Meaning of Copenhagenization | Babel Free

Definitions

The adaptation to the norms of Copenhagen in Denmark.

rare, uncountable

Examples

“In addition they [American policy makers] viewed socialists as insufficiently hard-nosed in dealing with world problems. The specter was thus less that of "Finlandization" than of "Copenhagenization."”

“The far‐reaching linguistic “Copenhagenization” of the country has its correlate in an even more ubiquitous subjective Copenhagenization: everywhere, young people not only downgrade their own local accents […] relative to young Copenhagen speech, but they also perceive and evaluate the variation in this speech […] in exactly the same way as young Copenhageners do themselves.”

CEFR level