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.