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Rutten, Gijsbert. 2016. Historicizing diaglossia. Journal of Sociolinguistics 20 (1) : 6–30.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dialectology | diglossia | historical explanation | sociolinguistics | standard1 vs. dialect2

Language as a subject

Dutch, post-Medieval

Place, Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/josl

Annotation

Using a series of post-Medieval English, German and Dutch case studies, it is claimed that the Early and Late Modern period's sociolinguistic situation is one of diaglossia, marked by an omnipresence of intermediate dialect-standard variants, and not one of diglossia, as formerly assumed.