TY - BOOK ID - 77935528 TI - Standardization: studies from the Germanic languages AU - Linn, Andrew R. AU - McLelland, Nicola PY - 2002 VL - 235 SN - 1283469383 9786613469380 9027283672 9789027283672 9027247471 9789027247476 1588113663 9781588113665 9781283469388 6613469386 PB - Amsterdam Benjamins DB - UniCat KW - Germanic languages KW - Teutonic languages KW - Indo-European languages KW - Standardization KW - Langues germaniques KW - Normalisation KW - Sociolinguistics KW - LANGUES GERMANIQUES KW - ALLEMAND (LANGUE) KW - ANGLAIS (LANGUE) KW - NEERLANDAIS (LANGUE) KW - NORMALISATION KW - Anglais (langue) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77935528 AB - This volume presents fourteen case studies of standardization processes in eleven different Germanic languages. Together, the contributions confront problematic issues in standardization which will be of interest to sociolinguists, as well as to historical linguists from all language disciplines. The papers cover a historical range from the Middle Ages to the present and a geographical range from South Africa to Iceland, but all fall into one of the following categories: 1) shaping and diffusing a standard language; 2) the relationship between standard and identity; 3) non-standardization, de-standardization and re-standardization. ER -