Purism and nationalism in language norms : A comparative analysis of the Norwegian and Slovak spelling reform adopted during World War II
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://reference-global.com/article/10.2478/jazcas-2025-0040?tab=preview" target="_blank" >https://reference-global.com/article/10.2478/jazcas-2025-0040?tab=preview</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2025-0040" target="_blank" >10.2478/jazcas-2025-0040</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Purism and nationalism in language norms : A comparative analysis of the Norwegian and Slovak spelling reform adopted during World War II
Original language description
The linguistic situation in interwar Norway and Czechoslovakia had several parallels. The official languages in both countries were represented by two written standards: Norwegian in the form of Bokmål and Nynorsk, and, in Czechoslovakia, Czech and Slovak – separate but closely related languages that were officially referred to as the Czechoslovak language. At the same time, both countries adopted spelling norms during this period to gradually unify the language variants into one. In Norway, this process took the form of a mutual approximation of Bokmål and Nynorsk, while in Czechoslovakia, it primarily involved bringing Slovak closer to Czech. Both the Norwegian spelling reform of 1938 and the Rules of Slovak Orthography of 1931 caused controversy. Moreover, in both cases, the new rules were adopted during the Second World War, at a time when both Norway and the newly established Slovak Republic were Nazi Germany’s allies. This article focuses on the impact of political changes on spelling reforms and, through comparative analysis, seeks to identify the elements, approaches, or ideas that may connect the new rules despite the different linguistic natures of the analysed languages.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
JAZYKOVEDNÝ ČASOPIS
ISSN
0021-5597
e-ISSN
1338-4287
Volume of the periodical
76
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
SK - SLOVAKIA
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
493-508
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105027669537