Gyarmati nyelvpolitikák az első globalizáció idején
Colonial Language Policies under First Globalization

Summary/Abstract: The paper synthesizes the rapidly expanding literature on the de facto language policies that overseas colonial empires implemented in the half-century before World War I. Emphasis is placed on the large distance separating these from metropolitan public discourses and political rhetoric. Practices on the ground were shaped by more actors, they were more diverse, pragmatic and muddled than contemporaries at home assumed or wished for. Planning the acquisition of the colonizers’ languages had a limited immediate scope. Instead, the standardization of some indigenous idioms seems to be a more enduring legacy of the era.

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