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Ayres-Bennett, Wendy – Language Policy, 2020
Haugen's model (in "Sociolinguistics," Penguin, Harmondsworth, pp 97-111, 1972 [1966]) of standardisation has been widely adopted in general histories of particular languages, not least because of its clarity and simplicity. In this article, I focus on its treatment of codification, with a view to suggesting refinements to this part of…
Descriptors: Models, Linguistic Theory, Sociolinguistics, Standard Spoken Usage
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Joseph, John E.; Rutten, Gijsbert; Vosters, Rik – Language Policy, 2020
Over 50 years ago, the Norwegian-American linguist Einar Haugen published a seminal paper entitled 'Dialect, language and nation' (Am Anthropol 68:922-935, 1966b), in which he expounds his four-step model of standardization, explaining the development from dialect to standard following a process of norm selection, codification, acceptance and…
Descriptors: Dialects, Standard Spoken Usage, Linguistic Theory, Standards
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Fitzsimmons-Doolan, Shannon – Language Policy, 2019
Lo Bianco (Curr Issues Lang Plan 9(2):155-178, 2008) proposed an "ensemble of [three] activities" that comprise language policy: the "textual," "discursive," and "public performance" (p. 157). When expressed in language, the current study proposes that each of Lo Bianco's three activities (text, discourse,…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language Variation, Language Usage, Social Environment
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Elspaß, Stephan – Language Policy, 2020
What almost all accounts of standardisation histories have in common is a focus on printed, formal or literary texts from writing elites. While Haugen identified the written form of a language as "a significant and probably crucial requirement for a standard language" (Haugen in Am Anthropol 68:922-935, 1966a; Haugen, in: Bright (ed)…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Standards, Language Planning, Linguistic Theory