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1 online resource (xii, 218 pages) : illustrations, map |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Contents |
Title page; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Preface; CHAPTER 1 Land and people, language and language planning; PART I THE NATIONALIST PERIOD, 1814-1917; CHAPTER 2 Before the start of language planning: 1814-45; CHAPTER 3 A language based on upper-middle-class speech or peasant dialects? The programmes proposed by Knud Knudsen and Ivar Aasen; CHAPTER 4 The language question becomes a major political issue: 1860-1907; CHAPTER 5 Two Norwegian written standards: is linguistic reconciliation possible? Early twentieth century up to the 1917 language reforms |
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PART II THE SOCIOPOLITICAL PERIOD, 1917-66CHAPTER 6 The emergence of a socialist theory of language planning: a sociolinguistic experiment; CHAPTER 7 The post-war language struggle (1945-66) to counter the sociolinguistic experiment of 1938; PART III FROM A SINGLE-STANDARD TO A TWO-STANDARD STRATEGY; CHAPTER 8 The end of the single-standard policy (1966-2002): reforms in 1981 and 2005 (for Bokmål) and 2012 (for Nynorsk); CHAPTER 9 Summary and concluding remarks; References; List of terms of language varieties; Timeline for the different written varieties of Norwegian |
| Summary |
2014 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of the Norwegian nation following centuries of Danish rule. This book analyses how Norwegians defined, fought over, and developed their own independent Scandinavian language, differentiating it from Danish and Swedish, through language planning. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Language planning -- Norway.
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Language planning. |
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Norway. |
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Sociolinguistics.
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Sociolinguistics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jahr, Ernst Håkon, 1948- author. Language planning as a sociolinguistic experiment 9780748637829 (OCoLC)870425171 |
| ISBN |
9780748678341 (electronic book) |
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0748678344 (electronic book) |
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9780748637829 |
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0748637826 |
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