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Social Imagery in Middle Low German
This book offers the first systematic inventory of late medieval social imagery drawn from the entire surviving corpus of vernacular book production in the Middle Low German region prior to the Reformation.
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Linguistic Purism in the Germanic Languages
Purism is an aspect of linguistic study which appeals not only to the scholar but also to the layperson. Somehow, ordinary speakers with many different mother tongues and with no formal training in linguistics share certain beliefs about what language is, how it develops or should develop, whether it has good or bad qualities, etc. The topic of linguistic purism in its many realisations is the subject of this volume of 19 articles selected from the contributions presented at a conference at the University of Bristol in 2003. In particular, the articles deal with the relationship of purism to historical prescriptivism, e.g. the influence of grammarians in the 17th and 18th centuries, to nationhood, e.g. the instrumentalising of purism in the standardisation of Afrikaans or Luxembourgish, to modern society, e.g. the existence of puristic tendencies in computer chatrooms, to folk linguistics, e.g. lay perceptions of different varieties of English, and to academic linguistics, e.g. the presence of puristic notions in the historiography of German or English.
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Language Ideology and Language Change in Early Modern German
This quantitative study, based on a computerized corpus of texts written by five men in early 16th-century Nuremberg, employs multivariate GLM statistical procedures to analyze the way linguistic, social and stylistic factors work individually and in interaction to influence variation observed in the texts. Over 70,000 tokens of variable consonants sets were analyzed, using network analysis as an alternate approach to quantification of relevant social identities, which allowed focus on individual behavior without discarding the analysis of group behaviors. The study provides evidence that consonantal variation in early modern written texts is not random. To a surprising degree, it is possible to account for the structured heterogeneity in the writings studied by using methodologies established for spoken language in modern day communities. Like spoken languages, variation precedes change in the written language, and again like spoken language, not all variation is followed by change. That is, while variation cannot always be demonstrated to be structured, much of it is clearly and reliably attributable to the same complex of linguistic, social and stylistic factors which shape the structured heterogeneity of spoken languages of our own time. Of particular importance is the quantification of an individual's relationship to an emerging ideology of language standardization, and the way that relationship interacts with written language variation.
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Verbale Aggression : multidisziplinäre Zugänge zur verletzenden Macht der Sprache
\"Der Band präsentiert Beiträge aus unterschiedlichen sprachbezogenen Disziplinen, die einen umfassenden theoretischen Rahmen und Fallstudien zur verbalen Aggression in ihren vielfältigen Erscheinungsformen liefern. Sprachliche Aggressionsformen stellen nicht so sehr eine Verschiebung physischer Aggression dar, sondern sie sind Aggressionsakte sui generis, die vor allem durch ihre starke Symbolizität (gebrauchsgebundene Zeichenhaftigkeit) und Indexikalität (Hinweiskraft) wirken und treffen. Der Band besteht aus vier Hauptteilen, \"Zum Ausdruck verbaler Aggression\", \"Verbale Aggression in Praxisfeldern\", \"Hassrede und Ideologie\", \"Inszenierungen verbaler Aggression\", in denen nicht nur auf die handlungsleitende Dimension von verbalen Aggressionsakten ausführlich eingegangen wird, sondern auch die Gestaltung von aggressionsbezogenen kommunikativen und diskursiven Praktiken, ihre Gebundenheit an Medien sowie ihre breiten Wirkungsfelder (etwa in therapeutischen und didaktischen Prozessen) nachgezeichnet werden. Das Buch bietet fachlich fundierte Grundlagen und Perspektiven für Sprachwissenschaftler, Psychologen, Soziologen, Pädagogen, Medienwissenschaftler und Journalisten, die sich mit verbaler Aggression auseinandersetzen möchten\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Language Contact at the Romance-Germanic Language Border
The current volume brings together sociolinguistic analyses of language contact along the Romance Germanic Language Border, shedding more light on the variable and the universal elements in language contact and shift. It covers the whole range of the border, from French Flanders through South Tirol. Every part of it has been treated by outstanding experts. They describe the current state of the art in 'their' portion of the language border and include information on the legal and/or practical status of the language border and the status and function of all languages concerned. Attitudinal and language planning initiatives as well as the standardisation status of the regionally official and minority languages are discussed. Language borrowing, code switching and other language contact phenomena are analysed in detail.
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Past, Present and Future of a Language Border
This series creates a space for innovative scholarship examining the ways language functions as a powerful meaning-making resource for constructing identities, managing relationships and building communities. Grounded in new, data-driven methodologies, quantitative and qualitative, and engaging a diverse range of communicative and textual practices, the series embraces work from variationist sociolinguistics through to discourse studies, linguistic anthropology and social semiotics. Monographs and edited volumes are welcomed, as is any work that explicitly situates language in its political, economic and cultural contexts, and/or intersects with other modes of communication such as visual images, material culture, space/place, and nonverbal communication.
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