Kristiansen/Coupland (Eds.): Standard languages
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SLICE is interested in ideologies of language as much as in the forms and functions of languages themselves, and in exploring how ideology can be made visible by different research methods. This implies a commitment to researching the attitudes and value-structures that underpin attributions of ‘standard’, potential subjective complexities and shifts in these subjectivities.
One of SLICE’s key objectives is to make informed assessments of the extent and nature of linguistic destandardisation in contemporary European contexts. While sociolinguistic attention has so far been given to standardising processes – the mechanisms by which language varieties ‘rise’ to function ideologically and practically as standard varieties – it is also necessary to move beyond linear accounts and to explore whether and how varieties that have functioned as standards may be losing their legitimacy. Is there evidence that ways of speaking that have been positioned as ‘non-standard’ or vernacular varieties are ‘moving up’ to function in domains previously associated with standard varieties? More radically, is there evidence that the ideological systems that have supported attributions of standard and vernacular language may be crumbling, losing their potency or being restructured? Is it appropriate to see late modernity as an era when linguistic standardisation is in some ways and in some places being reversed, or at least rendered more complex and multi-dimensional?
Contents
Introduction
Nikolas Coupland and Tore Kristiansen
SLICE: Critical perspectives on language (de)standardisation 11
Part 1 Community reports (alphabetically ordered by name of community/ language)
Barbara Soukup and Sylvia Moosmüller
Standard language in Austria 39
Frans Gregersen
Language and ideology in Denmark 47
Peter Garrett, Charlotte Selleck and Nikolas Coupland
English in England and Wales: Multiple ideologies 57
Pirkko Nuolijärvi and Johanna Vaattovaara
De-standardisation in progress in Finnish society? 67
Jan-Ola Östman and Leila Mattfolk
Ideologies of standardisation: Finland Swedish and Swedish-language Finland 75
Philipp Stoeckle and Christoph Hare Svenstrup
Language variation and (de-)standardisation processes in Germany 83
Stephen Pax Leonard and Kristján Árnason
Language ideology and standardisation in Iceland 91
Tadhg Ó hIfearnáin and Noel Ó Murchadha
The perception of Standard Irish as a prestige target variety 97
Loreta Vaicekauskiene
Language ‘nationalisation‘: One hundred years of Standard Lithuanian 105
Stefan Grondelaers and Roeland van Hout
The standard language situation in The Netherlands 113
Helge Sandøy
Language culture in Norway: A tradition of questioning standard language norms 119
Mats Thelander
Standardisation and standard language in Sweden 127
Elen Robert
Standardness and the Welsh language 135
Part 2 Theoretical contributions (alphabetically ordered by name of author)
Jannis Androutsopoulos
Language change and digital media: A review of conceptions and evidence 145
Peter Auer and Helmut Spiekermann
Demotisation of the standard variety or destandardisation? The changing status of German in late modernity (with special reference to south-western Germany) 161
Allan Bell
Leaving Home: De-europeanisation in a post-colonial variety of
broadcast news language 177
Stefan Grondelaers, Roeland van Hout and Dirk Speelman
A perceptual typology of standard language situations in the Low Countries 199
Jane Stuart-Smith
The view from the couch: Changing perspectives on the role of television in
changing language ideologies and use 223
ISBN 978-82-7099-659-9, 239 pp., hardcover
Format: 17x24 cm, weight 0,7 kg, year of publication 2011, language: English