Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Preface
- Map of Norway
- 1 Land and people, language and language planning
- PART I THE NATIONALIST PERIOD, 1814–1917
- PART II THE SOCIOPOLITICAL PERIOD, 1917–66
- PART III FROM A SINGLE-STANDARD TO A TWO-STANDARD STRATEGY
- 8 The end of the single-standard policy (1966–2002): reforms in 1981 and 2005 (for Bokmål) and 2012 (for Nynorsk)
- 9 Summary and concluding remarks
- References
- List of terms of language varieties
- Timeline for the different written varieties of Norwegian
- Timeline of important events for language planning and conflict in modern Norway
- Index
9 - Summary and concluding remarks
from PART III - FROM A SINGLE-STANDARD TO A TWO-STANDARD STRATEGY
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Preface
- Map of Norway
- 1 Land and people, language and language planning
- PART I THE NATIONALIST PERIOD, 1814–1917
- PART II THE SOCIOPOLITICAL PERIOD, 1917–66
- PART III FROM A SINGLE-STANDARD TO A TWO-STANDARD STRATEGY
- 8 The end of the single-standard policy (1966–2002): reforms in 1981 and 2005 (for Bokmål) and 2012 (for Nynorsk)
- 9 Summary and concluding remarks
- References
- List of terms of language varieties
- Timeline for the different written varieties of Norwegian
- Timeline of important events for language planning and conflict in modern Norway
- Index
Summary
This book started out with some essential questions concerning the limits of language planning. How far can language planning go? Is it possible to change the sociolinguistic landscape of an entire language community – a country for instance?
We have now reached the end of our journey through the history of language planning and language struggles in modern Norway. In Norway itself, at the time of writing (2013) the sea is calm where earlier it was very rough. The ‘linguistic avalanche’ which Einar Haugen (1966a) said was still sliding has finally come to a halt. So what are the results of a century-and-a-half of language planning and linguistic strife?
Major conclusions
Two major conclusions can be drawn from the history of language planning policies in modern Norway:
It is possible to achieve far-reaching results if language planning – involving corpus as well as status planning – is consistent with the dominant contemporary ideology. This happened during the period between 1814 and 1917, when language planning was conducted primarily within a nationalist framework.
If language planning involves crossing important sociolinguistic boundaries in a given society, it will need extensive backing and support from a powerful political movement in order to succeed.
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- Language Planning as a Sociolinguistic ExperimentThe Case of Modern Norwegian, pp. 164 - 172Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2014