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Publication Date: 2020-May
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Language Planning and Its Discontents: Lines of Flight in Haugen's View of the Politics of Standardization
Language Policy, v19 n2 p301-317 May 2020
In this article, I claim that, while placing his theory of language, language planning, and standardization within a conceptual and historical framework inspired by Modernity, the emergence of the nation-state and liberal democracy, Haugen carefully mapped sociolinguistic phenomena onto their political treatment. And it was this careful and honest cartography--unafraid of generating internal tensions--that revealed aspects of language planning practice and scholarship in need of a critical treatment. Ultimately, Haugen embraced an understanding of linguistics that revolves around normativity and accepts language's fundamentally political nature.
Descriptors: Language Planning, Political Influences, Linguistic Theory, Standard Spoken Usage, Standards, Diachronic Linguistics, Democracy, Sociolinguistics, Language Attitudes, Dialects
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