Keelekorraldus Nõukogude Eestis - Vaateid eesti keelekorralduse arenguloole
Corpus planning in Soviet Estonia - Views on the development of Estonian language planning

Summary/Abstract: As far as Estonian language planning is concerned, the 45 years after World War II, when Estonian was ruled by Soviet power, were not all of equal weight. The first post-war decade was spent in an effort to make Estonian a “Soviet” language by following the guidelines coming down from the leadership of the Academy of Sciences, the state publishing house and other government agencies. For the next quarter of a century, i.e., up to the late 1970s, Estonian corpus planning was the responsibility of conservative linguists, who believed that standard Estonian was ready, so that there was no reason to change its norms and only some lexical additions were in order. However, in addition to norm fixation the period started bringing usage recommendations and more attention came to be paid to language culture in general. In the 1970s-1980s, the emerging generation of language planners carried an understanding of standard language as a phenomenon in variation and change, and so the planners’ main responsibility was to monitor that change.

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