摘要：This study takes a comparative perspective and looks into a set of phrases that originate in English but have come to be used in all the three Scandinavian languages Danish, Swedish and Norwegian. These selected cases of phraseological borrowing all serve salient pragmatic functions in contemporary Scandinavian discourse, notably the exclamatory as if! (Brinton 2014, Andersen 2015), the pragmatic marker oh wait! (Balteiro 2018) and the ever construction, as in beste dataspillet ever! ‘best computer game ever’ (Zenner et al., 2018). It is argued that social media data and other forms of computer-mediated communication provide a good context for the study of these phrases, as seen from observations in the Danish, Norwegian and Swedish versions of the TenTen corpora (Jakubíček et al., 2013). The similarity in structure and content of these corpora allows for the study of similarities and dissimilarities in the adaptation of the anglicisms studied. The corpus method involves searching for the phrases in question, inspecting concordance lines, sifting the results by setting aside use in quotations of longer stretches of code-switching and analysing pragmatic function in context. The study concludes that there is considerable overlap in terms of pragmatic functions and structural adaptation of the three borrowed phrases across the three Scandinavian languages.
