Contents

pp v-ix

List of figures

pp x-x

Preface

pp xi-xii

Map of Norway

pp xiii-xiv

1 - Land and people, language and language planning

pp 1-14

PART I - THE NATIONALIST PERIOD, 1814–1917

pp 15-16

2 - Before the start of language planning: 1814–45

pp 17-34

3 - A language based on upper-middle-class speech or peasant dialects? The programmes proposed by Knud Knudsen and Ivar Aasen

pp 35-56

4 - The language question becomes a major political issue: 1860–1907

pp 57-76

5 - Two Norwegian written standards: is linguistic reconciliation possible? Early twentieth century up to the 1917 language reforms

pp 77-98

PART II - THE SOCIOPOLITICAL PERIOD, 1917–66

pp 99-100

6 - The emergence of a socialist theory of language planning: a sociolinguistic experiment

pp 101-126

7 - The post-war language struggle (1945–66) to counter the sociolinguistic experiment of 1938

pp 127-146

PART III - FROM A SINGLE-STANDARD TO A TWO-STANDARD STRATEGY

pp 147-148

8 - The end of the single-standard policy (1966–2002): reforms in 1981 and 2005 (for Bokmål) and 2012 (for Nynorsk)

pp 149-163

9 - Summary and concluding remarks

pp 164-172

References

pp 173-192

List of terms of language varieties

pp 193-197

Timeline for the different written varieties of Norwegian

pp 198-198

Timeline of important events for language planning and conflict in modern Norway

pp 199-203

Index

pp 204-218