Germanic Language Histories 'from Below' (1700-2000)

Published by De Gruyter 2007

Germanic Language Histories 'from Below' (1700-2000)

Edited by: Stephan Elspaß , Nils Langer , Joachim Scharloth and Wim Vandenbussche

Volume 86 in the series Studia Linguistica Germanica

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110925463

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Contents

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

Topics

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Introduction
A twofold view ‘from below’: New perspectives on language histories and language historiographies STEPHAN ELSPASS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
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 MARINA DOSSENA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
'Lower-order' letters, schooling and the English language, 1795 to 1834 TONY FAIRMAN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
"Doch mein Mann möchte doch mal wissen ..." A discourse analysis of 19th-century emigrant men and women's private correspondence NICOLA MCLELLAND Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Remnants of Western Yiddish in East Frisia GERTRUD REERSHEMIUS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Eighteenth-century linguistic variation from the perspective of a Dutch diary and a collection of private letters Marijke van der Wal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
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 JOAN C. BEAL and KAREN P. CORRIGAN Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Syntactic surprises in some English letters: the underlying progress of the language DAVID DENISON Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
YOU and THOU in Early Modern English: cross-linguistic perspectives RICHARD DURY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
On the history of verbal present participle converbs in English and Norwegian and the concept of 'change from below' KRISTIN KILLIE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
The grammaticalization of geben 'to give' in German and Luxembourgish ALEXANDRA LENZ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
A corpus-based study of modern colloquial 'Flemish' KOEN PLEVOETS, DIRK SPEELMAN and DIRK GEERAERTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
'Tussentaal' as a source of change from below in Belgian Dutch. A case study of substandardization processes in the chat language of Flemish teenagers REINHILD VANDEKERCKHOVE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
III. Language norms and standardization in a view form below
Surinamese Dutch: The development of a unique Germanic Language variety CHRISTA DE KLEINE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
"Zoo schrijve ek lievers my sort Afrikaans" - Speaker agency, identity, and resistance in the history of Afrikaans ANA DEUMERT Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
"Deutsch ist eine würde-lose Sprache". On the history of a failed prescription MARTIN DURRELL Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
To boldly split the infinitive - or not? Prescriptive traditions and current English usage ROSWITHA FISCHER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Norm consciousness and corpus constitution in the study of Earlier Modern Germanic Languages AMANDA POUNDER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Variability and professionalism as prerequisites of standardization ANJA VOESTE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
Putting standard German to the test: some notes on the linguistic competence of grammarschool students and teachers in the nineteenth century EVELYN ZIEGLER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
IV. Language choice and language planning
The choice between German and French for the German nobility of the late 18th century STEFFEN ARZBERGER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
Flirting at the fringe - The status of the German varieties as perceived by language activists in Belgium's Areler Land JEROEN DARQUENNES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	343
Language and Luxembourgish national identity: ideologies of hybridity and purity in the past and present KRISTINE HORNER Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
The planning of modern Norwegian as a sociolinguistic experiment - 'from below' ERNST HÅKON JAHR Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	379
The death of Standard German in 19th-century Budapest. A case study on the role of linguistic ideologies in language shift PÉTER MAITZ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	405
1750-1850: The disappearance of German from Bergen, Norway AGNETE NESSE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	423
Societal multilingualism and language conflicts in Galicia in the 19th century STEFANIYA PTASHNYK Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	437
New data on language policy and language choice in 19th-century Flemish city administrations ELINE VANHECKE and JETJE DE GROOF Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	449
V. Reflections on alternative language histories
Communicative genres as categories in a socio-cultural history of communication ANGELIKA LINKE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	473
Deconstructing episodes in the 'history of English' RICHARD J. WATTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	495
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	514

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Edition: Reprint 2011
Audience: Linguists, Institutes, Libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 520
Illustrations
- Other: Num. figs.
Keywords: Historical Sociolinguistics; Historical Linguistics; Germanic languages; Historical grammar; Social History

eBook

Published: July 26, 2011
ISBN: 9783110925463

Hardcover

Published: May 18, 2007
ISBN: 9783110193350