Publications

Publication details [#30583]

Braunmüller, Kurt. 2002. Semicommunication and accommodation:observations from the linguistic situation in Scandinavia. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 12 (1) : 1–23.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

accommodation theory | code-switching | communication | dialect2

Language as a subject

Danish | Norwegian | Swedish

Place, Publisher

Blackwell Publishers Associates, Inc.

ISBN

0802-6106

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/ijal

Annotation

This paper argues that the inter-Scandinavian 'semicommunication' (Haugen, 1966) between Danes, Swedes and Norwegians can adequately be described in terms of accommodation, including instances of code-switching.