Spelling Trouble
Subtitle: Language, Ideology And The Reform Of German Orthography
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
Published: March 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781853597855
Subjects: Phonetics, phonology, prosody (speech); Sociolinguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines; Foreign Language - Dictionaries / Phrase Books; Language; German; Study & Teaching; German language; Germany; Language policy; Orthography and spelling; Spelling reform
Description: 'Spelling Trouble?' explores linguistic, cultural and political issues underpinning the public disputes surrounding the 1996 reform of German orthography. Sally Johnson's book will be of interest to speakers and students of German as well as sociolinguists.