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The close relation between language and politics was noted by George Orwell many years ago. Undoubtedly, no other political phenomenon brings this relationship more sharply into focus than that of nationalism."In our time, the national community has assumed paramount power," notes Frederick Hertz. Along with this development, "the national language has become one of the idols of a new religion. All nations regard it as a symbol of their independence and honour, as the supreme expression of their personality, and they esteem its exclusive domination within their national territory more highly than obvious spiritual and material advantages." Indeed, language has been widely (though in some cases erroneously) accepted as one of the prime indicators of national identity.

With the exception of the Council for German Orthography, there is no German governmental institution with a political mandate to legitimately provide support for a linguistic standardisation of a national language. Against this backdrop, this article will examine the various non-governmental German-language linguistic institutions. In the German-speaking regions, the language academies of neighbouring countries have always served as a model; however, the linguistic societies and language associations that have been established have primarily been devoted to language cultivation.

This article looks at the historicisation of the native speaker and ideologies of authenticity and anonymity in Europe's language revitalisation movements. It focuses specifically on the case of Irish in the Republic of Ireland and examines how the native speaker ideology and the opposing ideological constructs of authenticity and anonymity filter down to the belief systems and are discursively produced by social actors on the ground. For this I draw on data from ongoing fieldwork in the Republic of Ireland, drawing on interviews with a group of Irish language enthusiasts located outside the officially designated Irish-speaking Gaeltacht.

V prispevku se osredotočam na govorno izražanje v gledališču, predvsem na potrebe jezikovnih uporabnikov (igralcev, lektorjev idr.) in njihovo jezikovno opremljenost. Po pregledu zakonodajnih in drugih pravno veljavnih dokumentov (Zakon o javni rabi slovenščine, Zakon o medijih, Zakon o uresničevanju javnega interesa za kulturo in Resolucija o nacionalnem programu za kulturo 2014–2017) ter po izvedbi in interpretaciji rezultatov empirične raziskave ugotavljam, da je veljavna zakonodaja s področja jezika (govora) v gledališču primerna, profesionalni uporabniki pa bi potrebovali nekatere jezikovne priročnike (pravorečni priročnik, terminološki slovarji) in zbir smernic o neknjižnih zvrsteh jezika. In the article we focus on speech expression in theatre, predominantly on the needs of the users of the language (actors, language consultants, etc.) and the level of their language equipment. After an overview of the legislation and other legal documents (Public Use of the Slovene Language Act, Media Act, Exercising of the Public Interest in Culture Act and Resolution on the 2014–2017 National Programme for Culture) as well as after interpreting the results of empirical research we find that the current legislation from the field of language (speech) in theatre is adequate and that professional users would need several linguistic manuals (pronunciation guide, terminological dictionary) and a selection of guidelines about non-standard language forms.