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AB -  Anton M. Hagen 1. Dialect and Education Studies in Europe Background It is an old idea in Europe that dialects are obstacles to the progress of civilisation and the welfare of mankind. Remember abbe Gregoire's famous revolutionary "Rapport sur la necessite et les moyens d'aneantir les patois et d'universaliser l'usage de la langue frangaise", dating from 1794. He severely orders that schools should contribute to the total elimination of French dialects (cf. Certeau et al. 1975). Such a hostile attitude towards dialects was not very obvious for example for the German state with its traditional inclination towards regionalism. No wonder that as early as 1867 a very influential book was published in Leipzig, which advocates that the teaching of the standard language should be done in close connection with the nonstandard home language of the children (Hildebrand 1867). Between these extremes for a long time the massive practice of school education in most countries seems to have been a wait-and-see policy, which was inspired by the expectation that regional dialects would disappear very fast under the influence of industrial innovation, new means of communication and mass education. This same expectation became from 1870 on the main impetus for 
TI - Dialect Speaking and School Education in Western Europe
JF - Sociolinguistica
DO - 10.1515/9783110245066.61
DA - 1987-12-31
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/de-gruyter/dialect-speaking-and-school-education-in-western-europe-4F5J6e9fzi
SP - 61
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