title: The dark side of Danish hygge: Neologisms hyggeracisme и hyggesexisme, their meaning and translation options
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metadata.value: Avakova, Yulia
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metadata.value: 2020-09-11T10:11:33Z
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metadata.value: 2020-09-11T10:11:33Z
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metadata.value: 2020-03
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metadata.value: Avakova Yu.The dark side of Danish hygge: Neologisms hyggeracisme и hyggesexisme, their meaning and translation options. Scandinavian Philology, 2020, vol. 18, issue 1, pp. 5–20.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2020.101
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/19416
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metadata.value: The article explores the concept of Danish hygge as an integral part of Danish language consciousness. Two peculiar concepts that have been coined relatively recently
  (namely hyggeracisme and hyggesexisme) have already managed to gain a certain popularity with the Danish media, notwithstanding the said expressions’ obvious ambiguity. On the one hand, these terms encompass a variety of shades of meaning intrinsic
  to the concept of hygge, on the other hand, they have more to do with some marginal
  interpretations of hygge, rather than with more conventional perceptions of the phenomenon. The “dark side” of Danish hygge has often been the subject of social science
  research, though one must admit, somewhat regrettably, that it has not been thoroughly
  examined in regard to translation. Being a widely accepted social phenomenon, it deserves further investigation. In order to proceed with the task at hand and to correctly
  delineate the actual meaning of these neologisms, one must embrace the semantic limitations of the hygge concept, simultaneously drawing distinctions between the positive,
  neutral and negative impacts of hygge on everyday life. Furthermore, if one takes a
  more detailed look at such basic concepts as ‘racism’ and ‘sexism’, one will see that these
  have different implications for the Danish and Russian languages due to the various
  cultural, historical, and institutional differences between the two countries, although
  the core meaning seems to remain intact. These differences, however minimal, may
  become substantial enough to negate the possibility of employing direct equivalents for translation purposes. When such notions as ‘racism’ and ‘sexism’ merge with ‘hygge-’, the compound nouns seem to undergo a drastic semantic transformation — the
  original meaning gives way to a new one, much more obscure (thus making literal
  translation inadequate). The next step includes choosing the most feasible strategies for
  translation. Due to the fact that we are dealing with a neologism that is widely used,
  though not particularly consistently, one must always take into consideration the intentions of the speaker who usually makes references to Danish social and cultural realities
  that are not always entirely known to an outside observer. The article includes the main
  views on the notion of “hygge” in all its aspects, providing contextual examples of the
  occurrence of both neologisms, along with possible translations and justifications for
  the choices made by the author.
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 18; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Danish language
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: “hygge”
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: hyggeracisme
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: hyggesexisme
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: neologism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: racism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: nationalism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: sexism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: sociolinguistics
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: translation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The dark side of Danish hygge: Neologisms hyggeracisme и hyggesexisme, their meaning and translation options
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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