Research Catalog

Title

Variation in German : a critical approach to German sociolinguistics / Stephen Barbour and Patrick Stevenson.

Author

Barbour, Stephen.

Publication

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990.

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Details

Additional Authors

Stevenson, Patrick, 1954-

Description

xiii, 308 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Subjects

• Deutsch,
• Deutsch
• Sociolinguistique
• Allemand (langue) > Aspect social
• Allemand (langue) > Variation linguistique
• Sociolinguistics
• German language > Social aspects
• German language > Variation
• Duits
• Taalvariatie
• Sprachvariante
• Sprachgebrauch
• Soziologie
• Soziolinguistik
• Mundart
• sociolinguistics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• What is German and who speaks it? -- Problems of definition -- The scope of variation in German -- Fuzzy and discrete language boundaries -- Languages in society -- Language contact and language change -- Multilingual speech communities -- Approaches to the study of variation in language -- Dialectology and sociolinguistics -- Sociolinguistics and sociolinguistics -- Outline of following chapters -- The historical background -- German as an Indo-European language and as a Germanic language -- German as an Indo-European language -- German as a Germanic language -- Relationships between German and other Germanic languages -- The development of a distinct German language -- The fragmentation of continental West Germanic -- Factors favouring the unity of German -- The rise of standard German -- The rise of standard written forms -- The acceptance of a single written standard -- The rise of a standard spoken variety -- The emergence of the modern continuum -- Currents of change in contemporary German -- The influence of German on other languages -- German influenced by other languages -- The influence of standard German on other varieties -- The German tradition of dialectology -- Definitions and the object of study -- Interests in dialect study -- Attitudes to dialect variation -- Types of interest -- Background to the development of German dialectology -- Dialect geography: the Marburg School -- Explanations in traditional dialectology -- Interpreting data -- The extralinguistic approach -- The linguistic approach.
• Explanations in dialectology and sociolinguistics -- The contemporary relevance of the findings of traditional dialectology -- The dialect boundaries within German -- The north-central-south division based on the High German sound shift -- Low German and Dutch dialects -- Upper German dialects -- Middle German dialects -- The importance of the north-central-south division -- Other isoglosses dividing northern from southern dialects -- Older north-south divisions -- Newer north-south divisions -- Major divisions within the three principal dialect areas -- Divisions within Low German-Dutch -- Divisions within Middle German -- Divisions within Upper German -- Other important isoglosses -- Diphthongization -- Unrounding -- Lenition -- Dialect vocabulary -- Categories of lexical variation -- Regional lexical variation in both dialect and standard -- Dialect variation and stylistic variation in standard German -- Language and society: urban speech, urbanization and 'new dialectology' -- From rural to urban dialectology -- Social change: 'modernization' and its implications for linguistic study -- Changing theoretical perspectives -- Changes in methodology -- New approaches to dialectology -- Departing from tradition: Nauborn -- Variation and social groups -- Variation and individuals -- Berlin: portrait of a divided city -- The social meaning of Berlinisch -- Vocabulary -- Phonology -- Pragmatics: Berliner Schnauze -- Attitudes to variation -- Erp: suburban dialectology -- The speech community -- Composing a communication profile.
• Identifying speech varieties -- Re-assessing variation -- Sociolinguistic variation and the continuum of colloquial speech -- Differing views of variation in German -- Standard German -- Traditional German dialects -- The continuum of colloquial speech -- The nature and study of variation in German -- The relationship between colloquial speech, formal standard German and traditional dialect -- The relative neglect of colloquial speech -- The neglect of the continuum -- The neglect of divisions within the continuum -- The users of the various types of German -- The linguistic characteristics of colloquial German -- A social rather than a geographical view of variation in German -- The standard of comparison -- Phonetic and phonological variation within German -- Categories of phonetic and phonological variation -- Phonological accent deviations from DH -- Phonological dialect differences from standard German -- Grammatical variation in German -- Typological differences between varieties of German -- The nominal systems of varieties of German -- The verb systems of varieties of German -- Lexical variation in German -- Lexical variation in perspective -- National varieties of German -- Formal and informal lexicon -- Regional variation in lexicon -- German in East and West -- Differing views of the East -- West linguistic divide -- The extent of East -- West variation -- East -- West variation in context -- Standard and non-standard German: their role in society -- The political and social correlates of variation in German.
• The social effects of variation in German in the Federal Republic -- The assumed linguistic disadvantage of the working class -- Restricted and elaborated codes -- Suggested linguistic causes of disadvantage -- Linguistic problems facing all social groups -- The social effects of variation in other German-speaking countries -- Language in multilingual societies: the Federal Republic and Switzerland -- Multilingualism in the Federal Republic -- Gastarbeiterdeutsch -- Accounting for uniformity and variation in Gastarbeiterdeutsch -- The process of acquisition -- The transfer hypothesis -- The pidgin hypothesis -- Foreigner Talk and the universal simplification hypothesis -- Linguistic pluralism in Switzerland -- Maintaining social and linguistic stability -- Areas of potential conflict -- Diglossia and the status of Swiss German -- The 'classic example' of German-speaking Switzerland -- Diglossia reconsidered -- Contact and conflict -- Approaches to the study of language contact -- Analytical apparatus -- Sociological and psychological factors -- Sociopolitical factors -- Economic and demographic factors -- Sociocultural factors -- German in competition with other languages -- Eastern Belgium -- Luxembourg -- Alsace-Lorraine -- South Tyrol -- Language decline and language shift -- Schleswig -- South-east Austria -- Specific linguistic consequences of contact -- Lexical transfer -- Morphological/syntactic transfer -- German in contact with English -- English influence in context -- Examples of English influence on German.

ISBN

• 0521353971
• 9780521353977
• 0521357047
• 9780521357043

LCCN

• 89009810
• 9780521357043

OCLC

• ocm19671316
• 19671316
• SCSB-8852036

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library