The Second-Class Norwegian: Marginalisation of Nynorsk in Norwegian Business

Autor/in	Sanden, Guro R.
Titel	The Second-Class Norwegian: Marginalisation of Nynorsk in Norwegian Business
Quelle	In: Current Issues in Language Planning, 21 (2020) 2, S.202-228 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Sanden, Guro R.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1747-7506
DOI	10.1080/14664208.2019.1697556
Schlagwörter	Norwegian; Language Variation; Written Language; Standards; Language Planning; Business Communication; Corporations; Language Usage; Financial Audits; Language Maintenance; Foreign Countries; Laws; Municipalities; Dialects; Norway + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Norwegisch; Sprachenvielfalt; Geschriebene Sprache; Standard; Sprachwechsel; Unternehmenskommunikation; Unternehmen; Sprachgebrauch; Sprachpflege; Ausland; Law; Recht; Magistrat; Dialect; Dialekt; Norwegen
Abstract	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 companies in Norway measured by revenue comply with the language requirement of the Norwegian Accounting Act Article 3-4. The findings show that the use of Nynorsk is marginal, as only five companies presented their financial statements in Nynorsk for the financial year of 2015. The paper concludes that there is a gap between the objectives of the language policy and the linguistic reality in Norwegian business, and that the current language regulation fails to fully support the language policy goal of maintaining both Nynorsk and Bokmål as functional varieties of the Norwegian language. (As Provided).
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