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Publication details [#41688]

Melander, Bjorn. 2000. Swedish, English and the European Union. Current Issues in Language & Society 7 (1) : 13–31.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language dominance | language of wider communication | language shift | language use

Language as a subject

English | Swedish

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper examines the linguistic effects of an increased 'Englishisation' in Sweden, dealing with English loanwords, the dominating role of English as a source language for translations, and losses of domains of use to English.