Standardization

Studies from the Germanic languages

Editors

Andrew R. Linn

| University of Sheffield

Nicola McLelland

| Trinity College, Dublin

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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

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.235

Table of Contents

Introduction Nicola McLelland and Andrew R. Linn	vii
I. DIFFUSING AND SHAPING THE STANDARD
Standardization and social networks: The emergence and diffusion of standard Afrikaans Ana Deumert	1–25
Dutch orthography in lower, middle and upper class documents in 19th-century Flanders Wim Vandenbussche	27–42
Standard German in the 19th century?: (Counter-) evidence from the private correspondence of ‘ordinary people’ Stephan Elspass	43–65
On the importance of foreign language grammars for a history of standard German Nils Langer	67–82
Norms and standards in 16th-century Swedish orthography Alexander Y. Zheltukhin	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 period Luc De Grauwe	99–115
Two hundred years of language planning in Belgium Jetje de Groof	117–134
Political inflections: Grammar and the Icelandic surname debate Kendra Willson	135–152
Standardization, language change, resistance and the question of linguistic threat: 18th-century English and present-day German Peter Hohenhaus	153–178
III. NON-STANDARDIZATION, DE-STANDARDIZATION AND RE-STANDARDIZATION
The standardization of Luxembourgish Gerald Newton	179–190
Language planning in Norway: A bold experiment with unexpected results Arthur O. Sandved	191–203
‘Democratic’ and ‘elitist’ trends and a Frisian standard Anthonia Feitsma	205–218
Yiddish: No state, no status — no standard? Ane Kleine	219–228
Standardization processes and the mid-Atlantic English paradigm Marko Modiano	229–252
Index	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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Subjects

Linguistics

Germanic linguistics

Historical linguistics

Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2002038438 | Marc record