The volume making available papers given at the conference held at the
IGRS in March 2006 is now available from Narr Verlag (http://www.narr.de/)
Standard, Variation und Sprachwandel in germanischen Sprachen / Standard,
Variation and Language Change in Germanic Languages
Edited by Christian Fandrych and Reinier Salverda
Studien zur deutschen Sprache, vol. 41
304 pp
Tübingen: Narr, 2007
ISBN: 978-3-8233-6336-1
Price: 72,00 EUR
This volume focuses on the ways in which language change, language
variation and language contact transform some of the major Germanic
languages, as well as the ways in which the relationship between standard
and varieties is (re-)conceptualised. How do processes of language contact
affect the Germanic languages today? What impact does language contact
have on their standard forms? What new varieties of language are emerging
in the process? How do linguistic plurality and difference recur as themes
in public discourse and language policy on the one hand, and in narratives
and everyday conversations of various social groups on the other? What
kind of linguistic ideologies emerge, and how are they shaped by the
media? How do these processes affect political decision making and
linguistic codification?
With contributions by: Christian Fandrych & Reinier Salverda, Wim
Vandenbussche, Martin Durrell, Andrew Linn & Leigh Oakes, Jenny Carl &
Patrick Stevenson, Jannis Androutsopoulos, Inken Keim & Ralf Knöbl,
Stephan Elspaß, Nils Langer, Gertrud Reershemius, Roland Willemyns, Frans
Hinskens.
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