Meanings
- rareuncountableThe adaptation to the norms of Copenhagen in Denmark.
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."
1979, Kenneth A. Oye, Donald S. Rothchild, Robert J. Lieber, Eagle Entangled: U.S. Foreign Policy in a Complex World, page 2721 more example
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.
2018, Charles Boberg, John Nerbonne, Dominic Watt, The Handbook of Dialectology, page 119
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