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From Haugen's Codification to Thomas's Purism: Assessing the Role of Description and Prescription, Prescriptivism and Purism in Linguistic Standardisation
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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
Alternative Sources of Data for Alternative Histories of Standardisation
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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
A Language Academy by Any Other Name(s): The Case of Croatia
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Langston, Keith; Peti-Stantic, Anita – Language Policy, 2011
There are three main institutions in Croatia today that are actively engaged in language management activities on the national level: The Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, The Council for the Norms of the Croatian Standard Language, and the Institute for the Croatian Language and Linguistics. Their efforts are focused on establishing the…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Language Variation, Foreign Countries, Organizations (Groups)