Danish language legislation and de facto language policies

2024-11-21 Classification：language Click()
Author：Holmen, Anne

Article Title：Danish language legislation and de facto language policies

Abstract：
For many years Denmark has had a reputation for being laissez-faire in language matters. There is no explicit language legislation, and the Danish Language Council has mainly descriptive functions. However, there is a powerful standard language ideology, and in other societal domains such as education or immigration, language is heavily regulated. In this paper, I shall first give the background, i.e. the situation for the Danish language and other languages in Denmark, and then zoom in on the debate about the pros and cons of a language act supplemented with specific questions related to education or immigration to grasp the de facto language policies at play.

Keywords:  Language act; standardization; minority languages; de facto language policies

DOI: 10.1080/14664208.2024.2326335

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