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Linguistic Diversity in Europe
This book, which emerges in the context of the European research network LINEE (Languages in a Network of European Excellence), is concerned with European multilingualism both as a political concept and as a social reality. It features cutting-edge studies by linguists and anthropologists who perceive multilingualism as a discursive phenomenon which can be revealed and analyzed through empirical fieldwork. The book presents a fresh perspective of European multilingualism as it takes the reader through key themes of social consciousness – identity, policy, education, economy – and relevant societal levels of organization (European, national, regional).
With its distinct focus on post-national society caught in unifying as well as diversifying socio-political currents, the volume problematizes emerging contradictions inherent in the idea of a Europe beyond the nation state –between speech minorities and majorities, economic realities, or socio-political ideologies.
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The diffusion of /l/-vocalization in Swiss German
Several western Swiss German dialects roughly grouped around the nation's capital Bern show /l/ > [u] vocalization in various contexts. The spatial boundaries of /l/-vocalization in Swiss German are suspected to have been expanding since being described in the Linguistic Atlas of German-Speaking Switzerland in the middle of the 20th century. The present study assesses the overall expansion of /l/-vocalization by means of a rapid anonymous survey in 20 urban regional centers situated just beyond the traditional boundaries of /l/-vocalization highlighted by the Atlas. Results show that the expansion of /l/-vocalization mainly progresses in southeasterly, southerly, and westerly directions, but with much less success to the north and northwest, where the equally influential dialectal areas of Basel and Zürich seem to exert opposing influences. Further analysis of the data indicates that somewhat differing constraint hierarchies are at work in the different places to which vocalization has diffused.
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Communication and City
Commentary is provided on the four companion vols of Kommunikation in der Stadt ([Communication in the City] Debus, Friedhelm, Kallmeyer, Werner, & Stickel, Gerhard [Eds], Berlin: De Gruyter, 1994/95): (1) Exemplarische Analysen des Sprachverhaltens in Mannheim ([Exemplary Analyses of Language Behavior in Mannheim] Kallmeyer, Werner [Ed], 1994); (2) Ethnographien von Mannheimer Stadtteilen ([Ethnographies of Districts of Mannheim] Kallmeyer, Werner [Ed], 1995); (3) Inken Keim's Kommunikative Stilistik einer sozialen Welt \"kleiner Leute\" in der Mannheimer Innenstadt. ([The Communicative Stylistics of a Social World of \"Little People\" in the Inner City of Mannheim] 1995); & (4) Johannes Schwitalla's Kommunikative Stilistik zweier sozialer Welten in Mannheim-Vogelstang ([The Communicative Stylistics of Two Social Worlds in Vogelstang, Mannheim] 1995). The social groups & urban districts to which the Mannheim German Language Institute project on urban communication has been effectively reduced are presented in 10 sociolinguistic studies in (1), which introduces the concept of communicative social style & applies it to the analysis of \"key situations.\" Contents of these studies & (2-4) are summarized, & the total work is judged to be the most comprehensive study yet published of German-language urban communication; it is distinguished from other studies by its strict ethnographic basis, analytical subtlety, & wealth of participant observation data. 13 References. J. Hitchcock
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The \Logic\ of Ritual Communication
Three defining criteria of rituals are: institutionalization, symbolic nature, & the fact that they are actions. The two former aspects are analyzed here, specifically, the organization of only partially prestructured rituals, & the disclosure of the meaning of a ritual in interaction. These are examined in two types of situation, using transcripts of tape-recorded interactions that took place in German-speaking Switzerland in the early 1980s: (1) the preaching in an Evangelical-Reformist church service; & (2) conversations between MD & patient in a hospital. 1 Figure, 19 References. Modified HA
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