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benjamins.com>Title: Standardization Subtitle: Studies from the Germanic languages Series Title: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 235 Publication Year: 2002 Publisher: John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/, http://www.benjamins.nl Book URL: http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=CILT_235 Editor: Andrew R. Linn, University of Sheffield Editor: Nicola McLelland, Trinity College, Dublin Hardback: ISBN: 1588113663, Pages: xii, 258 pp., Price: USD 89.00 Hardback: ISBN: 9027247471, Pages: xii, 258 pp., Price: EUR 89.00 Abstract: 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. 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 Dutch orthography in lower, middle and upper class documents in 19th-century Flanders Wim Vandenbussche 27 Standard German in the 19th century? (Counter-) evidence from the private correspondence of "ordinary people" Stefan Elspass 43 On the importance of foreign language grammars for a history of standard German Nils Langer 67 Norms and standards in 16th-century Swedish orthography Alexander Y. Zheltukhin 83 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 Two hundred years of language planning in Belgium Jetje De Groof 117 Political inflections: Grammar and the Icelandic surname debate Kendra Willson 135 Standardization, language change, resistance and the question of linguistic threat: 18th-century English and present-day German Peter Hohenhaus 153 III. NON-STANDARDIZATION, DE-STANDARDIZATION AND RE-STANDARDIZATION The standardization of Luxembourgish Gerald Newton 179 Language planning in Norway: A bold experiment with unexpected results Arthur O. Sandved 191 "Democratic" and "elitist" trends and a Frisian standard Anthonia Feitsma 205 Yiddish: No state, no status -- no standard? Ane Kleine 219 Standardization processes and the mid-Atlantic English paradigm Marko Modiano 229 Index 253 Lingfield(s): Historical Linguistics Sociolinguistics Language Family(ies): German (Language Code: GRM) Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue