Language Planning as a Sociolinguistic Experiment: The Case of Modern Norwegian

Author:   Ernst Hkon Jahr
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
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9780748637829


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   08 April 2014
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Ernst Hkon Jahr
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.407kg
ISBN:  

9780748637829


ISBN 10:   0748637826
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   08 April 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  General ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface; Land and people, language and language planning; Part I: The Nationalist Period, 1814-1917; Before the start of language planning: 1814-1845; A language based on upper-middle-class speech or peasant dialects? The programmes proposed by Knud Knudsen and Ivar Aasen; The language question becomes a major political issue: 1860-1907; Two Norwegian written standards - is linguistic reconciliation possible? Early 20th century up to the 1917 language reforms; Part II: The Sociopolitical Period, 1917-1966; The post-war language struggle (1945-1966) to counter the sociolinguistic experiment of 1938; Part III: From a Single-Standard to a Two-Standard Strategy; The end of the single-standard policy (1966-2002): reforms in 1981 and 2005 (for Bokmal) and 2012 (for Nynorsk); Summary and concluding remarks; References; List of terms for language varieties discussed in this book; Timeline for the important terms in this book and the different written varieties; Timetable of important events for language planning and conflict in modern Norway.

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The sociolinguistic situation in Norway today is testimony to the maturity of this tolerant and egalitarian nation: local dialects have very high status, and Standard Norwegian comes in two significantly different varieties. How this situation developed over the last two centuries is a fascinating story - which Ernst Hakon Jahr tells brilliantly, with enormous erudition, insight and verve.' -- Peter Trudgill, University of East Anglia


"The sociolinguistic situation in Norway today is testimony to the maturity of this tolerant and egalitarian nation: local dialects have very high status, and Standard Norwegian comes in two significantly different varieties. How this situation developed over the last two centuries is a fascinating story - which Ernst H�kon Jahr tells brilliantly, with enormous erudition, insight and verve.-- ""Peter Trudgill, University of East Anglia"" In my view, Jahr has succeeded well with his project: to describe how modern Norwegian language history is closely combined with political history, and how language planning was a political project... First and foremost Language Planning as a Sociolinguistic Experiment is a book that makes the special Norwegian language situation accessible for foreign scientists engaged with language policy and language planning. Translated from Norwegian--Ivar Berg, NTNU ""Norsk Lingvistisk tidsskrift"""


The sociolinguistic situation in Norway today is testimony to the maturity of this tolerant and egalitarian nation: local dialects have very high status, and Standard Norwegian comes in two significantly different varieties. How this situation developed over the last two centuries is a fascinating story - which Ernst Hakon Jahr tells brilliantly, with enormous erudition, insight and verve.' -- Peter Trudgill, University of East Anglia


The sociolinguistic situation in Norway today is testimony to the maturity of this tolerant and egalitarian nation: local dialects have very high status, and Standard Norwegian comes in two significantly different varieties. How this situation developed over the last two centuries is a fascinating story - which Ernst H kon Jahr tells brilliantly, with enormous erudition, insight and verve.' -- Peter Trudgill, University of East Anglia


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Ernst Hakon Jahr is Professor of Scandinavian Linguistics Department of Nordic and Media Studies and Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Education, at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway.

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