TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ayres-Bennett,Wendy
AU  - Bellamy,John
TI  - The Cambridge handbook of language standardization
T2  - Cambridge handbooks in language and linguistics
SN  - 9781108471817
AV  - P368 .A97 2021
U1  - 418 AYR (CR) 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Standard language
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "1. Introduction In this chapter, I outline the development of some of the most widely used models of standardization and consider the extent to which they are able to account for the complexities of the standardization process and its different manifestations in diverse linguistic, historical and socio-cultural contexts. The 2010s witnessed a renewed interest in standardization and the publication of a host of works addressing current questions such as restandardization or the applicability of models of standardization to minority and minoritized languages, as well as book-length studies of individual languages. Since standard language ideology has traditionally been associated with nationalist aspirations and identity politics, with its roots in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, recent studies have also questioned whether, in a post-modern world, with greater democratization and social change, the role of standard languages is weakening, and the boundary between standard and non-standard is becoming less well-defined (cf. Lüdi 2012: 217). All of this work has sharpened the need to reconsider the appropriateness of existing models and raised questions about the extent to which 'comparative standardology', to use Joseph's (1987: 13) term, is possible"--
ER  -