Germanic Language Histories from Below (1700-2000)
Edited by
Stephan Elspass - Nils Langer - Joachim Scharloth
ISBN:
3110193353
ISBN 13:
9783110193350
Germanic Language Histories from Below (1700-2000)
Focusing on the sociolinguistic history of Germanic languages, this book attempts to challenge the traditional teleological approach of language historiography. It presents alternative histories of various Germanic languages and varieties. It covers language variation and change and the politics of language contact and choice.
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Complete description
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.
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General info
Publisher & Imprint:
Walter de Gruyter & Co
City:
Berlin
Pages:
530
More info:
height 230 mm
width 155 mm
weight 1027 gr
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Age recommended:
College/higher education
Subject Indexing & Classification
Dewey:(DC22) 430.9
Departments:
Historical & comparative linguistics;
Record updated at:
07 June, 2013
time:
12:42
Summary
Germanic Language Histories from Below (1700-2000)
Introduction Stephan Elspass: A twofold view 'from below': New perspectives on language histories and historical grammar; I. Language variation in letters, diaries and other text sources from below Marina Dossena: "As this leaves me at present" - Formulaic usage, politeness and social proximity in nineteenth-century Scottish emigrants' letters; Tony Fairman: 'Lower-order' letters, schooling and the English language, 1795 to 1834; Nicola McLelland: "Doch mein Mann mochte doch mal wissen..." A discourse analysis of 19th-century emigrant men and women's private correspondence; Gertrud Reershemius: Remnants of Western Yiddish in East Frisia; Marijke van der Wal: Eighteenth-century linguistic variation from the perspective of a Dutch diary and a collection of private letters; II. From past to present: Change from above - change from below Joan C. Beal/Karen P. Corrigan: 'Time and Tyne': a corpus-based study of variation and change in relativization strategies in Tyneside English; David Denison: Syntactic surprises in some English letters: the underlying progress of the language; Richard Dury: YOU and THOU in Early Modern English: cross-linguistic perspectives; Kirstin Killie: On the history of verbal present participle converbs in English and Norwegian and the concept of 'change from below'; Alexandra Lenz: The grammaticalization of geben 'to give' in German and Luxembourgish; Koen Plevoets/Dirk Speelman/Dirk Geeraerts: A corpus-based study of colloquial 'Flemish'; Reinhild Vandekerckhove: 'Tussentaal' as a source of change from below in Belgian Dutch. A ca.
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