Contemporary Language Situation in Scandinavia I - ASK600100

• Title: Aktuelle sprogtendenser i Skandinavien I
• Form of teaching: seminar
• Guaranteed by: Department of Germanic and Nordic Studies (21-UGS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2025
• Duration in semesters: 1
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unlimited (unknown)
• Maximum number of enrolled students: unlimited
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: Danish
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Repeated enrollment: 2 / 2 / 2 / 2
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: Mgr. Radka Stahr, Ph.D.; PhDr. Pavel Dubec, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): PhDr. Pavel Dubec, Ph.D.; Mgr. et Mgr. Jan Mrva, Ph.D.; Mgr. Radka Stahr, Ph.D.

Annotation

The course will introduce the main language phenomena in Scandinavia. The focus will be equally distributed between Denmark, Norway and Sweden. In addition, selected peripheral topics will be included as well, covering areas such as Iceland.
Main topic:
• Loanwords in Scandinavian languages (main tendencies, adoption criteria, anglicisms)
• The role of dialects in Scandinavia
• Language contact (diachronic and synchronic perspectives)
• Klarspråk
• Minority languages in Scandinavia (history, current status)

Last update: Dubec Pavel, PhDr., Ph.D. (16.01.2024)

Course completion requirements

English

- 80 % attendance

- active participation in the classes

- passed final exam

Last update: Dubec Pavel, PhDr., Ph.D. (16.01.2024)

Czech

- 80 % attendance

- active participation in the classes

- passed final exam

Last update: Pastyříková Iveta, Mgr. (01.02.2024)

Literature

Andersen, H. L. (2022). Kønsidentitet i sproget – med eksempler fra dansk og fransk. Sprogforum. Tidsskrift for Sprog- Og kulturpædagogik, 28(74).

Andersen, M. H. (2020). Engelske lån i dansk: Nice to have eller need to have?. NyS, Nydanske Sprogstudier, 1(58).

Gottlieb, H. (2004). Danish Echoes of English. Nordic Journal of English Studies , 3(2), p.39-65.

Pedersen, I. L. (2000). Sprogkontakt, sprogpåvirkning – og sprogpolitik. Sprog I Norden, 31(1)

Søndergaard, Bent (1991). „Om sproglig ‘urenhed’ i en dansksproget avis set i et finlandssvensk perspektiv“. In: Språkbruk 4, 14-17.

Last update: Zbytovský Štěpán, Mgr., Ph.D. (31.01.2024)