Table of Contents

1. Introduction (by McLelland, Nicola); 2. I. DIFFUSING AND SHAPING THE STANDARD; 3. Standardization and social networks: The emergence and diffusion of standard Afrikaans (by Deumert, Ana); 4. Dutch orthography in lower, middle and upper class documents in 19th-century Flanders (by Vandenbussche, Wim); 5. Standard German in the 19th century?: (Counter-) evidence from the private correspondence of 'ordinary people' (by Elspass, Stephan); 6. On the importance of foreign language grammars for a history of standard German (by Langer, Nils); 7. Norms and standards in 16th-century Swedish orthography (by Zheltukhin, Alexander Y.); 8. II. STANDARD AND IDENTITY; 9. Emerging mother-tongue awareness: The special case of Dutch and German in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period (by Grauwe, Luc De); 10. Two hundred years of language planning in Belgium (by de Groof, Jetje); 11. Political inflections: Grammar and the Icelandic surname debate (by Willson, Kendra); 12. Standardization, language change, resistance and the question of linguistic threat: 18th-century English and present-day German (by Hohenhaus, Peter); 13. III. NON-STANDARDIZATION, DE-STANDARDIZATION AND RE-STANDARDIZATION; 14. The standardization of Luxembourgish (by Newton, Gerald); 15. Language planning in Norway: A bold experiment with unexpected results (by Sandved, Arthur O.); 16. 'Democratic' and 'elitist' trends and a Frisian standard (by Feitsma, Anthonia); 17. Yiddish: No state, no status - no standard? (by Kleine, Ane); 18. Standardization processes and the mid-Atlantic English paradigm (by Modiano, Marko); 19. Index

Introduction, Nicola McLelland and Andrew Linn. Part 1 Diffusing and shaping the standard: standardization and social networks - the emergence and diffusion in 19th-century Afrikaans, Ana Deumert; Dutch orthography in lower, middle and upper class documents in 19th-century Flanders, Wim Vandenbussche; standard German in the 19th century? (counter-)evidence from the private correspondence of "ordinary people", Stefan Elspass; on the importance of foreign language grammars for a history of standard German, Nils Langer; norms and standards in 16th-century Swedish orthography, Alexander Y. Zheltukhin. Part 2 Standard and identity: emerging mother-tongue awareness - the special case of Dutch and German in the Middle Ages and the early Modern period, Luc de Grauwe; two hundred years of language planning in Belgium, Jetje De Groof; political inflections -grammar and the Icelandic surname debate, Kendra Willson; standardization, language change, resistance and the question of linguistic threat - 18th-century English and present-day German, Peter Hohenhaus. Part 3 Non-standardization, de-standardization and re-standardization: the standardization of Luxembourgish, Gerald Newton; language planning in Norway - a bold experiment with unexpected results, Arthur O. Sandved; "democratic" and "elitist" trends and a Frisian standard, Anthonia Feitsma; Yiddish - no state, no status - no standard?, Ane Kleine; standardization processes in the mid-Atlantic English paradigm, Marko Modiano.

Reviews

Die in dem Band zusammengetragenen Referate bieten einen Einblick in aktuelle Forschungsfelder zu nationalen Standardisierungstendenzen. Vor allem hinsichtlich der historischen Bedingungen liefert das empirisch fundierte Buch reichen Ertrag.
*Alfred Lameli, Marburg, in Beiträge zur Geschichte der Deutschen Sprache und Literatur, Band 129 (2007), Heft 2*