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Publication details [#57752]

Malai Madsen, Lian. 2013. “High” and “low” in urban Danish speech styles. Language in Society 42 (2) : 115–138.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adolescent | ethnicity | language use | social status | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

Danish

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper explores how social status relations acknowledged as cultural interpretations of societal “high” and “low” are apposite to running social value assignations to the contrasting speech styles referred to as “integrated” and “street language” in a group of urban Danish adolescents.