Language planning as a sociolinguistic experiment : the case of modern Norwegian /
A study of language planning using Norwegian as a case study. 2014 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of the Norwegian nation following centuries of Danish rule. This book gives a comprehensive account of that entire 200-year period, and analyses how Norwegians defined, fought over, and develo...
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Title page; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Preface; CHAPTER 1 Land and people, language and language planning; PART I THE NATIONALIST PERIOD, 1814-1917; CHAPTER 2 Before the start of language planning: 1814-45; CHAPTER 3 A language based on upper-middle-class speech or peasant dialects? The programmes proposed by Knud Knudsen and Ivar Aasen; CHAPTER 4 The language question becomes a major political issue: 1860-1907; CHAPTER 5 Two Norwegian written standards: is linguistic reconciliation possible? Early twentieth century up to the 1917 language reforms.
- PART II THE SOCIOPOLITICAL PERIOD, 1917-66CHAPTER 6 The emergence of a socialist theory of language planning: a sociolinguistic experiment; CHAPTER 7 The post-war language struggle (1945-66) to counter the sociolinguistic experiment of 1938; PART III FROM A SINGLE-STANDARD TO A TWO-STANDARD STRATEGY; CHAPTER 8 The end of the single-standard policy (1966-2002): reforms in 1981 and 2005 (for Bokmål) and 2012 (for Nynorsk); CHAPTER 9 Summary and concluding remarks; References; List of terms of language varieties; Timeline for the different written varieties of Norwegian.
