Language Planning as tion Building : Ideology, policy and implementation in the Netherlands, 1750-1850

The decades around 1800 constitute the semil period of European tiolism. The linguistic corollary of this was the rise of standard language ideology, from Finland to Spain, and from Iceland to the Habsburg Empire. Amidst these intertiol events, the case of Dutch in the Netherlands offers a unique example. After the rise of the ideology from the 1750s onwards, the new discourse of one language–one tion was swiftly transformed into concrete top-down policies aimed at the dissemition of the newly devised standard language across the entire population of the newly established Dutch tion-state. Thus, the Dutch case offers an exciting perspective on the concomitant rise of cultural tiolism, tiol language planning and standard language ideology. This study offers a comprehensive yet detailed alysis of these phenome by focussing on the ideology underpinning the new language policy, the institutiolisation of this ideology in metalinguistic discourse, the implementation of the policy in education, and the effects of

the policy on actual language use. [Publisher's text]