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Standardization

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Standardization 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

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ISBN: 9789027247476
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Author: Andrew R Linn, Nicola McLelland
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 270 pages
Series: Current Issues in Linguistic Theory
Genres: Linguistics

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