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Publication details [#56411]

Haberland, Hartmut and Janus Mortensen. 2012. English — the new Latin of academia? Danish universities as a case. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 216 : 175–197.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

historical explanation | language policy | motivation | multilingualism | university

Language as a subject

Danish | English | Latin

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper claims that the motivation for the actual use of English in Danish academia completely differs from the motivation underlying the use of Latin in early Danish university history and the motivation underpinning the use of Danish in more recent history.