Copenhagenization

Copenhagenization

English

Etymology

Copenhagen +‎ -ization

Noun

Copenhagenization (uncountable)

1. (rare) Adaptation to the norms of Copenhagen in Denmark.
   • 1979, Kenneth A. Oye, ‎Donald S. Rothchild, ‎Robert J. Lieber, Eagle Entangled: U.S. Foreign Policy in a Complex World (page 272)

     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."

   • 2018, Charles Boberg, ‎John Nerbonne, ‎Dominic Watt, The Handbook of Dialectology (page 119)

     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.