Intro -- Language Planning as Nation Building -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Language, nation, nationalism -- 1.2 The schrijftaalregeling -- 1.3 Overview of the book -- Part I. Setting the stage -- Chapter 2. Language and nation in Late Modern times -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Political changes -- 2.3 Language and nation -- 2.4 Education -- 2.5 Policy -- 2.6 Final remarks -- Chapter 3. Sociolinguistic space -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Diglossia and diaglossia -- 3.3 English and German diaglossia -- 3.4 Dutch diaglossia -- 3.5 Supralocalisation -- 3.6 Codifications and audiences -- 3.7 Final remarks: From diaglossia to diglossia -- Chapter 4. Metalinguistic space -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The three stages of normative grammar -- 4.3 From elitist to 'civil' grammar -- 4.4 From 'civil' to national grammar -- 4.5 Nominal inflection as a test case -- 4.6 Final remarks -- Part II. Myth building -- Chapter 5. The Golden Age Myth -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Language myths and the history of Dutch -- 5.3 The Golden Age Myth -- 5.3.1 Looking back on the Golden Age -- 5.3.2 Nationalising the Golden Age -- Official support for the Golden Age Myth -- The Golden Age and language change -- 5.3.3 The Golden Age continues -- 5.4 Final remarks -- Chapter 6. The Myth of Neutrality -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Neutrality in Dutch -- 6.3 Two types of neutrality -- 6.4 Neutrality as a shared space -- 6.4.1 From regionality to neutrality as patchwork -- 6.4.2 The mother tongue and hierarchisation -- 6.4.3 Developing neutrality through erasure -- 6.4.4 Polishing the mother tongue -- 6.4.5 Reconceptualising the mother tongue -- 6.5 Neutrality as unmarkedness -- 6.5.1 Educational discourse and policy -- 6.5.2 Enlightenment, emancipation, anonymity - and authenticity -- 6.6 Final remarks.

Part III. Discipline formation -- Chapter 7. Nationalising the lexicon -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The first plans (1760s-1770s) -- 7.2.1 Van Iperen's proposal -- 7.2.2 Van den Berg's letter -- 7.2.3 The well-reasoned plan -- 7.2.4 The concise plan -- 7.3 The first problems (1770s-1790s) -- 7.3.1 The linguistic questions -- 7.3.2 A new plan -- 7.4 The first publication (1799) -- 7.5 New plans (1800s-1840s) -- 7.6 The final plan (1849-1852) -- 7.6.1 Congress 1849 -- 7.6.2 Congress 1850 -- 7.6.3 Congress 1851 -- 7.6.4 Volume I of the WNT (1882) -- 7.7 Final remarks -- Chapter 8. Standard language linguistics -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Dutch studies in periodicals -- 8.2.1 The study of Dutch vis-�a-vis other cultural fields -- 8.2.2 The national language -- 8.2.3 Linguistics -- 8.2.4 The historical model of linguistic and cultural change -- 8.2.5 Conclusions -- 8.3 Matthijs Siegenbeek and the Dutch language -- 8.3.1 Siegenbeek's linguistic heritage -- 8.3.2 The Myth of the Golden Age -- 8.3.3 Dutch in contact with French and German -- 8.3.4 The language of the nation -- 8.3.5 Conclusions -- 8.4 Final remarks -- Chapter 9. The folklorisation of non-standard language -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Variation, folklorisation and two types of authenticity -- 9.3 Representing regional variation in the eighteenth century -- 9.3.1 Erasing variation -- 9.3.2 Embracing variation -- 9.3.3 Enregistering variation -- 9.4 The emergence of the study of regional varieties -- 9.5 Final remarks -- Part IV. Perspectives from below -- Chapter 10. Policy and its implementation in education: With Bob Schoemaker -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Educational policy: Major changes -- 10.2.1 Education in the eighteenth century -- 10.2.2 A discourse of change -- 10.2.3 Changes in educational policy -- 10.3 Language norms and language use in the national school system.

10.3.1 The school inspection system -- 10.3.2 Transmission of language norms -- 10.3.3 Language use in the classroom -- 10.4 Language norms in teaching materials -- 10.5 Final remarks -- Chapter 11. The effects of planning on usage: With Andreas Krogull -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 The Going Dutch Corpus -- 11.3 Orthography -- 11.3.1 Vowels -- 11.3.2 Consonants -- 11.4 Morphosyntax -- 11.4.1 The genitive -- 11.4.2 Relativisation -- 11.5 Final remarks -- Chapter 12. Standard language ideology in the Netherlands: Themes and research directions -- Splitting the continuum -- Authority and authenticity -- Agency -- Implementation -- References -- Index.

From the 1750s onwards, the discourse of one language-one nation was transformed into top-down policies to disseminate the newly devised standard language across the newly established Dutch nation-state. The Dutch case offers an exciting perspective on the rise of cultural nationalism, national language planning and standard language ideology.

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