30.565, Books: Policy versus practice: Krogull

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Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2019 20:31:06
From: J. van Duijn Genet [lot at uva.nl]
Subject: Policy versus practice: Krogull

 


Title: Policy versus practice 
Subtitle: Language variation and change in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Dutch 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/policy-versus-practice-language-variation-and-change-in-eighteenth-and-nineteenth-century-dutch 


Author: Andreas Krogull

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933066 Pages: 351 Price: Europe EURO 37


Abstract:

This dissertation provides new insights into language variation and change in
late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Dutch. More specifically, it
investigates whether and to what extent official language policy measures
exerted influence on actual language practice.

During the nation-building period around 1800, the Northern Netherlands
witnessed the introduction of a national language policy, which aimed at the
spread of a homogeneous written standard variety of Dutch, conceptualised as a
symbol of ‘the’ nation. In concrete terms, these top-down endeavours resulted
in the first official codification of the Dutch orthography (Siegenbeek 1804)
and grammar (Weiland 1805). Despite marking a decisive turning point in the
standardisation history of Dutch, the effectiveness of the so-called
schrijftaalregeling ‘written language regulation’ has never been investigated
empirically.

Taking a historical-sociolinguistic approach, this dissertation aims to fill
this research gap by examining the impact of language policy on patterns of
variation and change. How successful was the schrijftaalregeling in
disseminating the officialised norms across the population at large, as
envisaged by the national government? Making use of the newly compiled Going
Dutch Corpus, a diachronic multi-genre corpus comprising more than 420,000
words of authentic usage data (i.e. private letters, diaries and travelogues,
newspapers), a wide range of orthographic and morphosyntactic features is
analysed.

By presenting a systematic method to measure and assess the effects of policy
on practice in the intriguing case of Dutch around 1800, the dissertation
contributes to the vivid discussion on language norms and usage in
international historical sociolinguistics.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)


Written In: English  (eng)

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