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Autore |
Gloning Thomas |
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Titolo |
A history of the German language through texts / / Christopher Young, Thomas Gloning |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-67189-X |
0-415-86263-9 |
9786610288526 |
1-280-28852-3 |
0-203-48807-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xv, 398 pages) : illustrations |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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German language - History |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-383) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; A History of the German Language through Texts; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Tables; Phonetic symbols and abbreviations; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Pre-textual German: From Indo-European to West Germanic; I Old High German (c.750-c.1050); 3 The Lord's Prayer: Major dialects of the OHG period and Old English; 4 Heroic Lay: Das Hildebrandslied; 5 Legal code: Lex Salica; 6 Political treaty: The Strasburg Oaths; 7 Gospel harmony: Otfrid von Weissenburg's Evangelienbuch; 8 Political praise poem: The Ludwigslied; 9 Phrasebook: The Paris Conversations |
10 History: Notker of St Gallen's prologue to his Boethius translation; II Middle High German (c.1050-c.1350); 11 Williram of Ebersberg: Commentary to the Song of Songs; 12 Courtly romance: Hartmann von Aue's Iwein; 13 French influence: Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan; 14 Legal Documents: Oath for Jews and Vienna Fief Transfer; 15 Legal code: Der Sachsenspiegel; 16 Mysticism: Mechthild von Magdeburg - Das fließende Licht der Gottheit; 17 Medicine: Breslauer Arzneibuch; III Early New High German (c.1350-c.1700); 18 Humanism and linguistic levelling: Niklas von Wyle's Translatzen |
19 Low German and the language of business: The Hanseatic League; |
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20 Language use for special purposes: Cookery recipes 1350-1600; 21 Language use in the early mass media: Reformation pamphlets; 22 Bible translation: Martin Luther; 23 Purism in the seventeenth century: Johann Rist; 24 Dialect: Andreas Gryphius's Die Geliebte Dornrose; IV New High German (c.1700-c.1945); 25 'Natural style': Letters and Moral Weeklies; 26 J.W. Goethe: Literature, natural sciences and administration; 27 Political pamphlets: Berlin 1848 |
28 Lexicography and nationalism: Jacob Grimm's Vorrede zum Deutschen Wörterbuch; 29 Industrialization, technology and language: Die Marmorirkunst and Ferdinand Lassalle; 30 Elements of everyday language use: Letters and letter-writing manuals; 31 Scientific prose in the nineteenth century: Rudolf Virchow; 32 National Socialism: Fritz Lenz's Die Familie im Dienst der Rassenhygiene; V Contemporary German (c.1945-c.2000); 33 The language of the GDR: Texts on the erection and fall of the Berlin Wall; 34 The public sphere: Discourse strategies and lexical development |
35 English influence: Jil Sander and the Verein Deutsche Sprache; 36 Newspapers: Language and text organization in the nineteenth century and twentieth century; 37 Jugendsprache: Katz und Goldt and chatrooms; Glossary; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Written in a lively and accessible style, the book looks at the history of German through a wide range of texts, from medical, legal and scientific writing to literature, everyday newspapers and adverts. |
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