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The German Language and the Real World: Sociolinguistic, Cultural, and Pragmatic Perspectives on Contemporary German

The German Language and the Real World: Sociolinguistic, Cultural, and Pragmatic Perspectives on Contemporary German


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Language has always played an important part in the debate about cultural and political identity in the German-speaking areas of Europe. It is therefore not surprising that the dramatic events of the early 1990s, most notably the reunification of Germany, have led to an upsurge of interest in the German language. This collection of essays provides an insight into the interests and approaches of German-speaking linguists in this period of dynamic change, focusing on the forms, functions, and uses of contemporary German. Some contributors address broad issues - language and nationality, the status of German as an international language, language change and attempts to fix the form of language, and sociolinguistic variation, while others examine topics of particular significance in today's socioplitical scene. These include social change and linguistic variation in Berlin after the Wall, the political language of the Right and Left, the speech of youth subcultures, language and gender, language and television, and language in intercultural communication.

Table of Contents:
Patrick Stevenson: The Study of Real Language: Observing the Observers Ulrich Ammon: To What Extent is German an International Language? Florian Coulmas: Germanness: Language and Nation Wolfgang Werner Sauer and Helmut Glück: Norms and Reforms Helmut Glück and Wolfgang Werner Sauer: Directions of Change in Contemporary German Helmut Schönfeld and Peter Schlobinski: After the Wall: Social Change and Linguistic Variation in Berlin Norbert Dittmar: Theories of Sociolinguistic Variation in the German Context Martina Rost-Roth: Language in Intercultural Communication Ruth Wodak: Critical Linguistics and the Study of Institutional Communication Siegfried Jäger: Political Discourse: The Language of Right and Left in Germany Sylvia Moosmüller: Evaluation of Language use in Public Discourse: Language Attitudes in Austria Marlis Hellinger: Language and Gender Peter Schlobinski: Jugendsprachen: Speech Styles of Youth Subcultures Werner Holly: Language and Television

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`These contributions work well together as a collected volume. They constitute a theme, and raise interesting questions for future research.' Neil G. Jacobs, Ohio State University, Language in Society 26:2 (1997) `These contributions work well together as a collected volume. They constitute a theme, and raise interesting questions for future research.' Neil G. Jacobs, Ohio State University, Language in Society 26:2 (1997) `This volume gives an excellent overview of the situation of the German language today. ... I commend this book to all those with an interest in the German language of the 1990s in the context of social and political changes taking place in the German-speaking countries.' Notes on Linguistics 78, 1997 `A wide-ranging volume.' Year's Work in Modern language Studies This volume is mainly a collection of syntheses of previous research in different areas, and as such it does succeed at providing the reader with an overview of how German and Austrian scholars of sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and discourse analysis analyze the 'German language in the real world'. / Jennifer Dailey-O'Cain, University of Alberta, and Rosina Lippi-Green, Western Washington University, American Journal of German Linguistics and Literatures, Vol 10, no 1, 1998


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780198237389
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Clarendon Press
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 428
  • Spine Width: 24 mm
  • Weight: 652 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0198237383
  • Publisher Date: 09 Oct 1997
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Sociolinguistic, Cultural, and Pragmatic Perspectives on Contemporary German
  • Width: 156 mm


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