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Grammar Between Norm and Variation
The articles collected in this volume offer the most various access to the discussed questions on norm and variation. In their entirety, they reflect the current discussion of the topic. Focusing on the object languages German and English ensures a high level of topical consistency. On the other hand, the four large topic areas (emergence and change of norms and grammatical constructions; relationship of codes of norms and 'real' language usage; competition of standard and non-standard language norms; and subsistent norms of minority languages and «institutionalised second-language varieties») cover a large range of relevant issues, thereby certainly giving an impetus to new and further investigations.
Shared Languages, Shared Identities, Shared Stories
This book explores how 15 immigrants from German-speaking Switzerland in Australia make sense of their migratory experience, of building a new life in a different language. It does so by examining their written and oral life stories. The analysis takes two complementary perspectives: Firstly, the construction of language identities is studied through the language practices and attitudes discussed and displayed by the participants. Secondly, the ways in which they create coherence in their life stories focuses on autobiographical identities where language is a medium of sense-making across their life course. The combined perspectives highlight the diversity among the participants and the complexities of language and identity construction in the context of migration.
Diversity and Changing Values in Address
Different national varieties of Spanish, for instance Argentinian, Colombian and Mexican, use different address systems, with different numbers of pronouns, and also give pronouns a different social significance. For the first time, this study discusses and analyses these paradigms in the context of inter-varietal contact in a third country, with English as an additional contact language. A multiplicity of data collection methods made it possible to uncover many new insights into address behaviour. New definitions for address pronouns are proposed, and issues arising from address are discussed, such as: awareness, proficiency, avoidance, accommodation, and uncertainty. In addition, some unexpected practices emerged, which call into question all previously accepted norms of usage.
Thirty Years of Linguistic Evolution
Selección de estudios históricos sobre los problemas que han dominado la Lingüística en la segunda mitad del siglo XX y sus áreas afines, tales como el análisis gramatical, la semántica, la morfología y la denominada sociolingüística.
Family Language Transmission
This book examines the whys and wherefores of family language transmission from the perspective of parents as language planners and managers of their linguistic resources. It draws on a qualitative, interview-based study of twenty families in which German is, was, or could have been the target language. Successive census analyses have charted a marked decline in the number of German speakers in Australia, indicating that motivation for transmitting German has waned. The situations where it is presently being transmitted are therefore particularly interesting. Data analysis was facilitated by a decision map depicting the planning, implementation and outcome phases of the transmission undertaking. The main findings show that the parents' decision is negotiated around their own needs, interests and ambitions in terms of child-focussed, reciprocal and parent-centred motives. These, in turn, are linked to transmission strategies and the linguistic outcomes for the children. Through an understanding of the motivational issues arising in this context, it will hopefully be possible to better predict the effectiveness of the transmission strategies presently applied.
Eleanor
Presents a breakthrough portrait of America's longest-serving first lady that covers her major contributions throughout critical historical events and her essential role in advancing international human rights.
Taming the Vernacular
Taming the Vernacular: From Dialect to Written Standard Language examines the differences between 'standard' and 'nonstandard' varieties of several different languages. Not only are some of the best-known languages of Europe represented here, but also some that have been less well-researched in the past. The chapters address the syntax of Dutch, English, French, Finnish, Galician, German and Spanish. For these languages, and many others, it is the standard varieties on which the most extensive syntactic research has been carried out, with the result that very little is known about the syntax of their dialects or the spoken colloquial varieties. The editors of this volume seek to redress the ...
Sprache und Religion
In dem vorliegenden Band Sprache und Religion – Tendenzen und Perspektiven werden aktuelle Forschungsprojekte, empirische und methodologische Weiterführungen der religionslinguistischen Ideen und Ansätze sowie mögliche Erweiterungen dieses umfassenden Forschungsfeldes präsentiert. Den strukturellen Rahmen dieses Bandes bilden (1) systematische Überlegungen zur methodischen und theoretischen Ausdifferenzierung der Religionslinguistik. Er vereint (2) empirische Analysen zeitgenössischer Diskurse auf der einen Seite und (3) Anwendungsbeispiele in sprachhistorischer Orientierung innerhalb des Arbeitsfeldes Sprache und Religion auf der anderen Seite für eine Religionslinguistik, die sich als Aspekt einer Transzendenzlinguistik versteht und Religion als anthropologisches Konstituens auffasst. Der Band nimmt mithin Sprachgebräuche sowie politische und kulturelle Praxen – um nur einige zentrale Gegenstände zu nennen – in den Blick, die auf Transzendenz(en) fokussieren.
Investigating West Germanic Languages
This volume celebrates Robert B. Howell's wide-ranging contribution as a scholar, mentor, collaborator, and colleague in the field of Germanic linguistics. In addition to investigating present-day or past varieties of Afrikaans, Dutch, English, Flemish, German, and Pennsylvania Dutch, each of the thirteen contributions in this volume explores one or more of the topics found in Howell’s work: (1) Linguistic structure and change (Page, Sundquist, Fagan, De Vaan); (2) Migration, contact, and change (Fertig, Louden, Roberge); (3) Vernacular sources and change (Auer & Gordon, Hendriks, Van der Wal); (4) Historical sociolinguistics: past, present, and future (Van Bree, Crombez, Vandenbussche & Vosters, Lauersdorf & Salmons).
The Appropriation of Media in Everyday Life
Focuses on how people appropriate media in their daily lives. This book contributes to the burgeoning field of interactional linguistic media studies. It analyses the minutiae of the moment when people actively appropriate media for their own purposes in different fashions.
