Introduction: On the undoing and redoing of corpus planning

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction: On the undoing and redoing of corpus planning 1
5. Ukrainian - reconstituting a language 11
6. “Stubborn as a mule calls for a dialectical presentation”: On undoing and redoing corpus planning in Hungary 31
7. Linguistic consequences of the Sandinista revolution and its aftermath in Nicaragua 61
8. Undoing some effects of the Cultural Revolution - Chinese address forms 95
9. The reconvergence of German after unification and its limits 117
10. The reconvergence of Vietnamese 143
11. Undoing a “unified language”: Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian 165
12. Reconvergence of Moldavian towards Romanian 193
13. The fate of Samnorsk: a social dialect experiment in language planning 215
14. Diets, Nederlands, Nederduits, Hollands, Vlaams, Belgisch- Nederlands 249
15. From Filipino to Filipino, to Filipino2: unmaking and remaking a National Language 313
16. The undoing of language planning from the vantage of cultural history: two twentieth century examples 327
17. The Turkish Language Reform forced into stagnation 357
18. Influence of the Middle-East Peace Process on the Hebrew language 385
19. The impact of the Peace Process in the Middle East on Arabic 415
20. Eradicating racism in language – the case of Afrikaans 445
21. Epilogue 477
22. List of Contributors 503
23. Index of Names 505
24. Index of Subjects 515