Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Linguistics - Sociolinguistics

Sprache ist politisch, und politisches Handeln vollzieht sich nie ohne Sprache. Sprachgebrauch bzw. sprachliches Handeln stehen dabei in einer unauflösbaren Wechselbeziehung mit der gesellschaftlich-politischen Wirklichkeit. Diese Wechselbeziehung aus verschiedenen Perspektiven zu analysieren, ist das Ziel der in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge, mit denen die Jahrestagung 2021 des Leibniz-Instituts für Deutsche Sprache dokumentiert wird. Dabei geht es nicht zuletzt um die gesellschaftliche Verantwortung, die die Sprachwissenschaft - wie alle Sozialwissenschaften - hat. Diese...

The disparagement of multilingualism is a European development of the 18^th and 19^th centuries in which one national language and national literature were advocated, established and institutionalised. Multilingual writers made use of the creative potential of several languages even then. However, they often adapted to an increasingly monolingual book market, which made their individual multilingualism invisible.
This is evident in literary historiography which established a monolingual national canon.
Researching hidden multilingualism is often difficult:...

This volume pushes forward research on (im)politeness by focusing on interpersonal interaction's cultural, digital and emotional aspects. With contributions by established and emerging scholars in the field, this collection explores and expounds, with the combination of solid theoretical foundation and up-close empirical demonstration, how (im)politeness not only gives but also gives off communicative and interpersonal meaning in diverse cultural contexts. Included are chapters on how (im)politeness contributes to the construction of social reality online and in social media and how...