Standard Languages and Multilingualism in European History

Name: Standard Languages and Multilingualism in European History
Brand: John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Matthias Hüning Ulrike Vogl Olivier Moliner(Herausgeber*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 31. Mai 2012

IX, 339 Seiten

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Standard Languages and Multilingualism in European History
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Preface
Multilingualism in a standard language culture
1. Introduction
2. Standard language ideology
3. The emergence of a standard language ideology: Towards a chronology
4. What does standard language ideology hide?
5. Questions raised
References
I. Theoretical considerations and historical background
Myths we live and speak by: Ways of imagining and managing language and languages
1. Introduction
2. Standard language culture
3. The vernacular
4. The concept of "variety" and its implications
5. Mutual intelligibility
6. Conclusions
References
Marching forward into the past
1. Introduction: Van-Gogh's bedroom and the Wehrlian Westfalia
2. Unity, diversity and democracy: The political theorising of linguistic diversity
3. Thinking politically, thinking linguistically: Two understandings of "linguistic"
4. Making every tongue a queen: The normative reemergence of the linguistic territorial principle
5. Conclusion: Marching forward into the past
References
Language and ethnicity in a European context
1. Introduction
2. Ethnic boundary-marking as an arbiter in processes of identification
3. Trajectories of language-oriented perceptions of ethnicity in the European tradition of reasoning
4. Language in ethnicity among the peoples of Europe
5. Outlook
References
II. Case-studies
Multilingual speakers in a monolingual society
1. Introduction
2. Language planning: Processes and goals
3. The background: The early development of the Icelandic language
4. Standardization and language planning in Iceland from a historical perspective
5. Language planning in twentieth century Iceland
6. Conclusion
References
Multilingualism and standardization in Greece
1. Introduction
2. Brief overview of the past
3. Multilingualism in Greece
4. Linguistic diversity in spoken Greek
5. The intralingual Greek language controversy
6. The standardization of Greek
7. Conclusion
References
The development of Finnish into a national language
1. Introduction
2. The languages in Finland during the Swedish and the Russian eras
3. Finnish in the Kingdom of Sweden (about 1200-1809)
4. Finnish in the Grand Duchy of Finland within the Russian empire (1809-1917)
5. Independent Finland (1917-)
6. Summary
References
Traces of monolingual and plurilingual ideologies in the history of language policies in France
1. The standardization of French: A long process
2. Permeability of borders between languages
3. A pluralistic interlude in the year 1790
4. The further elaboration of the French ideology of bon usage
5. New orientations
6. Discussion
References
Centripetal and centrifugal forces in the sociolinguistic configuration of the Iberian Peninsula
1. Introduction
2. Theoretical parameters
3. Present-day linguistic relations in Spain
4. Salient determining factors
5. Further evidence of geopolitical and sociolinguistic realities
6. Summary and conclusions
References
Dutch in Belgium: Facing multilingualism in a context of regional monolingualism
1. Outline of the present-day language landscape in Flanders
2. Language planning in Flanders
3. Did the emergence of Standard Dutch in Flanders translate into more or less multilingualism
4. Concluding remarks
References
The Caucasus: Scenarios of ethnic conflict and trajectories of standardization
1. Introduction: Setting the stage for political control over the borderland
2. Ethnic diversity and multilingualism in the Caucasus
3. Language contacts and the impact of Russian
4. Literacy and processes of standardization of Caucasian languages
5. Russian political hegemony and military presence in the region
6. Whither the Caucasus region? Perspectives for European ethnic crisis management
References
Multilingualism and the disputed standardizations of Macedonian and Moldovan
1. Introduction
2. State Communism and multilingualism
3. Selection
4. Codification
5. Elaboration
6. Acceptance
7. Standardization and multilingualism
8. Conclusions
References
Name index
Language index
Index of geographical names
Subject index

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