14.3122, Books: Historical/Socioling, Germanic: Deumert (ed)

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Date:  Thu, 13 Nov 2003 09:34:20 -0500 (EST)
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  Germanic Standardizations: Deumert (ed)

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Date:  Thu, 13 Nov 2003 09:34:20 -0500 (EST)
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  Germanic Standardizations: Deumert (ed)



Title: Germanic Standardizations
Subtitle: Past to Present
Series Title: IMPACT: Studies in Language and Society 18

Publication Year: 2003

Publisher: John Benjamins
           http://www.benjamins.com/,
	   http://www.benjamins.nl

Book URL:
http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=Impact_18

Editor: Ana Deumert, Monash University
Editor: Wim Vandenbussche, Vrije Universiteit Brussel / FWO-Vlaanderen

Hardback: ISBN: 1588114376, Pages: vi, 480 pp., Price: USD 115.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9027218560, Pages: vi, 480 pp., Price: EUR 115.00

Abstract:

This volume presents a comparative, socio-historical study of the
Germanic standard languages (Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, English,
Faroese, Frisian, German, Icelandic, Low German, Luxemburgish,
Norwegian, Scots, Swedish, Yiddish as well as the Caribbean and
Pacific Creole languages). Each of the 16 orginal chapters
systematically discusses central aspects of the standardization
process, including dialect selection, codification, elaboration and
diffusion of the standard norm across the speech community, as well as
incipient processes of de-standardization and re-standardization. The
strongly comparative orientation of the contributions allow for the
identification of broad similarities as well as intriguing differences
across a wide range of historically and socially diverse language
histories. Two chapters by the editors provide an overview of the
theoretical background and rationale of comparative standardization
research, and outline directions for further research in the area. The
volume will be of interest to language historians as well as
sociolinguists in general.


Table of contents

Standard languages: Taxonomies and histories
Ana Deumert and Wim Vandenbussche 1-14
Afrikaans
Paul T. Roberge 15-40
Caribbean Creoles
Hubert Devonish 41-67
Danish
Tore Kristiansen 69-91
Dutch
Roland Willemyns 93-125
English
Terttu Nevalainen 127-156
Faroese
Zakaris Svabo Hansen, Jógvan í Lon Jacobsen and Eivind Weyhe 157
-191
Frisian
Eric Hoekstra 193-209
German
Klaus J. Mattheier 211-244
Icelandic
Kristján Árnason 245-279
Low German
Nils Langer 281-301
Luxembourgish
Peter Gilles and Claudine Moulin 303-329
Norwegian
Ernst Hakon Jahr 331-353
Pacific Pidgins and Creoles
Peter Mülhäusler 355-381
Scots
Marina Dossena 383-404
Swedish
Ulf Teleman 405-429
Yiddish
Rakhmiel Peltz 431-453
Research directions in the study of language standardization
Ana Deumert and Wim Vandenbussche 455-469
Index  471-479

Lingfield(s):   Historical Linguistics
		Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s):  German (Language Code: GER)

Written In:  English (Language Code: ENG)


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