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Abstract
Standardology is the study of linguistic standardization. The purpose of this introduction is twofold: on the one hand, it explains the roots and traditions of this linguistic discipline by exposing the key concepts “standard”, “standardization”, “pluri-” or “polycentric standard” and “polynomic standard”, their origins and the most important contributions to them. On the other hand, it provides a comparative standardology, that is, a comparative overview of the activities of “formal” standardization in the Romance languages by characterizing the main domains of codification, the most important actors and relevant concepts underlying the codification and modernization of Romance standard languages up to the present day.
