Language Planning As Nation Building : : Ideology, Policy and Implementation in the Netherlands, 1750-1850.

• Superior document: Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics Series ; v.9
• Author: Rutten, Gijsbert.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : : John Benjamins Publishing Company,, 2019.; ©2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (324 pages)

From the 1750s onwards, the discourse of one language-one nation was transformed into top-down policies to disseminate the newly devised standard language across the newly established Dutch nation-state. The Dutch case offers an exciting perspective on the rise of cultural nationalism, national lang...

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Language Planning as Nation Building
• Editorial page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Table of contents
• Preface
• Chapter 1. Introduction
• 1.1 Language, nation, nationalism
• 1.2 The schrijftaalregeling
• 1.3 Overview of the book
• Part I. Setting the stage
• Chapter 2. Language and nation in Late Modern times
• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 Political changes
• 2.3 Language and nation
• 2.4 Education
• 2.5 Policy
• 2.6 Final remarks
• Chapter 3. Sociolinguistic space
• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 Diglossia and diaglossia
• 3.3 English and German diaglossia
• 3.4 Dutch diaglossia
• 3.5 Supralocalisation
• 3.6 Codifications and audiences
• 3.7 Final remarks: From diaglossia to diglossia
• Chapter 4. Metalinguistic space
• 4.1 Introduction
• 4.2 The three stages of normative grammar
• 4.3 From elitist to 'civil' grammar
• 4.4 From 'civil' to national grammar
• 4.5 Nominal inflection as a test case
• 4.6 Final remarks
• Part II. Myth building
• Chapter 5. The Golden Age Myth
• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 Language myths and the history of Dutch
• 5.3 The Golden Age Myth
• 5.3.1 Looking back on the Golden Age
• 5.3.2 Nationalising the Golden Age
• Official support for the Golden Age Myth
• The Golden Age and language change
• 5.3.3 The Golden Age continues
• 5.4 Final remarks
• Chapter 6. The Myth of Neutrality
• 6.1 Introduction
• 6.2 Neutrality in Dutch
• 6.3 Two types of neutrality
• 6.4 Neutrality as a shared space
• 6.4.1 From regionality to neutrality as patchwork
• 6.4.2 The mother tongue and hierarchisation
• 6.4.3 Developing neutrality through erasure
• 6.4.4 Polishing the mother tongue
• 6.4.5 Reconceptualising the mother tongue
• 6.5 Neutrality as unmarkedness
• 6.5.1 Educational discourse and policy
• 6.5.2 Enlightenment, emancipation, anonymity - and authenticity
• 6.6 Final remarks.
• Part III. Discipline formation
• Chapter 7. Nationalising the lexicon
• 7.1 Introduction
• 7.2 The first plans (1760s-1770s)
• 7.2.1 Van Iperen's proposal
• 7.2.2 Van den Berg's letter
• 7.2.3 The well-reasoned plan
• 7.2.4 The concise plan
• 7.3 The first problems (1770s-1790s)
• 7.3.1 The linguistic questions
• 7.3.2 A new plan
• 7.4 The first publication (1799)
• 7.5 New plans (1800s-1840s)
• 7.6 The final plan (1849-1852)
• 7.6.1 Congress 1849
• 7.6.2 Congress 1850
• 7.6.3 Congress 1851
• 7.6.4 Volume I of the WNT (1882)
• 7.7 Final remarks
• Chapter 8. Standard language linguistics
• 8.1 Introduction
• 8.2 Dutch studies in periodicals
• 8.2.1 The study of Dutch vis-à-vis other cultural fields
• 8.2.2 The national language
• 8.2.3 Linguistics
• 8.2.4 The historical model of linguistic and cultural change
• 8.2.5 Conclusions
• 8.3 Matthijs Siegenbeek and the Dutch language
• 8.3.1 Siegenbeek's linguistic heritage
• 8.3.2 The Myth of the Golden Age
• 8.3.3 Dutch in contact with French and German
• 8.3.4 The language of the nation
• 8.3.5 Conclusions
• 8.4 Final remarks
• Chapter 9. The folklorisation of non-standard language
• 9.1 Introduction
• 9.2 Variation, folklorisation and two types of authenticity
• 9.3 Representing regional variation in the eighteenth century
• 9.3.1 Erasing variation
• 9.3.2 Embracing variation
• 9.3.3 Enregistering variation
• 9.4 The emergence of the study of regional varieties
• 9.5 Final remarks
• Part IV. Perspectives from below
• Chapter 10. Policy and its implementation in education: With Bob Schoemaker
• 10.1 Introduction
• 10.2 Educational policy: Major changes
• 10.2.1 Education in the eighteenth century
• 10.2.2 A discourse of change
• 10.2.3 Changes in educational policy
• 10.3 Language norms and language use in the national school system.
• 10.3.1 The school inspection system
• 10.3.2 Transmission of language norms
• 10.3.3 Language use in the classroom
• 10.4 Language norms in teaching materials
• 10.5 Final remarks
• Chapter 11. The effects of planning on usage: With Andreas Krogull
• 11.1 Introduction
• 11.2 The Going Dutch Corpus
• 11.3 Orthography
• 11.3.1 Vowels
• 11.3.2 Consonants
• 11.4 Morphosyntax
• 11.4.1 The genitive
• 11.4.2 Relativisation
• 11.5 Final remarks
• Chapter 12. Standard language ideology in the Netherlands: Themes and research directions
• Splitting the continuum
• Authority and authenticity
• Agency
• Implementation
• References
• Index.