Patrick Stevenson (ed.)

The German Language and the Real World

Sociolinguistic, Cultural, and Pragmatic Perspectives on Contemporary German
Herausgeber: Stevenson, Patrick

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

' 'All in all, Stevenson has organized an interesting and useful volume for Germanophile sociolinguists and for those interested in a multidimensional real German.' Language Learning, 46:1, March 1996.

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Language has always been a major marker of cultural identity in the German-speaking world, and the reunification of Germany, with its dramatic political and cultural consequences, has led to an upsurge of interest in contemporary German. In this collection of essays, German linguists consider a wide range of topics, including language change, language in political discourse, language in Berlin after the wall, language and gender, the speech styles of youth subcultures, and language and television.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 428
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 646g
• ISBN-13: 9780198237389
• ISBN-10: 0198237383
• Artikelnr.: 22107095

Inhaltsangabe

The Study of Real Language: Observing the Observers
To What Extent is German an International Language?
Germanness: Language and Nation
Norms and Reforms
Directions of Change in Contemporary German
After the Wall: Social Change and Linguistic Variation in Berlin
Theories of Sociolinguistic Variation in the German Context
Language in Intercultural Communication
Critical Linguistics and the Study of Institutional Communication
Political Discourse: The Language of Right and Left in Germany
Evaluation of Language use in Public Discourse: Language Attitudes in Austria
Language and Gender
Jugendsprachen: Speech Styles of Youth Subcultures
Language and Television