Standardization: Studies from the Germanic LanguagesAndrew Robert Linn, Nicola McLelland This volume presents fourteen case studies of standardization processes in eleven different Germanic languages. Together, the contributions confront problematic issues in standardization which will be of interest to sociolinguists, as well as to historical linguists from all language disciplines. The papers cover a historical range from the Middle Ages to the present and a geographical range from South Africa to Iceland, but all fall into one of the following categories: 1) shaping and diffusing a standard language; 2) the relationship between standard and identity; 3) non-standardization, de-standardization and re-standardization. |
Contents
STANDARDIZATION AND SOCIAL NETWORKS THE EMERGENCE AND DIFFUSION OF STANDARD AFRIKAANS | 1 |
DUTCH ORTHOGRAPHY IN LOWER MIDDLE ANDUPPER CLASS DOCUMENTS IN 19THCENTURY FLANDERS | 27 |
STANDARD GERMAN IN THE 19TH CENTURY?COUNTER EVIDENCE FROM THE PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE OF ORDINARY PEOPLE | 43 |
ON THE IMPORTANCE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE GRAMMARS FOR A HISTORY OF STANDARD GERMAN | 67 |
NORMS AND STANDARDSIN 16THCENTURY SWEDISH ORTHOGRAPHY | 83 |
EMERGING MOTHERTONGUE AWARENESS THE SPECIAL CASE OF DUTCH AND GERMAN IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE EARLY M... | 99 |
TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF LANGUAGE PLANNING IN BELGIUM | 117 |
POLITICAL INFLECTIONS GRAMMAR AND THE ICELANDIC SURNAME DEBATE | 135 |
STANDARDIZATION LANGUAGE CHANGE RESISTANCE AND THE QUESTION OF LINGUISTIC THREAT 18THCENTURY ENGLISH AND... | 153 |
THE STANDARDIZATION OF LUXEMBOURGISH | 179 |
LANGUAGE PLANNING IN NORWAY A BOLD EXPERIMENT WITH UNEXPECTED RESULTS | 191 |
DEMOCRATIC AND ELITIST TRENDS AND A FRISIAN STANDARD | 205 |
YIDDISH NO STATE NO STATUS NO STANDARD? | 219 |
STANDARDIZATION PROCESSES AND THE MIDATLANTIC ENGLISH PARADIGM | 229 |
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