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19 - Transnational Standards of Languages

The Rise and Codification of National Varieties

from Part IV - Beyond the National

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2021

By
Raymond Hickey
Edited by
Wendy Ayres-Bennett  and
John Bellamy
Wendy Ayres-Bennett
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
John Bellamy
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
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Summary

The rise of standard forms of language for both the English- and the Spanish-speaking worlds is a development which benefits from contrast. Both languages spread overseas, with national standards arising during the later colonial period through a process of supraregionalization by which local varieties lost strong vernacular features and came to function as non-stigmatized, publically accepted varieties. However, the details of these developments are different and the cultural attitudes to varieties spoken in the source countries in Europe vary considerably, determining the ways in which standards are viewed and used in both the Anglophone and the Hispanophone worlds.

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transnationalstandardizationgrammarphonologycolonial expansionoverseas varietiespluricentric languagesprescriptivism
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The Cambridge Handbook of Language Standardization , pp. 519 - 545
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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