Danish language legislation and de facto language policies

• Anne Holmen ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Copenhagen

     University of Copenhagen

     Dinamarca

     
• Localización: Current issues in language planning, ISSN 1466-4208, Vol. 26, Nº. 1, 2025 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Eastern and Northern European Language Policies and Strategies: de jure and de facto approaches), págs. 63-73
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1080/14664208.2024.2326335
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• Resumen

  • For many years Denmark has had a reputation for being laissez-faire in language matters. There is no explicit language legislation, and the Danish Language Council has mainly descriptive functions. However, there is a powerful standard language ideology, and in other societal domains such as education or immigration, language is heavily regulated. In this paper, I shall first give the background, i.e. the situation for the Danish language and other languages in Denmark, and then zoom in on the debate about the pros and cons of a language act supplemented with specific questions related to education or immigration to grasp the de facto language policies at play.