Language Planning as Nation Building: Ideology, policy and implementation in the Netherlands, 1750–1850

G. Rutten

Corpus ID: 226935686

Language Planning as Nation Building: Ideology, policy and implementation in the Netherlands, 1750–1850

@inproceedings{Rutten2019LanguagePA,
  title={Language Planning as Nation Building: Ideology, policy and implementation in the Netherlands, 1750–1850},
  author={G. Rutten},
  year={2019}
}

G. Rutten

Published 2019

Political Science

The decades around 1800 constitute the seminal period of European nationalism. The linguistic corollary of this was the rise of standard language ideology, from Finland to Spain, and from Iceland to the Habsburg Empire. Amidst these international events, the case of Dutch in the Netherlands offers a unique example. After the rise of the ideology from the 1750s onwards, the new discourse of one language–one nation was swiftly transformed into concrete top-down policies aimed at the dissemination… CONTINUE READING