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Standardization
Studies from the Germanic languages
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.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 235] 2002. xii, 258 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 28 June 2011
Published online on 28 June 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- IntroductionNicola McLelland and Andrew R. Linn | p. vii
- I. DIFFUSING AND SHAPING THE STANDARD
- Standardization and social networks: The emergence and diffusion of standard AfrikaansAna Deumert | pp. 1–25
- Dutch orthography in lower, middle and upper class documents in 19th-century FlandersWim Vandenbussche | pp. 27–42
- Standard German in the 19th century? (Counter-) evidence from the private correspondence of ‘ordinary people’Stephan Elspass | pp. 43–65
- On the importance of foreign language grammars for a history of standard GermanNils Langer | pp. 67–82
- Norms and standards in 16th-century Swedish orthographyAlexander Y. Zheltukhin | pp. 83–98
- II. STANDARD AND IDENTITY
- Emerging mother-tongue awareness: The special case of Dutch and German in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern periodLuc De Grauwe | pp. 99–115
- Two hundred years of language planning in BelgiumJetje de Groof | pp. 117–134
- Political inflections: Grammar and the Icelandic surname debateKendra Willson | pp. 135–152
- Standardization, language change, resistance and the question of linguistic threat: 18th-century English and present-day GermanPeter Hohenhaus | pp. 153–178
- III. NON-STANDARDIZATION, DE-STANDARDIZATION AND RE-STANDARDIZATION
- The standardization of LuxembourgishGerald Newton | pp. 179–190
- Language planning in Norway: A bold experiment with unexpected resultsArthur O. Sandved | pp. 191–203
- ‘Democratic’ and ‘elitist’ trends and a Frisian standardAnthonia Feitsma | pp. 205–218
- Yiddish: No state, no status — no standard?Ane Kleine | pp. 219–228
- Standardization processes and the mid-Atlantic English paradigmMarko Modiano | pp. 229–252
- Index | pp. 253–258
“Die in dem Band zusammengetragenen Referate bieten einen Einblick in aktuelle Forschungsfelder zu nationalen Standardisierungstendenzen. Vor allem hinsichtlich der historischen Bedingungen liefert das empirisch fundierte Buch reichen Ertrag.”
Alfred Lameli, Marburg, in Beiträge zur Geschichte der Deutschen Sprache und Literatur, Band 129 (2007), Heft 2
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