Language Planning as a Sociolinguistic Experiment

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748637829','ISBN:9780748678341']); A study of language planning using Norwegian as a case study 2014 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of the Norwegian nation following centuries of Danish rule. This book gives a comprehensive account of that entire 200-year period, and analyses how Norwegians defined, fought over, and developed their own independent Scandinavian language, differentiating it from Danish and Swedish, through language planning. The al