Publications

Publication details [#53641]

Sandoy, Helge, Ásta Svavarsdóttir and Ulla Paatola. 2010. English influence on the spoken language — with a special focus on its social, semantic and functional conditioning. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2010 (204) : 43–58.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adaptation | language dominance | morphology | sociolinguistics | spoken language

Language as a subject

English | Languages, Nordic

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This paper explores the impact of English on the spoken (and written) language in the Nordic area, focusing in particular on its social, semantic and functional determination.