TY - BOOK ID - 67187337 TI - Language planning as a sociolinguistic experiment : the case of modern Norwegian PY - 2014 SN - 9780748637829 9780748678341 0748678344 0748637826 147440085X PB - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Language planning KW - Sociolinguistics. KW - Language and languages KW - Language and society KW - Society and language KW - Sociology of language KW - Language and culture KW - Linguistics KW - Sociology KW - Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) KW - Planned language change KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Social aspects KW - Sociological aspects KW - Planning UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:67187337 AB - 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 developed their own independent Scandinavian language, differentiating it from Danish and Swedish, through language planning. The almost two centuries of Norwegian language planning and conflict encompassed an extraordinary sociolinguistic experiment which led to decades of intense linguistic struggle and which has had no parallel anywhere else in the world. This fascinating book-length case study provides students and scholars in sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, language planning and language policy with a richly detailed insight into the uniqueness of the Norwegian language development. ER -