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Language Planning as Nation Building : Ideology, policy and implementation in the Netherlands, 1750–1850 / Gijsbert Rutten.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rutten, Gijsbert, Author.
- Series:
- Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics ; 9
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dutch language--Standardization--History.
- Dutch language.
- Standard language--Netherlands--History.
- Standard language.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (312 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In 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:
- Prelim pages
- Table of contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Part I. Setting the stage
- Chapter 2. Language and nation in Late Modern times
- Chapter 3. Sociolinguistic space
- Chapter 4. Metalinguistic space
- Part II. Myth building
- Chapter 5. The Golden Age Myth
- Chapter 6. The Myth of Neutrality
- Part III. Discipline formation
- Chapter 7. Nationalising the lexicon
- Chapter 8. Standard language linguistics
- Chapter 9. The folklorisation of non-standard language
- Part IV. Perspectives from below
- Chapter 10. Policy and its implementation in education
- Chapter 11. The effects of planning on usage
- Chapter 12. Standard language ideology in the Netherlands
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jan 2025)
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