Language Planning as Nation Building

Ideology, policy and implementation in the Netherlands, 1750–1850

Gijsbert Rutten | Leiden University Centre for Linguistics

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The decades around 1800 constitute the seminal period of European nationalism. The linguistic corollary of this was the rise of standard language ideology, from Finland to Spain, and from Iceland to the Habsburg Empire. Amidst these international events, the case of Dutch in the Netherlands offers a unique example. After the rise of the ideology from the 1750s onwards, the new discourse of one language–one nation was swiftly transformed into concrete top-down policies aimed at the dissemination of the newly devised standard language across the entire population of the newly established Dutch nation-state. Thus, the Dutch case offers an exciting perspective on the concomitant rise of cultural nationalism, national language planning and standard language ideology.
This study offers a comprehensive yet detailed analysis of these phenomena by focussing on the ideology underpinning the new language policy, the institutionalisation of this ideology in metalinguistic discourse, the implementation of the policy in education, and the effects of the policy on actual language use.

[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics, 9] 2019. x, 312 pp.

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Published online on 28 January 2019

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https://doi.org/10.1075/ahs.9

Table of Contents

Preface | pp. ix–x

Chapter 1. Introduction | pp. 1–10

Part I. Setting the stage

Chapter 2. Language and nation in Late Modern times | pp. 13–32

Chapter 3. Sociolinguistic space | pp. 33–50

Chapter 4. Metalinguistic space | pp. 51–72

Part II. Myth building

Chapter 5. The Golden Age Myth | pp. 75–102

Chapter 6. The Myth of Neutrality | pp. 103–128

Part III. Discipline formation

Chapter 7. Nationalising the lexicon | pp. 131–164

Chapter 8. Standard language linguistics | pp. 165–190

Chapter 9. The folklorisation of non-standard language | pp. 191–214

Part IV. Perspectives from below

Chapter 10. Policy and its implementation in education: With Bob Schoemaker | pp. 217–242

Chapter 11. The effects of planning on usage: With Andreas Krogull | pp. 243–268

Chapter 12. Standard language ideology in the Netherlands: Themes and research directions | pp. 269–278

References

Index | pp. 307–312

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