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

by Stevenson, Patrick

• ISBN13: 9780198299691
• ISBN10: 0198299699
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-03-13
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

This title includes the following features: First review of the whole history of the east-west question in Germany from a (socio)linguistic point of view.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Abbreviations	xi
Introduction	1	(14)
Part I 1945--1990 Language, Nation, and State
Germany and the Questione della Lingua	15	(40)
Political change and linguistic crises	15	(9)
Language, society, and politics	24	(18)
Linguistic and sociolinguistic difference	42	(13)
Building and Unbuilding the GDR	55	(60)
The Byzantine architecture of official discourse	55	(14)
Rituality in the discourses of everyday life	69	(24)
The polyphony of Wende discourses	93	(22)
Part II 1990--2000 Relocating 'East' and 'West'
Conflicting Patterns in the Use and Evaluation of Language	115	(71)
The linguistic challenge of unification	115	(15)
Communicative dissonance	130	(22)
Linguistic variation and social mobility	152	(20)
Language ideologies and social discrimination	172	(14)
The Discursive Construction of Difference	186	(44)
Narratives of collective memory	186	(12)
Representations of self and other	198	(14)
Manufacturing and contesting identities	212	(18)
Conclusions	230	(9)
Bibliography	239	(30)
Index	269