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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.
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
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