Publications

Publication details [#55009]

Lane, Pia. 2011. The birth of the Kven language in Norway: emancipation through state recognition. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2011 (209) : 57–78.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

emancipatory linguistics | historical linguistics | language policy | modernization | standardization

Language as a subject

Kven

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper discusses how the case of the Kven language recognition constitutes an example of nationalist or modernist language emancipation via Norwegian state recognition.