Kategoria BISAC: Foreign Language Study >> German

In 1995 an official reform of German orthography was announced and a new set of rules for spelling and punctuation was introduced into schools between 1998 and 2005. These changes, however, unleashed a wave of public protest such that by the beginning of 1996 the question of how the German language should be written had evolved into a major judicial wrangle requiring the intervention of the Federal Constitutional Court.

In this book Sally Johnson explores the linguistic, cultural and political issues underpinning the constitutional challenge brought by various individuals and groups...

Die Studie ist am Schnittpunkt von Geschichts-, Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaften angesiedelt und behandelt die Jahre 1893-1933. Anhand einschlagiger Alltagsquellen werden liberaljudische, zionistische und antisemitische Einstellungen zu Sprache generell sowie zu den Einzelsprachen Deutsch, Jiddisch und Hebraisch im diskursiven Spannungsfeld von Angriff und Apologie untersucht
Ausgehend von der Fragestellung, von welchen sprachphilosophischen, politisch-nationalen oder biologistischen Konzepten und Konstrukten diese Topoi beeinflusst wurden, zeigt sich das deutsch-judische Verhaltnis als...

Professor Spalding's Historical Dictionary of German Figurative Usage has been appearing in separate fascicles since 1952. The work presents information about German figurative speech and its history in dictionary form. It covers phrases, proverbs and quotations found in German literature from 1750 onwards.

"On the criterion of pleasurable and profitable readability, Professor Spalding's work belongs to the masterpieces."
Times Higher Education Supplement

"This useful dictionary should be in the hands of every teacher of German and be available in...

The volume presents new approaches to explaining word order variation and change in the Germanic languages and thus relates to one of the most prominent and widely discussed topics in the theory of language change and diachronic syntax.

The novelty of our approach consists in three main points. First of all, we aim at describing functional variety in the field of word order and verb placement in the early Germanic languages not as a result of language contact, but rather as a language-internal phenomenon related to stylistic and grammatical conditions in information packaging....