Syllabus
Basic book
2. Bucken-Knapp. Gregg 2003. Elites, Language, and the Politics of Identity. State University of New York Press/Høgskulen i Volda; chapter 1-4 (pp. 1-98). The book will be ordered at semester start.
Compendium 1
Haugen, Einar 1966. Language Conflict and Language Planning. The Case of Modern Norwegian. Harvard University Press; chapter 1-2 (pp. 1-61)
The remainder of Haugen's book will be presented in outline in the lectures.
Compendium 2
Jahr, Ernst Håkon; Limits of language planning? Norwegian language planning revisited. In: Coulmas Florian. (ed.). International Journal of the Sociology of Language 80, Berlin 1989 (pp. 33-39.)
Vikør, Lars S.; The position of standardized vs. dialectal speech in Norway In Coulmas Florian. (ed.). International Journal of the Sociology of Language 80, Berlin 1989 (pp. 41-59)
Vikør, Lars S.; The Relationship between Norms, Status and Regulations in a Theoretical Perspective. In; Røyneland, Unn (ed.): Language Contact and Language Conflict. Proceedings of the International Ivar Aasen Conference 14–16 November 1996, University of Oslo/Volda College 1997 (pp. 97-110)
Trudgill, Peter.; Norwegian as a Normal Language In; Røyneland, Unn (ed.): Language Contact and Language Conflict. Proceedings of the International Ivar Aasen Conference 14–16 November 1996, University of Oslo/Volda College 1997
Jahr, Ernst Håkon 2007; The planning of modern Norwegian as a sociolinguistic experiment – “from below”. In: Elspass, Stephan et al. (eds.): Germanic language histories 'from below' (1700-2000). Berlin/New York: de Gruyter (pp. 379-403)
Papazian, Eric, 2002; Norwegian ”Bokmål”: Present, past and future. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 25 (pp. 49-78)
Compendium 3
Jahr, Ernst H. 2003. Norwegian. In Ana Deumert & Wim Vandenbussche (eds.), Germanic standardizations: Past to present, 331-355. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Jahr, Ernst H. (1997). On the use of dialects in Norway. In Heinrich Ramisch & Kenneth Wynne (eds.), Language in time and space: Studies in honour of Wolfgang Viereck …, 363–369. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner.
Sandøy, Helge 2004: Types of society and language change in the Nordic countries. In: Britt-Louise Gunnarsson et al. (eds.) Language variation in Europe: papers from the Second International Conference on Language Variation in Europe, ICLaVE 2, Uppsala, 53-76.
Blom, Jan-Petter and John J. Gumperz. (1972). Social Meaning in Linguistic Structure: Code-Switching in Norway. In Gumperz, John J. and Dell Hymes, eds. 1986. Directions in Sociolinguistics: the Ethnography of Communication. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 407-434.
Kerswill, Paul 1996. Divergence and convergence of sociolinguistic structures in Norway and in England. Sociolinguistica 10, 89-104.
Opsahl, Toril : i Nordic Journal of Linguistics 32, 2009. Wolla I swear this is typical for the conversational style of adolescents in multiethnic areas in Oslo (s.221-244). http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=NJL&decade=2000&volumeId=32&issueId=02&iid=6417080.
Downloadable articles in journals
Røyneland, Unn: i International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 196/197, 2009. Dialects in Norway: catching up with the rest of Europe? (pp.7-30). http://www.swetswise.com/eAccess/viewToc.do?titleID=104344&yevoID=2456987.
Sandøy, Helge: i Folia Linguistica 32, 1998. The diffusion of a new morphology in Norwegian dialects (s. 83-100). http://www.reference-global.com/toc/flin/32/1-2.
Mæhlum, Brit: i Journal of Pragmatics 25, 1996. Codeswitching in Hemnesberget — Myth or reality? (s.749–761). http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=PublicationURL&_tockey=%23TOC%235965%231996%23999749993%2367407%23FLP%23&_cdi=5965&_pubType=J&_auth=y&_acct=C000036598&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=674998&md5=db95b880292727547fbf5f5a2b6f9022.
Solheim, Randi : i . Nordic Journal of Linguistics 32, 2009. Dialect development in a melting pot. The formation of a new culture and a new dialect in the industrial town of Høyanger (s.191 – 207). http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=NJL&decade=2000&volumeId=32&issueId=02&iid=6417080.
Svendsen, Bente Ailin & Unn Røyneland : i International Journal of Bilingualism, 12, 2008. Multiethnolectal facts and functions in Oslo, Norway (s.63-83). http://www.swetswise.com/eAccess/viewToc.do?titleID=103546&yevoID=2418548.
Forthcoming articles that will be distributed in class
Hårstad, Stian (forthc.): Performing ’Dangerousness’ Linguistically: The Case of ’Bad Norwegian’ on the Streets of Trondheim. In J.N. Jørgensen et al. (red.) /Jugendsprache – Youthlanguage. Proceedings from the 5th Jugendsprache Conference 2008/. Cambridge Scholars/Copenhagen Studies in Bilingualism.
Brunstad, Endre, Unn Røyneland & Toril Opsahl (forthc): Hip-hop, ethnicity and linguistic practice in rural and urban Norway. In Marina Terkourafi (ed.) The Languages of Global Hip-hop. London: Continuum.
Opsahl, Toril & Ingvild Nistov (forthc.): On some structural aspects of Norwegian spoken among adolescents in multilingual settings in Oslo", in P. Quist & B. A. Svendsen (eds), Multiethnolects in urban Scandinavia. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
Svendsen, Bente Ailin (forthc.): "Linguistic practices in multilingual urban contexts in Norway: An overview", in P. Quist & B. A. Svendsen (eds.), Multiethnolects in urban Scandinavia. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
Aarsæther, Finn (forthc.): "The use of multiethnic youth language in Oslo", in P. Quist & B. A. Svendsen (eds.), Multiethnolects in urban Scandinavia. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.