Landmarks in the history of the German language / Geraldine Horan, Nils Langer and Sheila Watts, editors

Published:: Bern ; New York : Peter Lang, [2009]
Copyright Date:: ©2009
Physical Description:: vi, 312 pages ; 23 cm.
Additional Creators:: Horan, Geraldine, Langer, Nils, 1969-, and Watts, Sheila

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Series:

Britische und Irische Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur ; no. 52.

Contents:

Introduction / Geraldine Horan, Nils Langer, Sheila Watts -- A landmark figure in the history of German? Charlemagne, language and literacy / Rosamond McKitterick -- Luther and Tyndale as Bible translators : achievement and legacy / John L. Flood -- Understanding German grammar takes centuries-- / Nicola McLelland -- Dictionaries and their role in the formation of German (1500-1900) / William Jervis Jones -- Texts and text types in the history of German / Maria B. Lange -- Linguistic purism in the history of German / Falco Pfalzgraf -- Deutsch : Teutons, Germans or Dutch? the problems of defining a nation / Martin Durrell -- Standard German in the nineteenth century / Winifred V. Davies -- Sociolinguistic changes in the history of low German / Nils Langer -- Gendered and political discourses : women in national socialism / Geraldine Horan -- Language in limbo? post-1945 German / C.J. Wells.

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ISBN:

9783039118908 (alk. paper)
3039118900 (alk. paper)

Note:

Some essays were originally delivered as lectures at the University of Cambridge.

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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