Language Planning as a Sociolinguistic Experiment: The Case of Modern Norwegian

· Edinburgh University Press
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230
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2014 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of the Norwegian nation following centuries of Danish rule. This book analyses how Norwegians defined, fought over, and developed their own independent Scandinavian language, differentiating it from Danish and Swedish, through language planning.

About the author

Ernst Håkon Jahr is Professor of Scandinavian Linguistics, Department of Nordic and Media Studies and Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Education, at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway

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