Publications

Publication details [#53643]

Östman, Jan-Ola and Jacob Thøgersen. 2010. Language attitudes and the ideology of the Nordic. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2010 (204) : 97–127.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

historical explanation | ideology | language and society | language attitude | modernization

Language as a subject

Languages, Scandinavian

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study explores the current, late modern situation of the ideology of the Nordic (societies as an imagined community), where ideology is menaced by more “rational” (e.g. financial) lines of thinking.