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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816542003321

Titolo

Past, present and future of a language border : Germanic-Romance encounters in the low countries / / edited by Catharina Peersman, Gijsbert Rutten, Rik Vosters

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-5015-0106-2

1-61451-415-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (332 p.)

Collana

Language and Social Life, , 2364-4303 ; ; Volume 1

Classificazione

ID 2415

Disciplina

306.44/09492

Soggetti

Languages in contact - Europe

Romance languages - Social aspects

Germanic languages - Social aspects

Sociolinguistics - Europe

Historical linguistics - Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Author information -- Chapter 1. Romance-Germanic encounters along the language border: past, present and future / Peersman, Catharina / Rutten, Gijsbert / Vosters, Rik -- Part I: Theoretical and historical overview -- Chapter 2. The dimensions of language conflict: an exploration / Darquennes, Jeroen -- Chapter 3. Trilingual tug-o'-war: language border fluctuations in the Low Countries / Willemyns, Roland -- Chapter 4. Standard language ideology and the history of Romance-Germanic encounters / Vogl, Ulrike -- Part II: The Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period -- Chapter 5. Constructing identity: language and identity in the narration of the Franco-Flemish conflict (1297-1305) / Peersman, Catharina -- Chapter 6. Multilingualism and the challenge of frenchification in the early modern Dutch Republic / Frijhoff, Willem -- Part III: The 18th and 19th centuries -- Chapter 7. Frenchification in discourse and practice: loan morphology in Dutch private letters of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Rutten, Gijsbert / Vosters, Rik / Wal, Marijke van



der -- Chapter 8. The use of languages in Maastricht in the nineteenth century: the press and family archives / Heijde, M. C. A. Kessels-van der -- Part IV: The 20th and 21st centuries -- Chapter 9. Language conflict in the educational realm: Eupen-Malmedy in the interbellum period (1920-1940) / Boemer, Magali / Darquennes, Jeroen -- Chapter 10. Multilingual education and the politics of language in Luxembourg / Horner, Kristine / Weber, Jean-Jacques -- Chapter 11. In contact and/or in conflict? Ethno-cultural markers, language and schooling in post-war Brussels / Janssens, Rudi / Vaesen, Joost -- Epilogue -- Chapter 12. Conceptualising "language borders", "language contact" and "language conflict" / Watts, Richard J. -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume revisits the issue of language contact and conflict in the Low Countries across space and time. The contributions deal with important sites of Germanic-Romance contact along the different language borders, covering languages such as French, Dutch, German, and Luxembourgish. This first monograph in English on the topic broadens our understanding of current-day issues by integrating a historical perspective, showing how language contact and conflict operated from the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, the 18th and 19th centuries, and into the 20th and 21st centuries.