| Title:
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STANDARDIZATION
STUDIES FROM THE GERMANIC LANGUAGES |
| By: |
Andrew R. Linn (Editor), Nicola McLelland (Editor), Nicola McLellend (Editor) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£92.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
9027247471 |
| ISBN 13: |
9789027247476 |
| Publisher: |
JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING CO |
| Series: |
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory No. 235 |
| Pages: |
270 |
| Description: |
Topics covered in this volume include: the emergence and diffusion of standard Afrikaans; standard German in the 19th century; 200 years of language planning in Belgium; and the standardization of Luxembourgish. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
index |
| Publication: |
Netherlands |
| Imprint: |
John Benjamins Publishing Co |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |