{"product_id":"germanic-language-histories-from-below-1700-2000-9783110193350","title":"Germanic Language Histories 'from Below' (1700-2000)","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFocusing on the sociolinguistic history of Germanic languages, the current volume challenges the traditional teleological approach of language historiography. The 30 contributions present alternative histories of ten `big’ as well as `small’ Germanic languages and varieties in the last 300 years. Topics covered in this book include language variation and change and the politics of language contact and choice, seen against the background of standardization processes of written and oral text genres and from the viewpoint of larger sections of the population.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Insgesamt handelt es sich um ein sehr detailreiches Buch, das dem an variationslinguistischen Fragestellungen interessierten Leser Einblicke in die historische Soziolinguistik und historische Pragmatik bietet und zahlreiche Forschungsperspektiven aufzeigt.\"Verena Teschke in: Zeitschrift fur Dialektologie und Linguistik 2\/2009 \"There is much to admire about this book. The breadth of languages discussed is impressive, as is the use of sources of data that have been neglected in more traditional approaches to historical linguistics.\"Marc Pierce in: Linguist List 19.2184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eStephan Elspaß: \u003c\/em\u003eA twofold view ‘from below’: New perspectives on language histories and historical grammar;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e I. Language variation in letters, diaries and other text sources from below\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMarina Dossena:\u003c\/em\u003e “As this leaves me at present” – Formulaic usage, politeness and social proximity in nineteenth-century Scottish emigrants’ letters; \u003cem\u003eTony Fairman: \u003c\/em\u003e‘Lower-order’ letters, schooling and the English language, 1795 to 1834; \u003cem\u003eNicola McLelland:\u003c\/em\u003e “Doch mein Mann möchte doch mal wissen ...” A discourse analysis of 19th-century emigrant men and women’s private correspondence; \u003cem\u003eGertrud Reershemius: \u003c\/em\u003eRemnants of Western Yiddish in East Frisia;\u003cem\u003e Marijke van der Wal: \u003c\/em\u003eEighteenth-century linguistic variation from the perspective of a Dutch diary and a collection of private letters; \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eII. From past to present: Change from above - change from below\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eJoan C. Beal\/Karen P. Corrigan:\u003c\/em\u003e ‘Time and Tyne’: a corpus-based study of variation and change in relativization strategies in Tyneside English; \u003cem\u003eDavid Denison: \u003c\/em\u003eSyntactic surprises in some English letters: the underlying progress of the language; \u003cem\u003eRichard Dury:\u003c\/em\u003e YOU and THOU in Early Modern English: cross-linguistic perspectives; \u003cem\u003eKirstin Killie:\u003c\/em\u003e On the history of verbal present participle converbs in English and Norwegian and the concept of ‘change from below’; \u003cem\u003eAlexandra Lenz: \u003c\/em\u003eThe grammaticalization of geben ‘to give’ in German and Luxembourgish; \u003cem\u003eKoen Plevoets\/Dirk Speelman\/Dirk Geeraerts:\u003c\/em\u003e A corpus-based study of colloquial ‘Flemish’; \u003cem\u003eReinhild Vandekerckhove:\u003c\/em\u003e ‘Tussentaal’ as a source of change from below in Belgian Dutch. A case study of substandardization processes in the chat language of Flemish teenagers;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIII. Language norms and standardization in a view from below\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eChrista de Kleine: \u003c\/em\u003eSurinamese Dutch: The Development of a Unique Germanic Language Variety; \u003cem\u003eAna Deumert:\u003c\/em\u003e “Zoo schrijve ek lievers my sort Afrikaans”. Speaker agency, identity and resistance in the history of Afrikaans; \u003cem\u003eMartin Durrell:\u003c\/em\u003e “Deutsch ist eine \u003cem\u003ewürde\u003c\/em\u003e-lose Sprache”. On the history of a failed prescription; \u003cem\u003eRoswitha Fischer: \u003c\/em\u003eTo boldly split the infinitive – or not? Prescriptive traditions and current English usage;\u003cem\u003e Amanda Pounder: \u003c\/em\u003eNorm consciousness and corpus constitution in the study of Earlier Modern Germanic languages; \u003cem\u003eAnja Voeste:\u003c\/em\u003e Variability and professionalism as prerequisites of standardization; \u003cem\u003eEvelyn Ziegler: \u003c\/em\u003ePutting standard German to the test: Some notes on the linguistic competence of grammar-school students and teachers in the nineteenth century;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIV. Language choice and language planning\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSteffen Arzberger: \u003c\/em\u003eThe choice between the German or French language for the German nobility of the late 18th Century;\u003cem\u003e Jeroen Darquennes: \u003c\/em\u003eFlirting at the fringe - The status of the German varieties as perceived by language activists in Belgium’s Areler Land; \u003cem\u003eKristine Horner: \u003c\/em\u003eLanguage and Luxembourgish national identity: ideologies of hybridity and purity in the past and present; \u003cem\u003eErnst Håkon Jahr: \u003c\/em\u003eThe planning of modern Norwegian as a sociolinguistic experiment – ‘from below’;\u003cem\u003e Péter Maitz: \u003c\/em\u003eThe death of Standard German in 19th century Budapest. A case study on the role of linguistic ideologies in language shift;\u003cem\u003e Agnete Nesse: \u003c\/em\u003e1750-1850: The disappearance of German from Bergen, Norway; \u003cem\u003eStefaniya Ptashnyk:\u003c\/em\u003e Societal multilingualism and language conflicts in Galicia in the 19th century; \u003cem\u003eEline Vanhecke\/Jetje De Groof: \u003c\/em\u003eNew data on language policy and language choice in 19th-century Flemish city administrations;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eV. Reflections on alternative language histories\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAngelika Linke: \u003c\/em\u003eCommunicative genres as categories of a cultural history of communication; \u003cem\u003eRichard J. Watts: \u003c\/em\u003eDeconstructing episodes in the ‘history of English’\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53516391383383,"sku":"9783110193350","price":129.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783110193350.jpg?v=1782127244","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/germanic-language-histories-from-below-1700-2000-9783110193350","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}