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Publication details [#51035]

Lønsmann, Dorte. 2009. From subculture to mainstream: The spread of English in Denmark. Journal of Pragmatics 41 (6) : 1139–1151.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code-switching | language use | style | subculture | youth

Language as a subject

Danish | English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper examines how the particular Anglo-American (computer gaming) subcultural language style in Denmark, featuring frequent codeswitching to English, is preserved and diffused in and beyond the youth subculture via local and global social networks.