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Finnish linguist and educator (1940–2023)

Tove Anita Skutnabb-Kangas^[1] (6 July 1940 – 29 May 2023) was a Finnish linguist and educator.

She is known for coining the term linguicism to refer to discrimination based on language.

Life

Skutnabb-Kangas was born in Helsinki, Finland, and her mother tongues were Finnish and Swedish.^[1][2][3] After receiving her education at single sex schools^[4] in Helsinki, she worked for a short time at the teacher training college.

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In 1967 and 1968, she was in the United States, where she worked for Einar Haugen at the Department of Nordic Languages at Harvard.^[4] After that she worked briefly as a teacher in Helsinki. From 1970, she worked as a scientist at universities in Finland and Denmark.

In 1976, she obtained her first doctorate in Helsinki;^[5] The subject of her doctorate was bilingualism. From 1995 to 2000, she taught at Roskilde Univers