Language policy and planning in the Germanic and North European area - ADE511048

• Title: Language policy and planning in the Germanic and North European area
• Guaranteed by: Institute of Germanic Studies (21-UGS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2024
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: PhDr. Mgr. Vít Dovalil, Ph.D.; PhDr. Pavel Dubec, Ph.D.; Mgr. Lenka Fárová, Ph.D.

Annotation

Language planning and language policy are a part of the sociology of language. In the introduction, these key concepts are discussed and classical as well as more recent approaches (language management theory) are compared. Dimensions of status planning, corpus planning and acquisition planning are taken into account and the economic component of the processes is considered. Special attention is paid to the concepts of norm, standard variety/standard language and the processes of linguistic standardization and destandardization in the Germanic and North European area. The standard variety does not represent only a grammatical-structural phenomenon, but it is conceived of above all as a sociolinguistic and ideological issue. This is of particular importance in the postmodern era. Hence, the traditional question of what is/isn't a part of standard is transformed into a more adequat alternative - who decides about what is a part of standard variety, how, under what circumstances and with what consequences? The standard variety is (re)constituted in various power constellations that need to be researched qualitatively.

Last update: Dovalil Vít, PhDr. Mgr., Ph.D. (18.01.2024)

Aim of the course

knowledge of basic concepts of the discipline, formulation of adequate research question, critical reading, data collection, data evaluation

Last update: Dovalil Vít, PhDr. Mgr., Ph.D. (18.01.2024)

Course completion requirements

reading the texts, discussion, presentation

Last update: Dovalil Vít, PhDr. Mgr., Ph.D. (18.01.2024)

Literature

Blommaert, Jan /Leppänen, Sirpa /Pahta, Päivi /Räisänen, Tiina (eds.) (2012): Dangerous multilingualism. Northern perpectives on order, purity and normality. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 

Cooper, Robert (1989): Language planning and social change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Studer, Patrick/Werlen, Iwar (Eds.)(2012): Linguistic Diversity in Europe: Current Trends and Discourses. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

McCarthy, Teresa L. (ed.)(2011): Ethnography and Language Policy. New York/London: Routledge.

Ayres-Bennett, Wendy/Bellamy, John (eds.)(2021): The Cambridge Handbook of Language Standardization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Ricento, Thomas (ed.)(2006): An Introduction to Language Policy. Theory and Method. Malden/Oxford: Blackwell.

Fairbrother, Lisa/Nekvapil, Jiří/Sloboda, Marián (eds.)(2018): The Language Management Approach. A Focus on Research Methodology. Berlin: Peter Lang.

Vandenbussche, Wim/Deumert, Ana (Eds.)(2003): Germanic Standardization. Past to  Present. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Last update: Zbytovský Štěpán, Mgr., Ph.D. (31.01.2024)