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Introduction: Sociolinguistics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2009

Frans Gregersen
Affiliation:
The National Danish Research Foundation LANCHART Centre, University of Copenhagen, Njalsgade 136, building 27, floor 5, 2300 København S, Denmark. fg@hum.ku.dk
Unn Røyneland
Affiliation:
Unn Røyneland, Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo, P.O. Box, 1102 Blindern, N-0317 Oslo, Norway. unn.royneland@iln.uio.no
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First of all we want to thank the general editors of the Nordic Journal of Linguistics for this opportunity to present to the readers of one of the most important linguistics journals in Northern Europe some specimens of sociolinguistic research. When we were approached by the general editors, we wholeheartedly agreed that this would be a good idea, although – or rather, precisely for this reason – sociolinguists in general have not been keen on publishing in NJL in the past. We have a modest hope that the present issue will change this.

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Copyright © Nordic Association of Linguistics 2009

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