Description
Book SynopsisThis collected volume deals with the tension between literary production and traditional language norms in the two Americas. The central question posed is that of whether and how literature assumes an initiating or even determining role in establishing pluricentric language norms. Overview accounts of the genesis of (literary) language norms in the various language areas (English, French, Portuguese, Spanish) are accompanied by portraits of particular writers, analysing their specific contribution to the questioning of exogenic norms and the strengthening of endogenic standards.
Table of ContentsVORWORT
I. ANGLOPHONES AMERIKA
Christian Mair: English in North America and the Caribbean
Holger Kersten: "I Know Grammar by Ear Only": Mark Twain and the Norms of American Literature
John Thieme: Derek Walcott
Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu: "How lovely it is, this thing we have done - together": Tradition and Innovation in Toni Morrison's Fiction
II. BRASILIEN
Christopher F. Laferl: Brasilien und die Norm
Joachim Born: Machado de Assis und die brasilianische Norm
Eduardo Passos: "Da língua viva": Mário de Andrade e a questão lingüística no modernismo brasileiro
Stefan Kutzenberger / Marcel Vejmelka: "...gostaria de ser considerado um reacionário da língua": João Gui-marães Rosa und die Revolutionierung der Sprache
III. FRANKOPHONES AMERIKA
Bernhard Pöll: Norme(s) linguistique(s) et langue d'écriture au Québec et dans les Caraïbes francophones
Ursula Reutner / Hanspeter Plocher: Thematik und Sprache des Landromans in Québec am Beispiel von Antoine Gérin-Lajoie und Félix-Antoine Savard
Roman Reisinger: Jacques Renaud: poète, romancier, essayiste
Falk Seiler: Literarisches Schreiben auf den Antillen im Spannungsfeld zwischen Französisch und Kreolisch: Patrick Chamoiseau
IV. HISPANOAMERIKA
Franz Lebsanft: Norma pluricéntrica del español y Academias de la Lengua
Peter Cichon: Domingo Faustino Sarmiento
Martha Guzmán: Andrés Bello y la norma del español (americano)
Markus Ebenhoch: Alejo Carpentier
V. KREOLOPHONIE
Eva-Martha Eckkrammer: Kreolophone Sprachgemein-schaften in Amerika und der beschwerliche Weg zur Norm
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