Purisma og hjáveiða

Translated title of the contribution: Purism and subsidiary catch

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Abstract

The article focuses on two unintended consequences of purism in the Faroe Islands: 1) the purism has caused an increase in the Faroese lexicon, because many neologisms do not manage to replace the import words. The result is a lot of synonyms, one neologism and one import word.
2) the purism is a reason to the big gap between speech and written language in Faroese.
Translated title of the contributionPurism and subsidiary catch
Original languageFaroese
Pages26-32
Number of pages6
Volume88. bind
Specialist publicationVarðin
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2021

Keywords

  • Faroese
  • purism

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