Dialect, language, nation: 50 years on

• Published in: Language policy Vol. 19; no. 2; pp. 161 - 182
• Main Authors: Joseph, John E., Rutten, Gijsbert, Vosters, Rik
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.05.2020; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Applied Linguistics; Comparative Analysis; Diachronic Linguistics; Dialect Studies; Dialects; Guidelines; Haugen, Einar; History of linguistics; Ideology; Intellectual Development; Language; Language Attitudes; Language change; Language contact; Language Education; Language Planning; Language shift; Language standardization; Language Variation; Language varieties; Linguistic Theory; Linguistics; Monolingualism; Norwegian; Norwegian language; Oral Language; Political Science; Professional Recognition; Review Paper; Role Playing; Social Problems; Social Sciences; Sociolinguistics; Speech; Standard dialects; Standard Spoken Usage; Standardization; Einar Haugen; Historical sociolinguistics; Standardization

Over 50 years ago, the Norwegian-American linguist Einar Haugen published a seminal paper entitled ‘Dialect, language and nation’ (Am Anthropol 68:922–935, 1966b), in which he expounds his four-step model of standardization, explaining the development from dialect to standard following a process of...