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Record Nr.

UNINA9910957723003321

Autore

Lippi-Green Rosina

Titolo

Language ideology and language change in early modern German : a sociolinguistic study of the consonantal system of Nuremberg / / Rosina Lippi-Green

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c1994

ISBN

1-283-31284-0

9786613312846

90-272-7670-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (164 p.)

Collana

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series IV, Current issues in linguistic theory, , 0304-0763 ; ; v. 119

Disciplina

437/.324

Soggetti

German language - Dialects - Germany - Nuremberg

German language - Early modern, 1500-1700 - Consonants

German language - Early modern, 1500-1700 - Variation

German language - Early modern, 1500-1700 - Social aspects - Germany - Nuremberg

Linguistic change

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-147) and index.

Nota di contenuto

LANGUAGE IDEOLOGY AND LANGUAGE CHANGE IN EARLY MODERN GERMAN; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; PREFACE; Table of contents; LIST OF TABLES; LIST OF FIGURES; CHAPTER 1. LANGUAGE STANDARDIZATIONIN IDEOLOGICAL CONTEXT; CHAPTER 2.  NUREMBERG AND ITS LANGUAGE; CHAPTER 3. THE DISTRIBUTION OF VARIABLE CONSONANT SETS; CHAPTER 4. SOCIAL IDENTITY, STYLISTIC FACTORSAND ORTHOGRAPHIC CONGRUITY; CHAPTER 5. STATISTICAL MODELS OF NUREMBERG'SCONSONANTAL VARIATION; CONCLUSIONS; APPENDIX A DEMOGRAPHIC DATA; APPENDIX B CODING GUIDELINES; APPENDIX C PRIMARY SOURCE LIST; APPENDIX D DATA

REFERENCESINDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This quantitative study, based on a computerized corpus of texts written by five men in early 16th-century Nuremberg, employs multivariate GLM statistical procedures to analyze the way linguistic,



social and stylistic factors work individually and in interaction to influence variation observed in the texts. Over 70,000 tokens of variable consonants sets were analyzed, using network analysis as an alternate approach to quantification of relevant social identities, which allowed focus on individual behavior without discarding the analysis of group behaviors.The study provides evidence that conso