Language Planning as a Sociolinguistic Experiment : : The Case of Modern Norwegian / / Ernst Håkon Jahr.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Jahr, Ernst Håkon,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 10 B/W illustrations

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748637829','ISBN:9780748678341']);A study of language planning using Norwegian as a case study2014 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of the Norwegian nation following centuries of Danish rule. This book gives a comprehensive account...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of figures
• Preface
• Map of Norway
• 1. Land and people, language and language planning 1 Introduction
• PART I: THE NATIONALIST PERIOD, 1814-1917
• 2. Before the start of language planning: 1814-45
• 3. A language based on upper-middle-class speech or peasant dialects? The programmes proposed by Knud Knudsen and Ivar Aasen
• 4. The language question becomes a major political issue: 1860-1907
• 5. Two Norwegian written standards: is linguistic reconciliation possible? Early twentieth century up to the 1917 language reforms
• PART II: THE SOCIOPOLITICAL PERIOD, 1917-66
• 6. The emergence of a socialist theory of language planning: a sociolinguistic experiment
• 7. The post-war language struggle (1945-66) to counter the sociolinguistic experiment of 1938
• PART III: FROM A SINGLE-STANDARD TO A TWOSTANDARD STRATEGY
• 8. The end of the single-standard policy (1966-2002): reforms in 1981 and 2005 (for Bokmål) and 2012 (for Nynorsk)
• 9. Summary and concluding remarks
• References
• List of terms of language varieties
• Timeline for the different written varieties of Norwegian
• Timeline of important events for language planning and conflict in modern Norway
• Index