Icelandic Language and Society

Undergraduate course

ECTS credits: 15
Teaching semesters
Course code: ISL104
Number of semesters: 1
Teaching language: Norwegian.
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Objectives and Content

Learning Outcomes

The course focuses on certain linguistic topics of modern Icelandic. The aim of the course is to give students a good knowledge of some linguistic topics of modern Icelandic. Those topics are historical development of the Icelandic language, word-formation and productivity, dialects, language policy (purism, neologism) and the relation between language and society. For further information about learning outcome, please see course description in Norwegian.

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Spring

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Required Previous Knowledge

Students must have a good knowledge of the Norwegian language.

Recommended Previous Knowledge

Credit Reduction due to Course Overlap

ISL101

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