Language and German disunity
Subtitle: a sociolinguistic history of East and West in Germany, 1945-2000
By: Patrick Stevenson.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
Subjects: German language -- Political aspects -- Germany; German language -- Social aspects -- Germany; Sociolinguistics -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Description: Stevenson investigates the history of national disunity in Germany since the end of World War II from a linguistic perspective. He asks: what was the role of language in the ideological conflicts of the Cold War and in the difficult process of rebuilding the German nation after 1990?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-268) and index.