Some Aspects of Language Planning in the Scandinavian Countries.
Abstract The present study deals with language planning and language policy in the Scandinavian countries and aims to sketch their peculiarities. The investigation is both diachronic und synchronic, using the historical-comparative method and making use of the research results of linguistic discipli...
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crdegruyter:10.2478/ausp-2019-0034 2023-05-15T16:48:57+02:00 Some Aspects of Language Planning in the Scandinavian Countries. Kelemen, Attila 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2019-0034 https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/ausp/11/3/article-p191.xml https://www.sciendo.com/pdf/10.2478/ausp-2019-0034 en eng Walter de Gruyter GmbH http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 CC-BY-NC-ND Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica volume 11, issue 3, page 191-203 ISSN 2391-8179 journal-article 2019 crdegruyter https://doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2019-0034 2022-07-08T14:11:50Z Abstract The present study deals with language planning and language policy in the Scandinavian countries and aims to sketch their peculiarities. The investigation is both diachronic und synchronic, using the historical-comparative method and making use of the research results of linguistic disciplines as language history, sociolinguistics, etc. Language planning and language policy in the Scandinavian countries are very powerful. In spite of the strong resemblances between the Scandinavian languages and the strong pan-Scandinavian tendencies, the language planning and the linguistic policy of each individual Scandinavian country show differing tendencies. Most consequently, language planning is carried out in Iceland. In Icelandic, purism has gone the furthest. Danish is the most conservative language, but it is also most tolerant towards the foreign words. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland De Gruyter (via Crossref) Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica 11 3 191 203 |
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Abstract The present study deals with language planning and language policy in the Scandinavian countries and aims to sketch their peculiarities. The investigation is both diachronic und synchronic, using the historical-comparative method and making use of the research results of linguistic disciplines as language history, sociolinguistics, etc. Language planning and language policy in the Scandinavian countries are very powerful. In spite of the strong resemblances between the Scandinavian languages and the strong pan-Scandinavian tendencies, the language planning and the linguistic policy of each individual Scandinavian country show differing tendencies. Most consequently, language planning is carried out in Iceland. In Icelandic, purism has gone the furthest. Danish is the most conservative language, but it is also most tolerant towards the foreign words. |
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Some Aspects of Language Planning in the Scandinavian Countries. |
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Some Aspects of Language Planning in the Scandinavian Countries. |
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Some Aspects of Language Planning in the Scandinavian Countries. |
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Some Aspects of Language Planning in the Scandinavian Countries. |
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