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Course ISL104

Icelandic Language and Society

Course offered :

Number of credits 15
Course offered (semester) Spring
Subject overlap ISL101
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Language of Instruction

Norwegian.

Pre-requirements

Students must have a good knowledge of the Norwegian language.

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 here: ISL104

Contact Information

Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies.

advice@lle.uib.no

Course offered (semester)

Spring

Language of Instruction

Norwegian.

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 here: ISL104

Pre-requirements

Students must have a good knowledge of the Norwegian language.

Subject Overlap

ISL101

Contact Information

Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies.

advice@lle.uib.no