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Direct linkSanden, Guro R. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2020
This paper examines the use of the two written Norwegian language standards, Nynorsk and Bokmål, by companies in Norway. By adopting a legal perspective on the language policy of Norway as stipulated by the Language Council of Norway (2005) and the Norwegian Ministry of Culture and Church (2008), the paper investigates how 492 of the largest…
Descriptors: Norwegian, Language Variation, Written Language, Standards
Scientific Concepts as Meaning-Making Resources for Young EFL Learners in the Learning of Pragmatics
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Download full textMyrset, Anders – Intercultural Communication Education, 2021
This article reports on a study investigating the role of scientific concepts in the metapragmatic awareness of Norwegian primary EFL learners following a four-week instructional intervention on requesting informed by sociocultural theory (Vygotsky, 2012/1934). Through introducing pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic dimensions of requesting, the…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Sass, Katharina – History of Education, 2020
This paper explores comparatively and historically why Nordic and Continental welfare and education regimes differ in the degree of comprehensiveness of their primary and lower secondary school systems. It analyses how school reforms, reform attempts and coalitions in the post-war decades were shaped by different cleavage structures in Norway and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational History, Welfare Services, Social Systems
Lexander, Kristin Vold; Androutsopoulos, Jannis – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
This paper contributes to current sociolinguistic research on the rapidly-changing landscape of digitally mediated communication (Androutsopoulos and Staehr 2018) by presenting mediagrams, a new method for research on transnational mediated interaction. Based on an ethnographic study of mediated multilingual communication in four families with…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Language Research, Computer Mediated Communication, Ethnography
Rindal, Ulrikke – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2014
This study investigates attitudes towards varieties of English among Norwegian adolescent learners and assesses the role of social evaluation for second language (L2) pronunciation choices by combining a verbal guise test with speaker commentary and reports of language choices. The results suggest that while American English is the most accessible…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Language Usage, Second Language Learning
Mills, Carl – 1988
Choice of second-person pronouns can help explain the intersection of language, personality, and culture. Changes in modern Norway are described in which the polite forms "de,""dem"/"dykk," and "deres"/"dykkar" have been replaced in all except commercial, government, or ultra-polite speech by the…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Diglossia, English, Foreign Countries
