The role of social factors in the shaping of language attitudes - with an evaluation of the concept of 'life style'

TY - JOUR

T1 - The role of social factors in the shaping of language attitudes - with an evaluation of the concept of 'life style'

AU - Pedersen, Inge Lise

PY - 2010/7

Y1 - 2010/7

N2 - The standardization processes of Danish, Swedish and Norwegian display large differences with Denmark and Norway at the opposite ends of the scale and Sweden in the middle. A closer historical study reveals significant differences between the modernization processes (demographic developments, types of industrialization, and modernization processes within agriculture). These differences led to different class alliances, a fact that has had a bearing on language attitudes and language change. In late modern society the notion of class seems to be problematic, and life style analysis has entered the sociolinguistic scene and seems well suited to keep a balance between determinism and agency in a post-traditional world.

AB - The standardization processes of Danish, Swedish and Norwegian display large differences with Denmark and Norway at the opposite ends of the scale and Sweden in the middle. A closer historical study reveals significant differences between the modernization processes (demographic developments, types of industrialization, and modernization processes within agriculture). These differences led to different class alliances, a fact that has had a bearing on language attitudes and language change. In late modern society the notion of class seems to be problematic, and life style analysis has entered the sociolinguistic scene and seems well suited to keep a balance between determinism and agency in a post-traditional world.

U2 - 10.1515/ijsl.2010.033

DO - 10.1515/ijsl.2010.033

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0165-2516

VL - 204

SP - 129

EP - 150

JO - International Journal of the Sociology of Language

JF - International Journal of the Sociology of Language

ER -