This book presents, for the first time, an overarching, trans-Scandinavian, comprehensive
and comparable account of linguistic developments and practices in late modern urban …

This article approaches on-going sociolinguistic processes in Copenhagen by focusing on
the overt metalinguistic activities of a group of adolescents. The article sheds light on how …

This paper deals with the more traditional sociolinguistic area of language attitudes. Based
on data from the city of Århus, Denmark, I discuss the methods used in speaker evaluation …

Observations of heteroglossic practices have led to questioning of the usefulness of the
concepts of “language” or “variety” in research as well as pedagogy, and it has been argued …

In this article, we carry out an ethnographically informed sociolinguistic analysis of language
use in contemporary Danish rap. We contextualize our analytical observations by drawing …

In this paper I focus on sequences of interaction among youth where the participants engage
in classroom related activities (such as spelling, discussion of essays, etc.). My paper is …

Denmark has often been characterised as having a sociolinguistic history of particularly
strong standardisation of the spoken language. Denmark is described as possibly having …

The past two decades' new migration patterns and intensifying globalisation in Western
European contexts have resulted in what Vertovec (2007, 2010) has described as …

In this chapter I discuss encounters in a superdiverse Copenhagen school where
adolescents use, highlight and discuss terms associated with ethnicity. Three boys with a …

A recurrent theme in the public debate in contemporary Western Europe concerns the
cultural differences between ethnic minorities and majority populations. In the Danish …