism. ISSN 1479-0718. 8(4), s 277- 298

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Lane, Pia; Costa, James & De Korne, Haley Jean (ed.) (2017). Standardizing minority languages: Competing ideologies of authority and authenticity in the global periphery. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-315-64772-2. 249 s. Full text in Research Archive.

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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 (2019, 10. mai). Sannhetskommisjonen inn i tøft arbeid – NRK Kveeni. [Radio]. NRK.
Lane, Pia (2019, 10. mai). Vi skal ikke sitte fast i smerten, men komme oss videre. [Internett]. NRK.
Johansen, Åse Mette; Lane, Pia & Olsen, Torjer Andreas (2018). Mangfold i utdanningssystemet – hva er dagens muligheter og utfordringer? Panelsamtale.
Lane, Pia (2018, 09. august). Det umulige «N-ordet». Aftenposten.
Lane, Pia (2018). Fakta og myter om flerspråklighet.
Lane, Pia (2018). Language rights – perspectives from Norway. Standardisation of Kven.
Lane, Pia (2018). Out of silence. Reclaimin indigenous minority languages.
Lane, Pia (2018). Out of silence. Reclaiming indigenous minority languages.
Lane, Pia (2018, 29. juni). Sannhetskommisjonen: – Arbeidet kan bli tøft. Utrop.
Lane, Pia (2018). Å ta språket sitt tilbake. En framtid for kvensk språk?.
Lane, Pia (2017, 05. desember). Abels Tårn. [TV]. NRK2.
Lane, Pia (2017). Introduction: New Speakers and the European Charter of Regional and Minority Languages.
Lane, Pia (2017). Multilingualism across the lifespan (Invited featured panel).
Lane, Pia (2017). Standardisering av kvensk.
Lane, Pia (2016, 16. februar). Abels Tårn. [Radio]. Ekko NRK P2.
Lane, Pia (2016, 08. november). Arrival - filmanmeldelse. [Radio]. Kulturhuset.
Lane, Pia (2016). Fleirspråklegheit i nord: språk og identitet.
Lane, Pia (2016, 05. juni). Hjertespråket. [Radio]. Språkteigen, NRK.
Lane, Pia (2016, 31. oktober). Kvensk er en del av det vi er. Finnmarken.
Lane, Pia (2016). Minority language standardisation as social action.
Lane, Pia (2016). Reclaiming a minority language: Becoming a new speaker.
Lane, Pia & Keating, Clara (2016). New speakers and life trajectories - an analysis of language experiences of Portuguese migrant speakers and Kven heritage speakers.
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. s 223- 231
Lane, Pia (2015, 13. november). Abels Tårn. [Radio]. Ekko NRK P2.
Lane, Pia (2015, 23. oktober). Abels Tårn. [Radio]. Ekko.
Lane, Pia (2015, 17. april). Abels Tårn. [Radio]. NRK Ekko.
Lane, Pia (2015). It takes more than two to tango - tverrfaglig forskning på flerspråklighet.
Lane, Pia (2015). Kvensk språk og identitet: Fra fornorskningspolitikk til offisielt minoritetsspråk.
Lane, Pia (2015). Language shift.
Lane, Pia (2015). Minority language standardisation.
Lane, Pia (2015). Minority language standardisation – methodological approaches.
Lane, Pia (2015). På språkjakt! Standardisering av kvensk språk.
Lane, Pia (2015, 28. mai). Språkstatus er ingen livsgaranti. Vårt Land.
Lane, Pia (2015). Standardiseringens to ansikt – metodologiske refleksjoner.
Lane, Pia (2015). Standardising minority languages: Emancipation or constraint?.
Lane, Pia (2015, 27. mai). Tiårsjubileum for kvensk språk. [Radio]. Nyhetsettermiddag NRK.
Lane, Pia & Costa, James (2015). The War of the Words: Minority language standardization and orthographic debates in the globalized European periphery.
McAlinden, Finn & Lane, Pia (2015). The Secret Language.
Lane, Pia (2014, 31. oktober). Abels Tårn. [Radio]. NRK Ekko.
Lane, Pia (2014, 11. april). Abels Tårn. [Radio]. NRK Ekko.
Lane, Pia (2014). Catch me if you can: Minority language standardisation, variation and codification.
Lane, Pia (2014). Fem myter om tospråklighet - lingvistisk myteknusing.
Lane, Pia (2014). Frozen in time? Social Actors and Minority Language Standardisation.
Lane, Pia (2014, 27. juli). Hva har Bugøynes til felles med Lappe i Canada?. Sør-Varanger Avis.
Lane, Pia (2014). Minority Language Standardisation: Users and non-users.
Lane, Pia (2014). Språkkontakt i Bugøynes og Lappe, Canada.
Lane, Pia (2014). Standardising minority languages and inscribing users.
Lane, Pia (2014). ”What’s in it for me?” Prosjektsøknaden som virkemiddel til styrking av egen forskning, forskningsprofil og -nettverk.
Lane, Pia & Walsh, John (2014). Report on conceptualisations of new speakerness in the case of indigenous minority languages.
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.
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.
Lane, Pia (2013). A language of our own? Minority language standardisation, emancipation and authenticity.
Lane, Pia (2013). A lost language? Language shift and identity construction.
Lane, Pia (2013, 20. desember). Abels Tårn, Ekko. [Radio]. NRK.
Lane, Pia (2013, 25. november). Den stille kampen: Kampen for språket. [TV].
Lane, Pia (2013, 21. november). Den stille kampen: Urfolk i en ny tid. [TV]. NRK2.
Lane, Pia (2013). En (u)mulig karriere i akademia?.
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.
Lane, Pia (2013). Minority Language Standardisation and the Role of Users.
Lane, Pia (2013). Språklig mangfold i Norge.
Lane, Pia (2013, 20. oktober). Standardisering av minoritetsspråk. [Radio]. Språkteigen. NRK.
Lane, Pia (2013, 19. oktober). Stemmen vår. VG Helg.
Lane, Pia (2013). Users and non-users. The standardisation of Kven.
Lane, Pia (2012). Humanioras relevans: sosiolingvistikk og flerspråklighet.
Lane, Pia (2012). Standardising minority languages.
Lane, Pia (2012). Én fot i forskningen, en i samfunnet. HF-aktuelt.
Kjelsvik, Bjørghild & Lane, Pia (2011). Kva kjenneteiknar etnografiske metodar i diskursanalyse?, I: Tonje Raddum Hitching; Anne B Sølvberg Nilsen & Aslaug Veum (red.), Diskursanalyse i praksis. Metode og analyse. Cappelen Damm Høyskoleforlaget. ISBN 9788276349047. Del 5: Etnografisk diskursanalyse: Innleiing. s 235 - 238
Lane, Pia (2011). Code-switching.
Lane, Pia (2011). Country report on national language legislation - Norway.
Lane, Pia (2011). Field methods - a sociolinguistic and anthropological approach.
Lane, Pia (2011). Hva er norskhet? Minoritetsspråkenes rolle i nasjonalstaten.
Lane, Pia (2011, 04. april). Hvem får morsmålsundervisning?/Kuka saa äidinkielen opetusta?. NFF-Nytt - Norsk-finsk forening.
Lane, Pia (2011). Kvinner i forskning- noen refleksjoner.
Lane, Pia (2011). Language revitalisation – transnational flows and discourses.
Lane, Pia (2011). Legal provisions of minority/regional languages: the ECRML regime in theory and practice.
Lane, Pia (2011). Standardising minority languages – burden or progress?.
Lane, Pia (2011). 'To me this is my mother tongue'. Narratives as a tool for analysing language shift. Show summary
Studies of language shift often are retrospective: due to the lack of longitudinal data speakers are asked about choices made in the past. This lecture presents a real-time study of language shift in Bugøynes, a Kven community in Northern Norway, by comparing and contrasting stories of language choice told by the same individuals in 1975 and 2009.. The minorities in Northern Norway went through a period of linguistic and cultural oppression during the Norwegian nation building process in the 19th century. Many Kven and Sámis came to regard their mother tongue as languages of little value and spoke Norwegian only to their children, leading to a loss of intergenerational language transmission (Fishman 1991). In 1975 the oppressive policies had just been abandoned, but the children who grew up in the 70s were spoken to in Norwegian only. Thus, the interviews in 1975 were conducted at the onset of language shift. Today, there is another period of transition as the Kven language recently has been granted status as a language. In 1975, hardly anyone disputed the importance of speaking only Norwegian to their children. Now the power relations are less asymmetrical, other discourses have emerged and people question and challenge the previous policies of assimilation. Narratives can give insight into these complex dynamics between the individual and the social (Bamberg 2007), and further, narratives encompass the historical dimension essential for the study of language shift as they (re)construct the links between the past, present and future (Pavlenko and Blackledge 2004), connections which for the individual can be broken through the process of language shift. Narratives are told in real time, and through their telling we can identify trajectories to the past. Therefore, narratives are a useful methodological and theoretical tool for the analysis of language shift. Narratives have both a referential function (telling what happened) and an evaluative function (conveying the significance of what happene) and the retelling of a narrative strengthens its evaluative role because successive narratives incorporate parts of earlier stories (Schiffrin 2006). The narratives from Bugøynes provide information about factual events and also the people’s evaluation of these events and the significance attributed to them and hence, they shed light on the interrelationship between language and identity.
Lane, Pia (2011). Utrydningstruede språk i arktis– hva kan vi gjøre?.
Lane, Pia (2011). Writing for publishing.
Lane, Pia (2011). Writing proposals.

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