| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
1945-1990 Language, Nation, and State -- Germany and the Questione della Lingua -- Political change and linguistic crises -- Language, society, and politics -- Linguistic and sociolinguistic difference -- Building and Unbuilding the GDR -- The Byzantine architecture of official discourse -- Rituality in the discourses of everyday life -- The polyphony of Wende discourses -- 1990-2000 Relocating 'East' and 'West' -- Conflicting Patterns in the Use and Evaluation of Language -- The linguistic challenge of unification -- Communicative dissonance -- Linguistic variation and social mobility -- Language ideologies and social discrimination -- The Discursive Construction of Difference -- Narratives of collective memory -- Representations of self and other -- Manufacturing and contesting identities |
| Summary |
Stevenson investigates the history of national disunity in Germany since the end of World War II from a linguistic perspective. He asks: what was the role of language in the ideological conflicts of the Cold War and in the difficult process of rebuilding the German nation after 1990? |
| Notes |
9780198299707 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sociolinguistics -- Germany (East)
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Sociolinguistics -- Germany (West)
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German language -- Political aspects
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German language -- Political aspects
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Sociolinguistics
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Germany (East)
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Germany (West)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191708053 |
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0191708054 |
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