The German language and the real world
Subtitle: sociolinguistic, cultural, and pragmatic perspectives on contemporary German
By: edited by Patrick Stevenson.
Contributors: Stevenson, Patrick.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 409
Subjects: German language -- Political aspects.; German language -- Social aspects.; Sociolinguistics.; German language -- History -- 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The study of real language : observing the observers / Patrick Stevenson; title: To what extent is German an international language? / Ulrich Ammon; title: Germanness : language and nation / Florian Coulmas; title: Norms and reforms : fixing the form of the language / Wolfgang Werner Sauer and Helmut Glück; title: Directions of change in contemporary German / Helmut Glück and Wolfgang Werner Sauer; title: After the Wall : social change and linguistic variation in Berlin / Helmut Schönfeld and Peter Schlobinski; title: Theories of sociolinguistic variation in the German context / Norbert Dittmar; title: Language.; title: in intercultural communication / Martina Rost-Roth; title: Critical linguistics and the study of institutional communication / Ruth Wodak; title: Political discourse : the language of right and left in Germany / Siegfried Jäger; title: Evaluation of language use in public discourse : language attitudes in Austria / Sylvia Moosmüller; title: Language and gender / Marlis Hellinger; title: Jugendsprachen : speech styles of youth subcultures / Peter Schlobinski; title: Language and television / Werner Holly.