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The Making of Bad Language: Lay Linguistic Stigmatisations in German--Past Und Present: 28 (Variolingua. Nonstandard - Standard - Substandard) - Softcover
Synopsis
This book is a contribution to the history of non-standard of bad German. The origin and development of standard German was a complex process and many factors were involved in the selection, non-selection and de-selection of variants, as well as the initial promotion of certain varieties of German to supraregional status. The interest here is in non-selection and de-selection of variants and so the study focuses especially on questions such as: Why were certain constructions ignored in the formation of standard German grammar and why were others explicitly judged ill-suited for inclusion in the prestige variety? Who was responsible for these stigmatisations and what reasons were given? And finally, how was the knowledge that one shouldn't use particular constructions transmitted to the language users? At the heart of this study are case studies of 11 morphosyntactic features of bad German as found in a selection of texts produced by norm makers, from 1600 to 2005, all of them salient Zweifelsfalle of modern German.
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Review
-Davies' und Langers Blick hinter die Kulissen von 400 Jahren Normierungsarbeit, die von der Stigmatisierung und der Aufwertung sprachlicher Erscheinungsformen bestimmt war, gibt ein eindruckliches Bild von den Prozessen, die zur Akzeptanz oder Ablehnung bestimmter Formen gefuhrt haben. Die interessante Fragestellung der Studie wird auf der Grundlage seiner sehr breiten Materialbasis uberaus ergiebig bearbeitet.- (Robert Langhanke, ZRS)"
Davies' und Langers Blick hinter die Kulissen von 400 Jahren Normierungsarbeit, die von der Stigmatisierung und der Aufwertung sprachlicher Erscheinungsformen bestimmt war, gibt ein eindruckliches Bild von den Prozessen, die zur Akzeptanz oder Ablehnung bestimmter Formen gefuhrt haben. Die interessante Fragestellung der Studie wird auf der Grundlage seiner sehr breiten Materialbasis uberaus ergiebig bearbeitet. (Robert Langhanke, ZRS)
About the Author
Nils Langer obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Newcastle and has since worked at the University of Bristol where he is a Reader in German Linguistics. His work focuses on areas of historical sociolinguistics, in particular with regard to the standardisation of German and the stigmatisation of non-standard variants.
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- PublisherPeter Lang Publishing
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 0820498424
- ISBN 13 9780820498423
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages344
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