Table of contents
I. DIFFUSING AND SHAPING THE STANDARD
Standardization and social networks: The emergence and diffusion of standard Afrikaans
Dutch orthography in lower, middle and upper class documents in 19th-century Flanders
Standard German in the 19th century? (Counter-) evidence from the private correspondence of ‘ordinary people’
On the importance of foreign language grammars for a history of standard German
Norms and standards in 16th-century Swedish orthography
II. STANDARD AND IDENTITY
Emerging mother-tongue awareness: The special case of Dutch and German in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period
Two hundred years of language planning in Belgium
Political inflections: Grammar and the Icelandic surname debate
Standardization, language change, resistance and the question of linguistic threat: 18th-century English and present-day German
III. NON-STANDARDIZATION, DE-STANDARDIZATION AND RE-STANDARDIZATION
The standardization of Luxembourgish
Language planning in Norway: A bold experiment with unexpected results
‘Democratic’ and ‘elitist’ trends and a Frisian standard
Yiddish: No state, no status — no standard?
Standardization processes and the mid-Atlantic English paradigm
Index
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