Germanic language histories 'from below' (1700-2000) / editors, Stephan Elspass [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Elspass, Stephan.

Series:

Studia linguistica Germanica ; 86.

Studia linguistica Germanica, 1861-5651 ; 86

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Germanic languages--History.

Germanic languages.

Germanic languages--Variation.

Germanic languages--Standardization--History.

Germanic languages--Standardization--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (530 pages) : illustrations, maps (some color).

Edition:

Reprint 2011

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, [2007]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Introduction

A twofold view 'from below': New perspectives on language histories and language historiographies / ELSPASS, STEPHAN

I. Language variation in letters, diaries and other text sources from below

"As this leaves me at present" - Formulaic usage, politeness, and social proximity in nineteenth-century Scottish emigrants' letters / DOSSENA, MARINA

'Lower-order' letters, schooling and the English language, 1795 to 1834 / FAIRMAN, TONY

"Doch mein Mann möchte doch mal wissen ..." A discourse analysis of 19th-century emigrant men and women's private correspondence / MCLELLAND, NICOLA

Remnants of Western Yiddish in East Frisia / REERSHEMIUS, GERTRUD

Eighteenth-century linguistic variation from the perspective of a Dutch diary and a collection of private letters / van der Wal, Marijke

II. From past to present: Change from above - change from below

'Time and Tyne': a corpus-based study of variation and change in relativization strategies in Tyneside English / BEAL, JOAN C. / CORRIGAN, KAREN P.

Syntactic surprises in some English letters: the underlying progress of the language / DENISON, DAVID

YOU and THOU in Early Modern English: cross-linguistic perspectives / DURY, RICHARD

On the history of verbal present participle converbs in English and Norwegian and the concept of 'change from below' / KILLIE, KRISTIN

The grammaticalization of geben 'to give' in German and Luxembourgish / LENZ, ALEXANDRA

A corpus-based study of modern colloquial 'Flemish' / PLEVOETS, KOEN / SPEELMAN, DIRK / GEERAERTS, DIRK

'Tussentaal' as a source of change from below in Belgian Dutch. A case study of substandardization processes in the chat language of Flemish teenagers / VANDEKERCKHOVE, REINHILD

III. Language norms and standardization in a view form below

Surinamese Dutch: The development of a unique Germanic Language variety / KLEINE, CHRISTA DE

"Zoo schrijve ek lievers my sort Afrikaans" - Speaker agency, identity, and resistance in the history of Afrikaans / DEUMERT, ANA

"Deutsch ist eine würde-lose Sprache". On the history of a failed prescription / DURRELL, MARTIN

To boldly split the infinitive - or not? Prescriptive traditions and current English usage / FISCHER, ROSWITHA

Norm consciousness and corpus constitution in the study of Earlier Modern Germanic Languages / POUNDER, AMANDA

Variability and professionalism as prerequisites of standardization / VOESTE, ANJA

Putting standard German to the test: some notes on the linguistic competence of grammarschool students and teachers in the nineteenth century / ZIEGLER, EVELYN

IV. Language choice and language planning

The choice between German and French for the German nobility of the late 18th century / ARZBERGER, STEFFEN

Flirting at the fringe - The status of the German varieties as perceived by language activists in Belgium's Areler Land / DARQUENNES, JEROEN

Language and Luxembourgish national identity: ideologies of hybridity and purity in the past and present / HORNER, KRISTINE

The planning of modern Norwegian as a sociolinguistic experiment - 'from below' / JAHR, ERNST HÅKON

The death of Standard German in 19th-century Budapest. A case study on the role of linguistic ideologies in language shift / MAITZ, PÉTER

1750-1850: The disappearance of German from Bergen, Norway / NESSE, AGNETE

Societal multilingualism and language conflicts in Galicia in the 19th century / PTASHNYK, STEFANIYA

New data on language policy and language choice in 19th-century Flemish city administrations / VANHECKE, ELINE / DE GROOF, JETJE

V. Reflections on alternative language histories

Communicative genres as categories in a socio-cultural history of communication / LINKE, ANGELIKA

Deconstructing episodes in the 'history of English' / WATTS, RICHARD J.

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110925463

311092546X

OCLC:

979606763