{"product_id":"invisibilising-austrian-german-on-the-effect-of-linguistic-prescriptions-and-educational-reforms-on-writing-practices-in-18th-century-austria-9783110546293","title":"Invisibilising Austrian German: On the effect of linguistic prescriptions and educational reforms on writing practices in 18th-century Austria","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book provides an insight into the standardisation process of German in eighteenth-century Austria. It describes how norms prescribed by grammarians were actually implemented via a school reform carried out by educationalist Johann Ignaz Felbiger on the order of Empress Maria Theresa. Quantitative and qualitative analyses were undertaken of certain Upper German features (e-apocope, the absence of the prefix ge- and the ending -t in past participles, and variants of the verb form sind) in reading primers, issues of the Wienerisches Diarium \/ Wiener Zeitung and petitionary letters. These reveal how such variants became increasingly 'invisible' in writing. This process of 'invisibilisation', i.e. a process of stigmatization which prevents the use of certain varieties and variants in writing, can be attributed to a number of factors: Empress Maria Theresa's appeal for a language reform, the normative work by eighteenth-century grammarians, the implementation of educational reforms, and the early introduction of East Central German variants in newspaper issues. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53516559253847,"sku":"9783110546293","price":103.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/invisibilising-austrian-german-on-the-effect-of-linguistic-prescriptions-and-educational-reforms-on-writing-practices-in-18th-century-austria-9783110546293","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}