Nad Dolníkovou Teorií spisovného jazyka o konceptuálních a metodologických problémech ve výzkumu jazykových norem a spisovné variety

• Authors: Vít Dovalil

Title variants

EN

ON DOLNIK’S THEORY OF STANDARD LANGUAGE AND CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN RESEARCH ON LINGUISTIC NORMS AND THE STANDARD VARIETY

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This article, drawing upon Juraj Dolník’s book on the theory of standard language with regard to standard Slovak (2010), concentrates on the question of the sources of standard variety and the problem of objectivity of scientific knowledge. Reconsidering Dolník’s concept of norm critically, it places emphasis on the fact that linguistic norms, as a part of social norms, are constituted in interactions, which helps to explain their indexicality. It also argues that language users are actors in social processes who hold specific social roles, which corresponds to their differing power (and vice versa). Referring to Language Management Theory, the article concludes with some more general arguments in favor of qualitative methodology in the research on linguistic norms and the standard variety.

Keywords

EN

STANDARD VARIETY; NORM; NORMATIVE AND COGNITIVE EXPECTATIONS; CODIFICATION; LANGUAGE MANAGEMENT; POWER; ACTOR; PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovo a slovesnost: časopis pro otázky teorie a kultury jazyka (Slovo a slovesnost: A journal for the theory of language and language cultivation)
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 73
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 135-147

Contributors

author

Vít Dovalil

• Ústav germánských studií FF UK, nám.J. Palacha 2, Praha 1, 116 38, Czech Republic