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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Výsledek na webu

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2025-0040" target="_blank" >10.2478/jazcas-2025-0040</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Purism and nationalism in language norms : A comparative analysis of the Norwegian and Slovak spelling reform adopted during World War II

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Purism and nationalism in language norms : A comparative analysis of the Norwegian and Slovak spelling reform adopted during World War II

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

JAZYKOVEDNÝ ČASOPIS

ISSN

0021-5597

e-ISSN

1338-4287

Svazek periodika

76

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

SK - Slovenská republika

Počet stran výsledku

16

Strana od-do

493-508

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105027669537