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Joseph, John E.; Rutten, Gijsbert; Vosters, Rik – Language Policy, 2020
Over 50 years ago, the Norwegian-American linguist Einar Haugen published a seminal paper entitled 'Dialect, language and nation' (Am Anthropol 68:922-935, 1966b), in which he expounds his four-step model of standardization, explaining the development from dialect to standard following a process of norm selection, codification, acceptance and…
Descriptors: Dialects, Standard Spoken Usage, Linguistic Theory, Standards
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Rutten, Gijsbert; Krogull, Andreas; Schoemaker, Bob – Language Policy, 2020
The paper discusses "implementation" and "acceptance" as crucial elements of a historical-sociolinguistic reappraisal of Haugen's well-known theory of standardization. The case study that we focus on is the Dutch language in the second half of the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth century. In this period, Dutch…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Language Planning, Foreign Countries, Sociolinguistics