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Behöver vi en nationell språkpolitik?

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Summary, in English

The article presents an analysis of the status of Swedish in relation to the use of English in Sweden and gives some examples to show that Swedish as a national language is losing some functional domains to English. Based on basic democracy principles and the need for effective communication some arguments are given for a national policy to guarantee the status of Swedish and how such a policy could be implemented. The authors formulate two basic goals: (1) Swedish should be a complete language, i.e. a language for communication in every domain without trivializing the meaning. (2) Swedish should be the basic public language of the Swedish nation and society and be an official language in the European union.

Department/s

Publishing year

1997

Language

Swedish

Pages

5-16

Publication/Series

Språkvård

Volume

33

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Svenska språknämnden, Språkrådet

Topic

  • Languages and Literature

Keywords

  • national language
  • official language
  • functional domains
  • public language
  • Swedish
  • language politics

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0038-8440