Language planning as nation building : ideology, policy and implementation in the Netherlands, 1750-1850 /

From the 1750s onwards, the discourse of one language-one nation was transformed into top-down policies to disseminate the newly devised standard language across the newly established Dutch nation-state. The Dutch case offers an exciting perspective on the rise of cultural nationalism, national lang...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rutten, Gijsbert Johan, 1977- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]
Series:	Advances in historical sociolinguistics, issn 2214-1057 ; Volume 9
Subjects:	Dutch language > Standardization > History. Standard language > Netherlands > History. Néerlandais (Langue) > Normalisation > Histoire. Langue standard > Pays-Bas > Histoire. linguistics. Sociolinguistics. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative. Dutch language > Standardization Standard language Netherlands historical linguistics history German linguistics sociolinguistics and dialectology CF CFB Electronic books. History
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Table of Contents:

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Language and nation in late modern times
3. Sociolinguistic space
4. Metalinguistic space
5. The golden age myth
6. The myth of neutrality
7. Nationalising the lexicon
8. Standard language linguistics
9. The folklorisation of non-standard language
10. Policy and its implementation in education
11. The effects of planning on usage / with Andreas Krogull
References
Index.