Questão 506683

Read the text on historical linguistics and language standardization:

'The standardization of national languages was rarely an organic evolutionary process; rather, it was systematically enforced through bureaucratic centralization, national print media, and compulsory primary education during state-building eras. By elevating prestige sociolects to the status of official standard languages, administrative authorities intentionally delegitimized regional dialects, framing them as vernacular deviations in need of linguistic remediation.'

According to the author, the process of language standardization was primarily: