Language and German Disunity: A Sociolinguistic History of East and West in Germany, 1945-2000

ISBN-13: 9780198299707 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 288 str.

Patrick Stevenson; P. Stevenson

Opis

This book explores the much contested concept of Germanness from a contemporary sociolinguistic perspective, tracing continuities and discontinuities in the development of Germany as a speech community from the formal division in the aftermath of the Second World War to the uncomfortable and problematic unity of the present day.

Recenzje

This book is ideal for not only the students of socio-linguistics but for everyone who is interested in studying language politics and understanding a linguistic fact as a political act.

O autorze

Patrick Stevenson studied at the Universities of Oxford, Sussex and Reading. He is currently Reader in German and Head of German Studies at the University of Southampton. He has published widely on many aspects of German sociolinguistics.