Pragmatic borrowing from English
The second issue of volume 48 (autumn 2025) of the Nordic Journal of Linguistics will be a special issue dedicated to pragmatic borrowing from English, edited by Helga Hilmisdóttir, Martina Huhtamäki and Susanna Karlsson. One of the more recent developments in the Nordic languages is the large increase of words and phrases borrowed from English that do not add to the propositional content of an utterance, but, instead, function as a discourse structuring device or index speakers’ attitude. As an umbrella term for this phenomenon, Andersen (2014:17) has suggested the term pragmatic borrowing, which he defines as ‘the incorporation of pragmatic and discourse features of a source language (SL) into a recipient language (RL)’. In this NJL special issue, we invite contributions that deal with pragmatic borrowing from English in contemporary languages of the Nordic region. We especially encourage submission of papers that focus on spoken language or informal written varieties such as social media. Papers may consider any theoretical perspective that takes into account empirical data, including but not limited to pragmatics, interactional linguistics, sociolinguistics, and experimental linguistics. We also strongly welcome work on minoritized languages and other traditionallyunderrepresented languages in the field.
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