Publications

Publication details [#41521]

Kristiansen, Tore. 2001. Two Standards: One for the Media and One for the School. Language Awareness 10 (1) : 9–24.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dialect1 | mass media | school | standardization | youth

Language as a subject

Danish

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This article argues that young Danes are changing the notion of Standard Danish by 'moving' it in the direction of 'low' Copenhagen speech, and that different standards prevail in school and business on the one hand, and in the media on the other.