Germanic language histories 'from below' (1700-2000) / / edited by Stephan Elspass [and four others]

• Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; New York : , : Walter de Gruyter, , [2007]; ©2007
• Edizione: Reprint 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (530 pages) : illustrations, maps (some color)
• Disciplina: 430.9
• Soggetto topico: Germanic languages - History; Germanic languages - Variation; Germanic languages - Standardization - History; Germanic languages - Standardization - Political aspects
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: ElspassStephan
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Introduction -- A twofold view 'from below': New perspectives on language histories and language historiographies / ELSPASS, STEPHAN -- 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 / DOSSENA, MARINA -- 'Lower-order' letters, schooling and the English language, 1795 to 1834 / FAIRMAN, TONY -- "Doch mein Mann möchte doch mal wissen ..." A discourse analysis of 19th-century emigrant men and women's private correspondence / MCLELLAND, NICOLA -- Remnants of Western Yiddish in East Frisia / REERSHEMIUS, GERTRUD -- Eighteenth-century linguistic variation from the perspective of a Dutch diary and a collection of private letters / van der Wal, Marijke -- 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 / BEAL, JOAN C. / CORRIGAN, KAREN P. -- Syntactic surprises in some English letters: the underlying progress of the language / DENISON, DAVID -- YOU and THOU in Early Modern English: cross-linguistic perspectives / DURY, RICHARD -- On the history of verbal present participle converbs in English and Norwegian and the concept of 'change from below' / KILLIE, KRISTIN -- The grammaticalization of geben 'to give' in German and Luxembourgish / LENZ, ALEXANDRA -- A corpus-based study of modern colloquial 'Flemish' / PLEVOETS, KOEN / SPEELMAN, DIRK / GEERAERTS, DIRK -- 'Tussentaal' as a source of change from below in Belgian Dutch. A case study of substandardization processes in the chat language of Flemish teenagers / VANDEKERCKHOVE, REINHILD -- III. Language norms and standardization in a view form below -- Surinamese Dutch: The development of a unique Germanic Language variety / KLEINE, CHRISTA DE -- "Zoo schrijve ek lievers my sort Afrikaans" - Speaker agency, identity, and resistance in the history of Afrikaans / DEUMERT, ANA -- "Deutsch ist eine würde-lose Sprache". On the history of a failed prescription / DURRELL, MARTIN -- To boldly split the infinitive - or not? Prescriptive traditions and current English usage / FISCHER, ROSWITHA -- Norm consciousness and corpus constitution in the study of Earlier Modern Germanic Languages / POUNDER, AMANDA -- Variability and professionalism as prerequisites of standardization / VOESTE, ANJA -- Putting standard German to the test: some notes on the linguistic competence of grammarschool students and teachers in the nineteenth century / ZIEGLER, EVELYN -- IV. Language choice and language planning -- The choice between German and French for the German nobility of the late 18th century / ARZBERGER, STEFFEN -- Flirting at the fringe - The status of the German varieties as perceived by language activists in Belgium's Areler Land / DARQUENNES, JEROEN -- Language and Luxembourgish national identity: ideologies of hybridity and purity in the past and present / HORNER, KRISTINE -- The planning of modern Norwegian as a sociolinguistic experiment - 'from below' / JAHR, ERNST HÅKON -- The death of Standard German in 19th-century Budapest. A case study on the role of linguistic ideologies in language shift / MAITZ, PÉTER -- 1750-1850: The disappearance of German from Bergen, Norway / NESSE, AGNETE -- Societal multilingualism and language conflicts in Galicia in the 19th century / PTASHNYK, STEFANIYA -- New data on language policy and language choice in 19th-century Flemish city administrations / VANHECKE, ELINE / DE GROOF, JETJE -- V. Reflections on alternative language histories -- Communicative genres as categories in a socio-cultural history of communication / LINKE, ANGELIKA -- Deconstructing episodes in the 'history of English' / WATTS, RICHARD J. -- Index
• Titolo autorizzato: Germanic language histories 'from below' (1700-2000)
• ISBN: 3-11-092546-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910464231103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studia linguistica Germanica ; ; 86.