English loanwords in newspapers of Norwegian immigrants in the US

Abstrakt

The aim of the paper is to study English loanwords that were adopted into the written language of Norwegian immigrants who settled in the Northern America during the 19th and 20th century. The loanwords emerged as a consequence of the language contact between English and Norwegian in the US.

English as the dominant language in the area played an important role in the changes and development of the immigrants' language in the US. The research is based on the analysis of three leading Norwegian written newspapers published in the Midwest (Skandinaven, Decorah-Posten, and Minneapolis Tidende, known as The Big Three).

Klíčová slova

• Loanwords
• immigrant press
• Norwegian immigrants
• The Big Three