Translocated Danish in Northern Europe: The case of Faroe Danish and Dano-Norwegian
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Karoline Kühl
Abstract
The paper contains a descriptive analysis of the development of translocated Danish in historical Norway and the Faroes within a framework of postcolonial linguistic development, namely the ‘Dynamic Model of Postcolonial Englishes’ (Schneider 2009), originally proposed to cover the evolution of postcolonial varieties of English. The paper compares the socio-political development of the two territories and their relationship with Denmark, the identity constructions of the speakers, the sociolinguistic setting with regard to attitudes and language contact and, finally, the linguistic characteristics of the local varieties of Danish. Despite the fact that neither the Faroes nor Norway had actual colonial status, the development from historical Dano-Norwegian to today’s Bokmål follows a postcolonial path closely in that it shows a completed advancement from a translocated Danish to an indigenous variety, Bokmål. In contrast, the comparison with Norway and the other postcolonial situations which the ‘Dynamic Model’ is based on, shows that the evolution of Faroe- Danish does not follow a postcolonial path. This local variety of Danish seems to be best characterized as a lingua franca learned as an (early) L2 that is entrenched within the Faroese society which shows but few signs of nativization.
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- Titelei
- Inhalt
- Vorwort/Preface/Préface
- Unraveling multilingualism in times past
- Zum Sprachwandel und zur Interaktion von Sprachsystemen
- Fragmentary ancient languages as “bad data”
- Translocated Danish in Northern Europe: The case of Faroe Danish and Dano-Norwegian
- Au coeur d’un « carrefour des langues »
- A turn of the century courtship
- Standard language ideology and Dutch school inspection reports (1801–1854)
- Sprachenpolitik, Sprachideologie und Sprachgebrauch in Luxemburg
- Berichte über Länder, Forschungszentren und Konferenzen/Reports on Countries, Research Centres and Conferences/Rapports sur les pays, centres de recherche et conférences
- CALS Centre for Applied Language Studies/ Lárionad na dTeangacha Feighmeacha
- Besprechungen/Reviews/Comptes rendus
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- Stevenson, Patrick (2017): Language and Migration in a Multilingual Metropolis. Berlin Lives. UK: Palgrave Macmillan. 221 pp. £66.99.
- Tacke, Felix (2015): Sprache und Raum in der Romania. Fallstudien zu Belgien, Frankreich, der Schweiz und Spanien (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, 395). Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter. XI, 344 S., gebunden. 99,95 €.
- Gadet, Françoise (ouvrage coordonné par) (2017) : Les parlers jeunes dans l’Ile-de- France multiculturelle. (coll. L’essentiel français). Paris : Ophrys. 174 pp.
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- Dovalil, Vít/Šichová, Kateřina (2017): Sprach(en)politik, Sprachplanung und Sprachmanagement (Literaturhinweise zur Linguistik, Bd. 6). Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter. 90 S.
- Bibliographie/Bibliography/Bibliographie 2015
- Korrespondenten/Correspondents/Correspondants
- Anschriften der Autoren/Addresses of the authors/Adresses des auteurs
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelei
- Inhalt
- Vorwort/Preface/Préface
- Unraveling multilingualism in times past
- Zum Sprachwandel und zur Interaktion von Sprachsystemen
- Fragmentary ancient languages as “bad data”
- Translocated Danish in Northern Europe: The case of Faroe Danish and Dano-Norwegian
- Au coeur d’un « carrefour des langues »
- A turn of the century courtship
- Standard language ideology and Dutch school inspection reports (1801–1854)
- Sprachenpolitik, Sprachideologie und Sprachgebrauch in Luxemburg
- Berichte über Länder, Forschungszentren und Konferenzen/Reports on Countries, Research Centres and Conferences/Rapports sur les pays, centres de recherche et conférences
- CALS Centre for Applied Language Studies/ Lárionad na dTeangacha Feighmeacha
- Besprechungen/Reviews/Comptes rendus
- Barstard, Guri Ellen/Hjelde, Arnstein/Kvam, Sigmund/Parianou, Anastasia/ Todd, John (eds.) (2016): Language and Nation. Crossroads and Connections. Münster/New York : Waxmann. 320 pp. ISBN 978-3-8309-3497-4.
- Stevenson, Patrick (2017): Language and Migration in a Multilingual Metropolis. Berlin Lives. UK: Palgrave Macmillan. 221 pp. £66.99.
- Tacke, Felix (2015): Sprache und Raum in der Romania. Fallstudien zu Belgien, Frankreich, der Schweiz und Spanien (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, 395). Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter. XI, 344 S., gebunden. 99,95 €.
- Gadet, Françoise (ouvrage coordonné par) (2017) : Les parlers jeunes dans l’Ile-de- France multiculturelle. (coll. L’essentiel français). Paris : Ophrys. 174 pp.
- Linn, Andrew/Bermel, Neil/Ferguson, Gibson (eds.) (2015): Attitudes towards English in Europe. (English in Europe, Vol. 1). Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter Mouton. 347 S.
- Dovalil, Vít/Šichová, Kateřina (2017): Sprach(en)politik, Sprachplanung und Sprachmanagement (Literaturhinweise zur Linguistik, Bd. 6). Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter. 90 S.
- Bibliographie/Bibliography/Bibliographie 2015
- Korrespondenten/Correspondents/Correspondants
- Anschriften der Autoren/Addresses of the authors/Adresses des auteurs
