LINGUIST List 26.4001

Thu Sep 10 2015

Books: Language Planning as a Sociolinguistic Experiment: Jahr

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Date: 08-Sep-2015
From: Anna Glazier <Anna.Glaziereup.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Language Planning as a Sociolinguistic Experiment: Jahr
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Title: Language Planning as a Sociolinguistic Experiment
Subtitle: The Case of Modern Norwegian
Published: 2014
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
                http://www.euppublishing.com

Book URL: http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748637829

Author: Ernst Hakon Jahr
Hardback: ISBN: 9780748637829 Pages: 224 Price: U.K. £ 70
Abstract:

A study of language planning using Norwegian as a case study

2014 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of the Norwegian nation following centuries of Danish rule. This book gives a comprehensive account of that entire 200-year period, and analyses how Norwegians defined, fought over, and developed their own independent Scandinavian language, differentiating it from Danish and Swedish, through language planning. The almost two centuries of Norwegian language planning and conflict encompassed an extraordinary sociolinguistic experiment which led to decades of intense linguistic struggle and which has had no parallel anywhere else in the world.

This fascinating book-length case study provides students and scholars in sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, language planning and language policy with a richly detailed insight into the uniqueness of the Norwegian language development.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                            Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Danish (dan)
                            Norwegian Bokmål (nob)
                            Swedish (swe)

Written In: English (eng)

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