Language Planning As Nation Building : Ideology, Policy and Implementation in the Netherlands, 1750-1850.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rutten, Gijsbert.

Series:

Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics Series

Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics (AHS)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 electronic resource (324 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Language Planning as Nation Building

Place of Publication:

John Benjamins Publishing Company 2019

Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The decades around 1800 constitute the seminal period of European nationalism. The linguistic corollary of this was the rise of standard language ideology, from Finland to Spain, and from Iceland to the Habsburg Empire. Amidst these international events, the case of Dutch in the Netherlands offers a unique example. After the rise of the ideology from the 1750s onwards, the new discourse of one language–one nation was swiftly transformed into concrete top-down policies aimed at the dissemination of the newly devised standard language across the entire population of the newly established Dutch nation-state. Thus, the Dutch case offers an exciting perspective on the concomitant rise of cultural nationalism, national language planning and standard language ideology. This study offers a comprehensive yet detailed analysis of these phenomena by focussing on the ideology underpinning the new language policy, the institutionalisation of this ideology in metalinguistic discourse, the implementation of the policy in education, and the effects of the policy on actual language use.

Contents:

Intro

Language Planning as Nation Building

Editorial page

Title page

Copyright page

Table of contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Introduction

1.1 Language, nation, nationalism

1.2 The schrijftaalregeling

1.3 Overview of the book

Part I. Setting the stage

Chapter 2. Language and nation in Late Modern times

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Political changes

2.3 Language and nation

2.4 Education

2.5 Policy

2.6 Final remarks

Chapter 3. Sociolinguistic space

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Diglossia and diaglossia

3.3 English and German diaglossia

3.4 Dutch diaglossia

3.5 Supralocalisation

3.6 Codifications and audiences

3.7 Final remarks: From diaglossia to diglossia

Chapter 4. Metalinguistic space

4.1 Introduction

4.2 The three stages of normative grammar

4.3 From elitist to 'civil' grammar

4.4 From 'civil' to national grammar

4.5 Nominal inflection as a test case

4.6 Final remarks

Part II. Myth building

Chapter 5. The Golden Age Myth

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Language myths and the history of Dutch

5.3 The Golden Age Myth

5.3.1 Looking back on the Golden Age

5.3.2 Nationalising the Golden Age

Official support for the Golden Age Myth

The Golden Age and language change

5.3.3 The Golden Age continues

5.4 Final remarks

Chapter 6. The Myth of Neutrality

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Neutrality in Dutch

6.3 Two types of neutrality

6.4 Neutrality as a shared space

6.4.1 From regionality to neutrality as patchwork

6.4.2 The mother tongue and hierarchisation

6.4.3 Developing neutrality through erasure

6.4.4 Polishing the mother tongue

6.4.5 Reconceptualising the mother tongue

6.5 Neutrality as unmarkedness

6.5.1 Educational discourse and policy

6.5.2 Enlightenment, emancipation, anonymity - and authenticity

6.6 Final remarks.

Part III. Discipline formation

Chapter 7. Nationalising the lexicon

7.1 Introduction

7.2 The first plans (1760s-1770s)

7.2.1 Van Iperen's proposal

7.2.2 Van den Berg's letter

7.2.3 The well-reasoned plan

7.2.4 The concise plan

7.3 The first problems (1770s-1790s)

7.3.1 The linguistic questions

7.3.2 A new plan

7.4 The first publication (1799)

7.5 New plans (1800s-1840s)

7.6 The final plan (1849-1852)

7.6.1 Congress 1849

7.6.2 Congress 1850

7.6.3 Congress 1851

7.6.4 Volume I of the WNT (1882)

7.7 Final remarks

Chapter 8. Standard language linguistics

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Dutch studies in periodicals

8.2.1 The study of Dutch vis-à-vis other cultural fields

8.2.2 The national language

8.2.3 Linguistics

8.2.4 The historical model of linguistic and cultural change

8.2.5 Conclusions

8.3 Matthijs Siegenbeek and the Dutch language

8.3.1 Siegenbeek's linguistic heritage

8.3.2 The Myth of the Golden Age

8.3.3 Dutch in contact with French and German

8.3.4 The language of the nation

8.3.5 Conclusions

8.4 Final remarks

Chapter 9. The folklorisation of non-standard language

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Variation, folklorisation and two types of authenticity

9.3 Representing regional variation in the eighteenth century

9.3.1 Erasing variation

9.3.2 Embracing variation

9.3.3 Enregistering variation

9.4 The emergence of the study of regional varieties

9.5 Final remarks

Part IV. Perspectives from below

Chapter 10. Policy and its implementation in education: With Bob Schoemaker

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Educational policy: Major changes

10.2.1 Education in the eighteenth century

10.2.2 A discourse of change

10.2.3 Changes in educational policy

10.3 Language norms and language use in the national school system.

10.3.1 The school inspection system

10.3.2 Transmission of language norms

10.3.3 Language use in the classroom

10.4 Language norms in teaching materials

10.5 Final remarks

Chapter 11. The effects of planning on usage: With Andreas Krogull

11.1 Introduction

11.2 The Going Dutch Corpus

11.3 Orthography

11.3.1 Vowels

11.3.2 Consonants

11.4 Morphosyntax

11.4.1 The genitive

11.4.2 Relativisation

11.5 Final remarks

Chapter 12. Standard language ideology in the Netherlands: Themes and research directions

Splitting the continuum

Authority and authenticity

Agency

Implementation

References

Index.

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OCLC:

1060187288