History of the German Language Through Texts

by Gloning, Thomas; Young, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9780415183321
• ISBN10: 0415183324
• Format: Paperback
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

"A History of the German Language through Texts is essential reading for students of German, Linguistics or Philology."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Thomas Gloning is Lecturer in German Linguistics at the University of Marburg, Germany. Christopher Young is Lecturer at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Pembroke College, where he is Director of Studies in Modern and Medieval Languages.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
List of tables
List of phonetic symbols and abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
Pre-textual German: from Indo-European to West Germanic	p. 10
Old High German (c.750-c.1050)	p. 25
The Lord's Prayer: major dialects of the OHG period and Old English	p. 29
Heroic Lay: Das Hildebrandslied	p. 42
Legal code: Lex Salica	p. 54
Political treaty: the Strasburg Oaths	p. 60
Gospel harmony: Otfrid von Weissenburg's Evangelienbuch	p. 67
Political praise poem: the Ludwigslied	p. 77
Phrasebook: the Paris Conversations	p. 86
History: Notker of St. Gallen's prologue to his Boethius translation	p. 92
Middle High German (c.1050-c.1350)	p. 101
Williram of Ebersberg: Commentary to the Song of Songs	p. 103
Courtly romance: Hartmann von Aue's Iwein	p. 113
French influence: Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan	p. 123
Legal Documents: Oath for Jews and Vienna Fief Transfer	p. 130
Legal code: Der Sachsenspiegel	p. 139
Mysticism: Mechthild von Magdeburg - Das fliessende Licht der Gottheit	p. 148
Medicine: Breslauer Arzneibuch	p. 153
Early New High German (c.1350-c.1700)	p. 161
Humanism and linguistic levelling: Niklas von Wyle's Translatzen	p. 164
Low German and the language of business: the Hanseatic League	p. 175
Language use for special purposes: cookery recipes 1350-1600	p. 185
Language use in the early mass media: Reformation pamphlets	p. 195
Bible translation: Martin Luther	p. 205
Purism in the seventeenth century: Johann Rist	p. 218
Dialect: Andreas Gryphius's Die Geliebte Dornrose	p. 224
New High German (c.1700-c.1945)	p. 233
'Natural style': Letters and Moral Weeklies	p. 235
J. W. Goethe: literature, natural sciences and administration	p. 243
Political pamphlets: Berlin 1848	p. 252
Lexicography and nationalism: Jacob Grimm's Vorrede zum Deutschen Worterbuch	p. 263
Industrialization, technology and language: Die Marmorirkunst and Ferdinand Lassalle	p. 272
Elements of everyday language use: letters and letter-writing manuals	p. 278
Scientific prose in the nineteenth century: Rudolf Virchow	p. 287
National Socialism: Fritz Lenz's Die Familie im Dienst der Rassenhygiene	p. 298
Contemporary German (c.1945-c.2000)	p. 307
The language of the GDR: texts on the erection and fall of the Berlin Wall	p. 309
The public sphere: discourse strategies and lexical development	p. 318
English influence: Jil Sander and the Verein Deutsche Sprache	p. 325
Newspapers: language and text organization in the nineteenth century and twentieth century	p. 332
Jugendsprache: Katz und Goldt and chatrooms	p. 344
Glossary	p. 358
Bibliography	p. 361
Index	p. 384
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