Jan-Petter Blom

Thinkers1927 to 2021Social anthropologist

Works

  • Social Meaning in Linguistic Structure: Code-Switching in Norway, Directions in Sociolinguistics, 1972

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A Norwegian social anthropologist at the University of Bergen. His study with John J. Gumperz of how speakers in a northern Norwegian community moved between the local dialect and standard Norwegian is a founding work on code-switching.

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