Standardization in the Romance Languages (2014-2020)
Im Januar 2020 erschien der Band Manual of Standardization in the Romance Languages. Der Band ist Teil der neuen, von Günter Holtus (Göttingen) und Fernando Sánchez Miret (Salamanca) im De Gruyter Verlag herausgegebenen Reihe Manuals of Romance Linguistics. Im Anschluss an das Lexikon der Romanistischen Linguistik (LRL) und die Romanischen Sprachgeschichte (RSG) und unter Einbeziehung der allgemeinlinguistischen Forschung wird ein Panorama der aktuellen Debatten über die theoretische Grundlegung, die Geschichte und die künftige Entwicklung von Sprachnormierung und Standardsprache in der Romania geboten.
Language standardization is an ongoing process based on the notions
of linguistic correctness and models. This manual contains thirty-six
chapters that deal with the theories of linguistic norms and give a
comprehensive up-to-date description and analysis of the standardization
processes in the Romance languages. The first section presents
the essential approaches to the concept of linguistic norm ranging from
antiquity to the present, and includes individual chapters on the notion
of linguistic norms and correctness in classical grammar and rhetoric,
in the Prague School, in the linguistic theory of Eugenio Coseriu, in
sociolinguistics as well as in pragmatics, cognitive and discourse
linguistics. The second section focuses on the application of
these notions with respect to the Romance languages. It examines in
detail the normative grammar and the normative dictionary as the
reference tools for language codification and modernization of those
languages that have a long and well-established written tradition, i.e.
Romanian, Italian, French, Catalan, Spanish, and Portuguese. Furthermore,
the volume offers a discussion of the key issues regarding the
standardization of the ‘minor’ Romance languages as well as Creoles.
De Gruyter / Manuals of Romance Linguistics
