Standardization Studies from the Germanic Languages |
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| Editor:
| Linn, Andrew R.
McLelland, Nicola |
| Series title: | Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science |
| ISBN: | 978-90-272-4747-6 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2002 |
| Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing Company
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
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Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionThis 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.