Standard Languages and Multilingualism in European HistoryMatthias Hüning, Ulrike Vogl, Olivier Moliner This volume explores the roots of Europe's struggle with multilingualism. It argues that, over the centuries, the pursuit of linguistic homogeneity has become a central aspect of the mindset of Europeans. In its extreme form, it became manifest in the principle of 'one language, one state, one people'. Consequently, multilingualism came to be viewed as an undesirable aberration. The authors of this volume approach the relationship between standard languages and multilingualism from a historical, cross-European perspective. They provide a comprehensive overview of the emergence of a standard language ideology and its intricate relationship with matters of ethnicity, territorial unity and social mobility. They explain for different European language areas in what ways the emergence of standard languages had an impact on multilingual policies and practices. Its comparative approach makes this volume an important resource for linguists, researchers from different philologies and social historians. |
Contents
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I Theoretical considerations and historical background | 43 |
Ways of imagining and managing language and languages | 45 |
Marching forward into the past | 71 |
Language and ethnicity in a European context | 97 |
II Casestudies | 125 |
Multilingual speakers in a monolingual society | 127 |
Multilingualism and standardization in Greece | 153 |
Centripetal and centrifugal forces in the sociolinguistic configuration of the Iberian Peninsula | 231 |
Facing multilingualism in a context of regional monolingualism | 259 |
Scenarios of ethnic conflict and trajectories of standardization | 283 |
Multilingualism and the disputed standardizations of Macedonian and Moldovan | 309 |
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The development of Finnish into a national language | 179 |
Traces of monolingual and plurilingual ideologies in the history of language policies in France | 205 |
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