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Rutten, Gijsbert; Krogull, Andreas; Schoemaker, Bob – Language Policy, 2020
The paper discusses "implementation" and "acceptance" as crucial elements of a historical-sociolinguistic reappraisal of Haugen's well-known theory of standardization. The case study that we focus on is the Dutch language in the second half of the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth century. In this period, Dutch…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Language Planning, Foreign Countries, Sociolinguistics
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Spotti, Massimiliano; Kroon, Sjaak; Li, Jinling – Language Policy, 2019
This paper explores the intersection of new speakers in conditions of globalisation led mobility and it investigates the implications the phenomena may have for language policy making. It first describes two historical phases in language policy development that are closely related to a sociolinguistics of stability. In this, it criticises how…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Planning, Mandarin Chinese, Indo European Languages