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Subject: Language and Social Change in Central Europe: Stevenson, Carl
 

	
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Title: Language and Social Change in Central Europe 
Subtitle: Discourses on Policy, Identity and the German Language 
Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
	   http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/
	

Book URL: http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748635986 


Author: Patrick Stevenson
Author: Jenny Carl

Hardback: ISBN:  9780748635986 Pages: 288 Price: U.K. £ 70.00


Abstract:

This book explores the dynamics of language and social change in central 
Europe in the context of the end of the Cold War and eastern expansion of 
the European Union. One outcome of the profound social transformations in 
central Europe since the Second World War has been the reshaping of the 
relationship between particular languages and linguistic varieties, especially 
between 'national' languages and regional or ethnic minority languages. 
Previous studies have investigated these transformed relationships from the 
macro perspective of language policies, while others have taken more fine-
grained approaches to individual experiences with language. Combining these 
two perspectives for the first time - and focusing on the German language, 
which has a uniquely complex and problematic history in the region - the 
authors offer an understanding of the complex constellation of language 
politics in central Europe.

Stevenson and Carl's analysis draws on a range of theoretical, conceptual 
and analytical approaches - language ideologies, language policy, positioning 
theory, discourse analysis, narrative analysis and life histories - and a wide 
range of data sources, from European and national language policies to 
individual language biographies. The authors demonstrate how the 
relationship between German and other languages has played a crucial role in 
the politics of language and processes of identity formation in the recent 
history of central Europe. 



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): German, Standard (deu)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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