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

J 2025

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

BRATINA, Tomáš

Základní údaje

Originální název

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

Autoři

BRATINA, Tomáš

Vydání

JAZYKOVEDNÝ ČASOPIS, Bratislava, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Ľudovít Štúr Institute of Linguistics, 2025, 0021-5597

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

60203 Linguistics

Stát vydavatele

Slovensko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14210/25:00143345

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

DOI

https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2025-0040

EID Scopus

2-s2.0-105027669537

Klíčová slova anglicky

orthography; spelling reform; purism; nationalism; language policy; Slovak; Norwegian

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 12. 2. 2026 15:27, Mgr. et Mgr. Stanislav Hasil, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

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.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1674/2024, interní kód MU

Název: Moderní germanistický výzkum: Transfer, lingvistika, literární věda a didaktika cizího jazyka

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Moderní germanistický výzkum: Transfer, lingvistika, literární věda a didaktika cizího jazyka

Citovat

BRATINA, Tomáš. Purism and nationalism in language norms : A comparative analysis of the Norwegian and Slovak spelling reform adopted during World War II. JAZYKOVEDNÝ ČASOPIS. Bratislava: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Ľudovít Štúr Institute of Linguistics, 2025, roč. 76, č. 2, s. 493-508. ISSN 0021-5597. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2025-0040.

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BRATINA, Tomáš. Purism and nationalism in language norms : A comparative analysis of the Norwegian and Slovak spelling reform adopted during World War II. \textit{JAZYKOVEDNÝ ČASOPIS}. Bratislava: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Ľudovít Štúr Institute of Linguistics, 2025, roč.~76, č.~2, s.~493-508. ISSN~0021-5597. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2025-0040.

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