Iceland’s “Egg of Life” and the Modern Media
This paper provides an overview of Icelandic language politics in the face of the challenges brought on by the modern media in a small country. It starts with a short glance at the beginnings of Icelandic linguistic politics in the nineteenth century to reveal the basic ideological premises and show...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:50|dedup_wf_001::9df77d978e6d5c5c7cb9d119958f37b9 2023-05-15T16:56:30+02:00 Iceland’s “Egg of Life” and the Modern Media Gauti Kristmannsson 2004-09-13 http://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/meta/2004-v49-n1-meta733/009020ar.pdf https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/meta/2004-v49-n1-meta733/009020ar.pdf https://doi.org/10.7202/009020ar https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/009020ar https://www.erudit.org/revue/meta/2004/v49/n1/009020ar.html https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/meta/2004-v49-n1-meta733/009020ar/ https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=869201 https://core.ac.uk/display/59238786 http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/009020ar https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2007431584 en eng Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal http://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/meta/2004-v49-n1-meta733/009020ar.pdf https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/meta/2004-v49-n1-meta733/009020ar.pdf http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/009020ar https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/009020ar https://www.erudit.org/revue/meta/2004/v49/n1/009020ar.html https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/meta/2004-v49-n1-meta733/009020ar/ https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=869201 https://core.ac.uk/display/59238786 http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/009020ar https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2007431584 undefined oai:erudit.org:009020ar 009020ar 10.7202/009020ar 2007431584 10|opendoar____::16e6a3326dd7d868cbc926602a61e4d0 10|openaire____::081b82f96300b6a6e3d282bad31cb6e2 10|issn___print::209cb45f89a7a309a941e936ce94102f 10|openaire____::8ac8380272269217cb09a928c8caa993 10|openaire____::5f532a3fc4f1ea403f37070f59a7a53a Sciences Humaines et Sociales Social Sciences and Humanities globalisation linguistic purism media translation nationalism native language ideology lang litt Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2004 fttriple https://doi.org/10.7202/009020ar 2023-01-22T17:15:28Z This paper provides an overview of Icelandic language politics in the face of the challenges brought on by the modern media in a small country. It starts with a short glance at the beginnings of Icelandic linguistic politics in the nineteenth century to reveal the basic ideological premises and show how they have been maintained in national discourse on the Icelandic language and the media. It then examines how the Icelandic national consensus on linguistic purism has been shaken by technological and political developments, in short the advancing globalisation of the media. These developments are reflected in the practices of media translation and changing attitudes towards translation. L’étude présente un aperçu de la politique linguistique en Islande qui, en sa qualité de petit pays, est particulièrement sensible à la confrontation avec les médias modernes. Elle débute par un bref historique de la politique linguistique islandaise, qui puise ses racines au XIXe siècle, afin d’introduire ses bases idéologiques et de démontrer à quel point ces dernières ont pu perdurer dans le débat national sur la langue et les médias. Elle traite ensuite de la manière dont le consensus sur le purisme linguistique a souffert des développements politiques et technologiques, bref de la mondialisation des médias. Ces développements transparaissent dans les pratiques de traduction des médias ainsi que dans l’approche évolutive de la traduction. Article in Journal/Newspaper Islande Unknown Meta 49 1 59 66 |
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This paper provides an overview of Icelandic language politics in the face of the challenges brought on by the modern media in a small country. It starts with a short glance at the beginnings of Icelandic linguistic politics in the nineteenth century to reveal the basic ideological premises and show how they have been maintained in national discourse on the Icelandic language and the media. It then examines how the Icelandic national consensus on linguistic purism has been shaken by technological and political developments, in short the advancing globalisation of the media. These developments are reflected in the practices of media translation and changing attitudes towards translation. L’étude présente un aperçu de la politique linguistique en Islande qui, en sa qualité de petit pays, est particulièrement sensible à la confrontation avec les médias modernes. Elle débute par un bref historique de la politique linguistique islandaise, qui puise ses racines au XIXe siècle, afin d’introduire ses bases idéologiques et de démontrer à quel point ces dernières ont pu perdurer dans le débat national sur la langue et les médias. Elle traite ensuite de la manière dont le consensus sur le purisme linguistique a souffert des développements politiques et technologiques, bref de la mondialisation des médias. Ces développements transparaissent dans les pratiques de traduction des médias ainsi que dans l’approche évolutive de la traduction. |
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