Landmarks in the history of the German language
By: Geraldine Horan, Nils Langer and Sheila Watts, editors.
Contributors: Horan, Geraldine.; Langer, Nils, 1969-; Watts, Sheila.
Series: British and Irish studies in German language and literature -- Bd. 52; Britische und irische Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur -- no. 52.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bern; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9783039118908
Subjects: German language -- History; German language -- Social aspects; Sociolinguistics -- Germany
Notes: Some essays were originally delivered as lectures at the University of Cambridge.

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