The German Language in a Changing Europe
Edition: Revised edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 13, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780521499705
Subjects: Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; German language; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language; Sociolinguistics; Linguistics; German; Foreign Language Study-German; German language--Social aspects; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines-Linguistics; Dialects; Europe, German-speaking; Social aspects
First sentence: The language situation in Europe today is driven by two seemingly contradictory tendencies - tendencies towards what Fishman (1971) terms 'massification' and 'diversification' - which are operating simultaneously.