Language Planning As Nation Building : Ideology, Policy and Implementation in the Netherlands, 1750-1850.

Rutten, Gijsbert.

Language Planning As Nation Building : Ideology, Policy and Implementation in the Netherlands, 1750-1850. - 1 online resource (324 pages) - Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics Ser. ; v.9 . - Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics Ser. .

From the 1750s onwards, the discourse of one language-one nation was transformed into top-down policies to disseminate the newly devised standard language across the newly established Dutch nation-state. The Dutch case offers an exciting perspective on the rise of cultural nationalism, national language planning and standard language ideology.

9789027262769


Electronic books.

PF74.7

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