User:Tidtrøyte/Jorunn Simonsen Thingnes

Jorunn Simonsen Thingnes (born 1990) is a norwegian linguist and associate professor at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.

Born in Jølster, Thingnes studied at the University of Oslo, and earned her ph.d at the Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan with the title ''To choose or not to choose minoritised languages. Language policy and language choices in academia.''

Thingnes was a board memer at the The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Oslo.

Research
In her thesis, Thingnes draws attention to minoritised languages in Norwegian academia, more specifically Nynorsk and Northern Sámi, and their status at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences and Sámi University of Applied Sciences. Key topics in the thesis include language policy processes, language policy actors and legitimacy.

Thingnes adopts the term minoritized languages to describe the status of Nynorsk and the Sámi languages in certain contexts.