The German Language In A Changing Europe

Author : Michael G. Clyne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1995-11-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521499704

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The German Language in a Changing Europe by Michael G. Clyne Pdf

Recent sociopolitical events have profoundly changed the status and functions of German and influenced its usage. In this study (published by Cambridge in 1984) Michael Clyne revises and expands his original analysis of the German language in Language and Society in the German-speaking Countries in the light of such changes as the end of the Cold War, German unification, the redrawing of the map of Europe, increasing European integration, and the changing self-images of Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg. His discussion includes the differences in the form, function and status of the various national varieties of German; the relation between standard and non-standard varieties; gender, generational and political variation; Anglo-American influence on German; and the convergence of east and west. The result is a wide-ranging exploration of language and society in the German-speaking countries, all of which have problems or dilemmas concerning nationhood or ethnicity which are language-related and/or language-marked.

Author : Michael Clyne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1995-11-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 052146269X

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The German Language in a Changing Europe by Michael Clyne Pdf

Recent sociopolitical events have profoundly changed the status and functions of German and influenced its usage. In this textbook Michael Clyne revises and expands his original analysis of the German language in Language and Society in the German-Speaking Countries (CUP, 1984) in the light of such changes as the end of the Cold War, German unification, increasing European integration, and the changing self-images of Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg. His wide-ranging exploration shows that the German-speaking countries all have problems or dilemmas concerning nationhood or ethnicity that are language-related and/or language-marked.

Author : British Association for Applied Linguistics. Meeting
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1853593001

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Language in a Changing Europe by British Association for Applied Linguistics. Meeting Pdf

This volume contains papers presented at the Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics held at the University of Salford, in September 1993. They illustrate the breadth and diversity of research in the field.

Author : Patrick Stevenson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748635993

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Language and Social Change in Central Europe by Patrick Stevenson Pdf

This book explores the dynamics of language and social change in central Europe in the context of the end of the Cold War and eastern expansion of the European Union. One outcome of the profound social transformations in central Europe since the Second World War has been the reshaping of the relationship between particular languages and linguistic varieties, especially between 'national' languages and regional or ethnic minority languages. Previous studies have investigated these transformed relationships from the macro perspective of language policies, while others have taken more fine-grained approaches to individual experiences with language. Combining these two perspectives for the first time--and focusing on the German language, which has a uniquely complex and problematic history in the region--the authors offer an understanding of the complex constellation of language politics in central Europe. Stevenson and Carl's analysis draws on a range of theoretical, conceptual and analytical approaches - language ideologies, language policy, positioning theory, discourse analysis, narrative analysis and life histories - and a wide range of data sources, from European and national language policies to individual language biographies. The authors demonstrate how the relationship between German and other languages has played a crucial role in the politics of language and processes of identity formation in the recent history of central Europe.

Author : Bernd Heine,Tania Kuteva
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191538117

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The Changing Languages of Europe by Bernd Heine,Tania Kuteva Pdf

The languages and dialects of Europe, this book shows, are becoming increasingly alike. Furthermore this unifying process goes at least as far back as the Roman empire, is accelerating, and affects every one of Europe's 150 or so languages including those of different families such as Basque and Finnish. The changes are by no means restricted to lexical borrowing but involve every grammatical aspect of the language. They are usually so minute that neither native speakers nor trained linguists notice them. But they accumulate and give rise to new grammatical structures that lead in turn to new patterns of areal relationship. Professor Heine and Professor Kuteva look for the causes of linguistic change in cultural and economic exchanges across national and regional boundaries and in the processes that occur when speakers learn or are in close contact with another language. Testing their data and conclusions against findings from elsewhere in the world, the authors reconstruct and reveal when, how, and why common grammatical structures have evolved and continue to evolve in processes of change that will, they argue, transform the linguistic landscape of Europe. The book is written in clear, non-technical language. It will appeal to scholars and students of language change and variation in Europe and elsewhere. It will also interest everyone concerned to understand the nature of language and language change.

Author : Patrick Stevenson,Kristine Horner,Nils Langer,Gertrud Reershemius
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781317511748

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The German-Speaking World by Patrick Stevenson,Kristine Horner,Nils Langer,Gertrud Reershemius Pdf

The German-Speaking World is an accessible textbook that offers students the opportunity to explore for themselves a wide range of sociolinguistic issues relating to the German language and its role in the world. This new, second edition has been fully revised to reflect the many political and social changes of the last 20 years including the impact of technology on language change. It continues to combine text with practical exercises and discussion questions to stimulate readers to think for themselves and to tackle specific problems. Key features of this book: Informative and comprehensive: covers a wide range of current issues Practical: contains a variety of graded exercises and tasks plus an index of terms Topical and contemporary: deals with current situations and provides up-to-date illustrative material Thought-provoking: encourages students to reflect and research for themselves The German-Speaking World is the ideal textbook for undergraduate students who have a sound practical knowledge of German but who have little or no knowledge of linguistics or sociolinguistics.

Author : J. Carl,P. Stevenson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230241664

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Language, Discourse and Identity in Central Europe by J. Carl,P. Stevenson Pdf

Central Europe has always been a highly multilingual region but how has this been affected by the social and political transformations of the last 20 years? The German language in particular has long played a key role in processes of identification here: but what role is the relationship between German and other languages playing today in the reshaping of societies and communities in this rapidly changing region? How is this relationship articulated in discourses on language and language ideologies? How is it manifested in individual repertoires and social practices? How is it determined by social and cultural policies? How is it exploited in the construction of European identities? These are just some of the questions addressed in this book, in which individual studies explore language practices in the multilingual contact zones of central Europe and the impact of both past and present migrations. Analysing a wide range of sources from media texts to language biographies and from business meetings to salsa classes, the authors demonstrate the local effects of global processes and some of the many ways in which language figures in contemporary social change.

Author : William Walker Chambers,John Ritchie Wilkie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317918523

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A Short History of the German Language (RLE Linguistics E: Indo-European Linguistics) by William Walker Chambers,John Ritchie Wilkie Pdf

This simple introduction to the history of the German language seeks to provide students who have some knowledge of modern German, but no knowledge either of its development or of linguistic theories, with a short account of the essential factors – chronological, geographical and linguistic – and their interrelation. The material is arranged in three parts. The first traces the history of the German language from its origins in Indo-European through the pre-documentary Germanic period and the Middle Ages to the present day. In the second part the development of the German vocabulary is described, including word formation, borrowing, and change in meaning; and the book concludes with a section on changes in sounds, grammatical forms, and syntax. Emphasis is placed on the development of the standard literary language in its historical and social context, while such topics as dialects and the relationship of German to other Germanic and European languages are treated very briefly as the need arises. The inclusion of maps, some specimen passages of German its early stages, suggestions for further reading after each chapter, and an extensive classified bibliography also contribute to making this a useful introduction to the subject and a reliable foundation for more advanced work.

Author : N. Armstrong,T. Pooley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230281714

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Social and Linguistic Change in European French by N. Armstrong,T. Pooley Pdf

An in depth examination of linguistic variation and change as a reflection of social convergence in the major French-speaking countries of Europe - France, Belgium and Switzerland. Considered in the context of linguistic levelling the book provides a detailed account of recent social and linguistic change in European French.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Europe
ISBN : PSU:000017422765

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Business Opportunities in a Changing Europe by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations Pdf

Author : Ruth Sanders
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199750653

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German by Ruth Sanders Pdf

Thousands of years ago, seafront clans in Denmark began speaking the earliest form of Germanic language--the first of six "signal events" that Ruth Sanders highlights in this marvelous history of the German language. Blending linguistic, anthropological, and historical research, Sanders presents a brilliant biography of the language as it evolved across the millennia. She sheds light on the influence of such events as the bloody three-day Battle of Kalkriese, which permanently halted the incursion of both the Romans and the Latin language into northern Europe, and the publication of Martin Luther's German Bible translation, a "People's" Bible which in effect forged from a dozen spoken dialects a single German language. The narrative ranges through the turbulent Middle Ages, the spread of the printing press, the formation of the nineteenth-century German Empire which united the German-speaking territories north of the Alps, and Germany's twentieth-century military and cultural horrors. The book also covers topics such as the Gothic language (now extinct), the vast expansion of Germanic tribes during the Roman era, the role of the Vikings in spreading the Norse language, the branching off of Yiddish, the lasting impact of the Thirty Years War on the German psyche, the revolution of 1848, and much more. Ranging from prehistoric times to modern, post-war Germany, this engaging volume offers a fascinating account of the evolution of a major European language as well as a unique look at the history of the German people. It will appeal to everyone interested in German language, culture, or history.

Author : Ruth H. Sanders,Ruth Sanders
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-21
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780195388459

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German by Ruth H. Sanders,Ruth Sanders Pdf

Blending linguistic, anthropological, and historical research, Sanders presents a brilliant biography of the German language as it evolved across the millennia. --from publisher description

Author : Michael G. Clyne,Sandra Kipp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015058828560

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Tiles in a Multilingual Mosaic by Michael G. Clyne,Sandra Kipp Pdf

Human history has been characterised by the movement of peoples from one part of the world to another. The current tendency towards globalisation has accentuated this movement. While the proliferation of economic ties and the speed of travel and communication have made the world a much smaller place, any particular location within the world is now faced with an increasing degree of contact between cultures and languages. Migrating people bring with them languages in various stages of planning, with differing status and with differing relationships to their personal and group identity. The present study explores the ways in which three immigrant communities have adjusted and adapted to a new setting in Australia , and the ways in which the host community has contributed to this process. It focuses specifically on the ways in which patterns of language use contribute to the maintenance of a pre-migration identity and/or the negotiation of a new one. The languages chosen for this research are Macedonian, Filipino/Tagalog and Somali.

Author : Thomas Gloning,Christopher Young
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004-03
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781134671908

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A History of the German Language Through Texts by Thomas Gloning,Christopher Young Pdf

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.

Author : Heather Merle Benbow,Jane Warren
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443811651

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Multilingual Europe by Heather Merle Benbow,Jane Warren Pdf

As Europe continues to expand and integrate through the European Union, it faces the challenge of ever increasing multilingual and multicultural contact, within and across its borders. This volume presents recent research on European language policy, language contact and multiculturalism that explores how Europe is meeting this challenge. Inspired by intersections and conflicts in language and cultural identity in Europe, the volume transcends disciplinary boundaries by enhancing sociolinguistic research with chapters on cultural identity and language in contemporary European cinema. The book considers the relationships between language and cultural identity in Europe at a time of increasing multicultural complexity, with contributions on Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Ukraine, and the linguistic and imaginative spaces between and beyond. The volume highlights the ongoing significance of language and identity for an expanding Europe, and the ways in which situations of linguistic hybridity, interlocution and language contact continue to define Europe and its others.