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Germanic Language Histories 'from Below' (1700-2000)
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Edited by:
Stephan Elspaß
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2007
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
Stephan Elspaß, University of Augsburg, Germany; Nils Langer, University of Bristol, UK; Joachim Scharloth, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Wim Vandenbussche , Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.
Reviews
"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
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I - Introduction
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A twofold view ‘from below’: New perspectives on language histories and language historiographies
3 - I. Language variation in letters, diaries and other text sources from below
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"As this leaves me at present" - Formulaic usage, politeness, and social proximity in nineteenth-century Scottish emigrants' letters
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'Lower-order' letters, schooling and the English language, 1795 to 1834
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"Doch mein Mann möchte doch mal wissen ..." A discourse analysis of 19th-century emigrant men and women's private correspondence
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Remnants of Western Yiddish in East Frisia
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Eighteenth-century linguistic variation from the perspective of a Dutch diary and a collection of private letters
83 - II. From past to present: Change from above - change from below
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'Time and Tyne': a corpus-based study of variation and change in relativization strategies in Tyneside English
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Syntactic surprises in some English letters: the underlying progress of the language
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YOU and THOU in Early Modern English: cross-linguistic perspectives
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On the history of verbal present participle converbs in English and Norwegian and the concept of 'change from below'
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The grammaticalization of geben 'to give' in German and Luxembourgish
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A corpus-based study of modern colloquial 'Flemish'
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'Tussentaal' as a source of change from below in Belgian Dutch. A case study of substandardization processes in the chat language of Flemish teenagers
189 - III. Language norms and standardization in a view form below
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Surinamese Dutch: The development of a unique Germanic Language variety
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"Zoo schrijve ek lievers my sort Afrikaans" - Speaker agency, identity, and resistance in the history of Afrikaans
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"Deutsch ist eine würde-lose Sprache". On the history of a failed prescription
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To boldly split the infinitive - or not? Prescriptive traditions and current English usage
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Norm consciousness and corpus constitution in the study of Earlier Modern Germanic Languages
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Variability and professionalism as prerequisites of standardization
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Putting standard German to the test: some notes on the linguistic competence of grammarschool students and teachers in the nineteenth century
309 - IV. Language choice and language planning
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The choice between German and French for the German nobility of the late 18th century
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Flirting at the fringe - The status of the German varieties as perceived by language activists in Belgium's Areler Land
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Language and Luxembourgish national identity: ideologies of hybridity and purity in the past and present
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The planning of modern Norwegian as a sociolinguistic experiment - 'from below'
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The death of Standard German in 19th-century Budapest. A case study on the role of linguistic ideologies in language shift
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1750-1850: The disappearance of German from Bergen, Norway
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Societal multilingualism and language conflicts in Galicia in the 19th century
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New data on language policy and language choice in 19th-century Flemish city administrations
449 - V. Reflections on alternative language histories
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Communicative genres as categories in a socio-cultural history of communication
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Deconstructing episodes in the 'history of English'
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Index
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
July 26, 2011
eBook ISBN:
9783110925463
Hardcover published on:
May 18, 2007
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110193350
Edition:
Reprint 2011
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Front matter:
10
Main content:
520
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Num. figs.
Keywords for this book
Historical Sociolinguistics; Historical Linguistics; Germanic languages; Historical grammar; Social History
Audience(s) for this book
Linguists, Institutes, Libraries
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