Format:
Online-Ressource (X, 520 S.)
ISBN:
9783110925463
Series Statement:
Studia Linguistica Germanica 86
Content:
Biographical note: Stephan Elspaß, University of Augsburg, Germany; Nils Langer, University of Bristol, UK; Joachim Scharloth, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Wim Vandenbussche ,Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.
Content:
Focusing on the sociolinguistic history of Germanic languages, the current volume challenges the traditional teleological approach of language historiography. The 30 contributions present alternative histories of ten ‘big’ as well as ‘small’ Germanic languages and varieties in the last 300 years. Topics covered in this book include language variation and change and the politics of language contact and choice, seen against the background of standardization processes of written and oral text genres and from the viewpoint of larger sections of the population.
Content:
Review text: "Insgesamt handelt es sich um ein sehr detailreiches Buch, das dem an variationslinguistischen Fragestellungen interessierten Leser Einblicke in die historische Soziolinguistik und historische Pragmatik bietet und zahlreiche Forschungsperspektiven aufzeigt."Verena Teschke in: Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik 2/2009 "There is much to admire about this book. The breadth of languages discussed is impressive, as is the use of sources of data that have been neglected in more traditional approaches to historical linguistics."Marc Pierce in: Linguist List 19.2184
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110193350
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. Germanic language histories 'from below' (1700 - 2000) Berlin [u.a.] : de Gruyter, 2007 ISBN 9783110193350
Language:
English
Subjects:
German Studies
Keywords:
Germanische Sprachen
;
Sprachvariante
;
Soziale Schichtung
;
Geschichte 1700-2000
;
Germanische Sprachen
;
Marginalität
;
Geschichte 1700-2000
;
Konferenzschrift
DOI:
10.1515/9783110925463
URL:
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Author information:
Elspaß, Stephan 1963-
Author information:
Langer, Nils 1969-
Author information:
Vandenbussche, Wim 1973-
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