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Publication details [#64693]
Savski, Kristof. 2018. Monolingualism and prescriptivism: the ecology of Slovene in the twentieth century. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 39 (2) : 124–136.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Journal WWW
Annotation
This study explores the ecology of Slovene in the twentieth century by centering on two crucial emergent themes. It centers firstly on monolingualism as a vital aim for Slovene language planners, starting with their attempts to produce a standard language with no German impact in the nineteenth century, and pursuing in their work to preclude Serbo-Croat impact in Yugoslavia in the twentieth century. The second focus is on how the gradual evolution of a language ecology ruled by prescriptive practices and a strongly nationalist language ideology permitted the elite to uphold its domination over the allotment of linguistic capital.