Abstract
The Nordic Journal of English Studies was created in 2002 in order to offer a forum for Nordic scholars in English language and literature and to promote the field of English studies in the Nordic countries. It is affiliated to the Nordic Association of English Studies (NAES). Starting from 2007 the journal is open access and only published electronically.
Highlights
No finst det i og for seg ikkje reine språk
Jamvel isländsk, har ulike former for språklån og språkblandingar. (Brunstad 2003: 7)
A pilot study of three small text samples, one of which consisted of domestic news in a national newspaper, shows that words originating in English were only 0.3% of the total number of running words in such texts, and less than 2 % of the total number of lemmas or lexemes, proper names included
Summary
These are the opening words of a new collection of papers on language purism, and the "jamvel" (even) reflects the widespread view that Icelandic is an exceptionally , "pure" language, in the sense that its vocabulary is more or less free from foreign influence, at least in the form of direct lexical borrowing. This is the image that many Icelanders have of their language, and the image they present to others. Similar results are emerging in an ongoing comparative research project on lexical borrowing in the Nordic languages (including Finnish),' and, they indicate that Icelandic has proportionally the fewest borrowings of all the languages in question
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