Standardization: Studies from the Germanic languages: 235 (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027247471 ISBN 13: 9789027247476

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2002

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027247471
• ISBN 13: 9789027247476
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 270
• Editor: Linn Andrew R., McLelland Nicola