Stephan Elspaß
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Phone: +43 662 8044 4356
Address: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stephan Elspaß
Universität Salzburg
Fachbereich Germanistik
Erzabt-Klotz-Straße 1
A-5020 Salzburg
Phone: +43 662 8044 4356
Address: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stephan Elspaß
Universität Salzburg
Fachbereich Germanistik
Erzabt-Klotz-Straße 1
A-5020 Salzburg
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This chapter will set out with a critical review of traditional histories of linguistic standardization and current models of language standardization, in particular the four-step model by Haugen, which will be contrasted with an alternative model based on the ‘language history from below’ approach. It will then reflect on methodological aspects. One central question is that of adequate corpora, i.e. which texts and which text editions by which authors were and could be selected for the description of standardization processes. The last part of the chapter will present findings of case studies in recent research in (historical) sociolinguistics on standardization in a view ‘from below’.