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Title Germanic standardizations : past to present / edited by Ana Deumert, Wim Vandenbussche
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 479 pages)
Series Impact, studies in language and society, 1385-7908 ; v. 18
Impact, studies in language and society ; 18.
Contents Germanic Standardizations; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Contents; Standard languages; Afrikaans; Caribbean Creoles; Danish; Dutch; English; Faroese; Frisian; German; Icelandic; Low German; Luxembourgish; Norwegian; Pacific Pidgins and Creoles; Scots; Swedish; Yiddish; Research directions in the study of language standardization; Index; The series IMPACT: STUDIES IN LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY
Summary This volume presents a comparative, socio-historical study of the Germanic standard languages (Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Frisian, German, Icelandic, Low German, Luxemburgish, Norwegian, Scots, Swedish, Yiddish as well as the Caribbean and Pacific Creole languages). Each of the 16 orginal chapters systematically discusses central aspects of the standardization process, including dialect selection, codification, elaboration and diffusion of the standard norm across the speech community, as well as incipient processes of de-standardization and re-standardization. The strongly co
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Germanic languages -- Standardization
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- German.
Germanic languages -- Standardization
Form Electronic book
Author Deumert, Ana
Vandenbussche, Wim
LC no. 2003060721
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