Signe Laake
List of John Benjamins publications in which Signe Laake is involved.
Articles
2025 Lexical change is the only constant: Language change in Norwegian lower secondary school textbooks Historical Linguistics at School, Markopoulos, Theodore and Brian D. Joseph (eds.), pp. 231–253 | Article
In this study, we look at how language change is presented in two commonly used textbooks for Norwegian lower secondary school. Through thematic content analysis, we look at how linguistic change is presented as opposed to purely synchronic descriptions, as well as how linguistic changes are… read more
2015 On Two Myths of the Norwegian Language in America: Is it Old-Fashioned? Is it Approaching the Written Bokmål Standard? Germanic Heritage Languages in North America: Acquisition, attrition and change, Johannessen, Janne Bondi † and Joseph C. Salmons (eds.), pp. 299–322 | Article
The article discusses two claims about Heritage Norwegian in the American Midwest. One is that the Norwegian-speaking descendants of Norwegian immigrants speak an ‘archaic’ form of Norwegian. The other is that their language approaches the written Norwegian Bokmål standard, i.e., has moved away… read more