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(0)Nils Langer
Publisher
De Gruyter Open Poland
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Historical sociolinguistics has now established itself as a separate independent field of linguistic inquiry, and the impact of its theoretical and empirical advances are reflected in a thriving body of publications of various types. This volume adds to this flourishing array by presenting nine original studies by highly accomplished scholars holding a prominent reputation in the field. The overarching objective of the volume is to call attention...
Publisher
Multilingual Matters
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
This book addresses the question of agency in the revitalisation of minoritized languages in Europe. The chapters investigate how grassroots actors shape revitalisation, and how individuals and groups negotiate historical factors, motivations, and institutionalised initiatives and policies in a variety of efforts.
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Diskurse, die in der nichtlinguistischen Welt über Sprache geführt werden, sind typischerweise Sprachverfallsdiskurse - gleich, ob es um Neue Medien, Anglizismen, Orthographie oder Schülerleistungen geht. Linguistische Laien neigen dazu, Sprache als etwas Homogenes, Monolithisches, das stabilen Normen unterliegt, zu sehen. Variation und Sprachwandel werden, so sie denn zur Kenntnis genommen werden, vielfach als Bedrohung wahrgenommen; häufig werden...
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
This volume contains 25 articles covering a wide array of subjects, reflecting the breadth of scholarship of one of today's leading experts in the field of Frisian Studies. The articles, written mostly in English and German, encompass a temporal range from Old Frisian to Modern Frisian and a geographical range from West Frisian in the Netherlands to Sater and North Frisian in Germany, and include Low German. Some articles initiate new fields of enquiry,...