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The dynamics of language obsolescence in a divided speech community : the case of the German Wischau / Vyškov Enclave - Czech Republic / Fillippo Nereo.
LIBRA PF5399.V9 N474 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nereo, Filippo, author.
- Series:
- Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik. Beihefte ; n.F., Heft 163.
- Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik. Beihefte ; Band 163
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- German language--Dialects--Czech Republic--Vyškov (Brněnský kraj)--History.
- German language.
- Linguistic change--Czech Republic--Vyškov (Brněnský kraj).
- Linguistic change.
- Sociolinguistics--Czech Republic--Vyškov (Brněnský kraj).
- Sociolinguistics.
- Language obsolescence--Czech Republic--Vyškov (Brněnský kraj).
- Language obsolescence.
- Germans--Czech Republic--History.
- Germans.
- German language--Dialects.
- Linguistic change--Social aspects.
- History.
- Czech Republic--Vyškov (Brněnský kraj).
- Czech Republic.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 145 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, [2016]
- Summary:
- Using the Wischau/Vyškov speech enclave (Czech Republic) as a case study, this book considers the impact of the highly controversial population transfers of ethnic Germans at the end of World War II. Particular attention is paid to processes of identification amongst community members, the post-war sociolinguistic context, and aspects of the language variety itself, which has remained structurally intact. Importantly, the study reveals the stories and experiences of forced migration and integration from the perspective of both stayers, who until 1989/90 lived under communism, and expellees, who started new lives in the capitalist Federal Republic of Germany. Methodologically, the study is based on data elicited chiefly from participant observations of, and unstructured interviews with the last remaining witnesses of the 1945/46 population transfers. As such, this is the first and probably last detailed study of this small, rural German enclave community. From a theoretical perspective, it draws heavily on Sasse's (1992) framework on language death.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [132]-145).
- ISBN:
- 9783515101028
- 3515101020
- OCLC:
- 946906708
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