Bachelor Thesis from the year 2005 in the subject German Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1, University of Manchester, 42 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Ferguson's initial definition of diglossia describes the use of 'two language varieties that] exist side by side throughout the community, each having a definite role to play' (1959, repr. 1972: 232). The relationship between the Swiss dialects (which will be referred to from hereon as SG) and Swiss Standard German (HG) has been characterized as 'medial diglossia', based on the HG for writing and SG for speaking...