title: Janteloven in Denmark and Norway — To be or not to be?
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metadata.value: Gurova, Elena
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Taratonkina, Irina
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metadata.value: Avakova, Yulia
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2024-09-23T14:17:30Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2024-09-23T14:17:30Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2024-03
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metadata.value: Gurova E., Taratonkina I., Avakova Yu. Janteloven in Denmark and Norway — To be or not to be? Scandinavian Philology, 2024, vol. 22, issue 1, pp. 23–46. https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2024.102
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2024.102
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/47569
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The paper focuses on the concept of the Jante law (janteloven), formulated by
  A. Sandemose in 1933 in his novel En flyktning krysser sitt spor. Fortelling om en morders
  barndom (A Fugitive Crosses His Tracks. A story about a murderer’s childhood), which
  later became an element of the cultural code of Denmark and Norway. In this study we
  follow C. Levisen in his distinguishing between the “literary Jante law”, described by
  A. Sandemose in his novel, and the “linguistic” Jante law, which is a collocation in the
  Danish and Norwegian languages. This lexicalization of the concept has been brought
  about by the specific Scandinavian mentality, conditioned by a number of reasons (the
  agrarian Scandinavian culture, the Lutheran ethos). In the modern Danish and Norwegian
  languages the concept of janteloven is negative and is used in specific types of discourse
  (sports, popular culture, business, politics, psychology, schooling, immigration
  problems, feminism). Besides, there are numerous reformulated Jante laws (den positive
  jantelov, den omvendte jantelov, antijantelov, jenteloven, Danskerloven), which proves
  the precedence of the notion in the Danish and Norwegian cultures. The dominating
  American individualistic culture influences the development of a new system of values
  (ambition, self-concern, pushiness are no longer viewed as negative qualities), which
  results in a conflict between the traditional and the new in the Danish and Norwegian
  cultures: the Jante law comes into conflict with the so-called achievement culture
  (præstationskulturen). As a social construct and a secret regulator of public relations the
  janteloven has found its place between the number of other concepts (hygge, trivsel and so on), yet the janteloven has been specifically reflected in political practices, both in its
  formal expression (development of various “canons”) and in the methods of countering
  the imposition of certain phenomena on the part of government authorities.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 22; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: janteloven
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Law of Jante
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Danish
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Norwegian
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Scandinavian mindset
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Janteloven in Denmark and Norway — To be or not to be?
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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