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This book explores the much contested concept of Germanness from a contemporary sociolinguistic perspective, tracing continuities and discontinuities in the development of Germany as a speech community from the formal division in the aftermath of the Second World War to the uncomfortable and problematic unity of the present day.
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About the Author
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.
Review
`Review from other book by this author 'German Language and the Real World'. These contributions work well together as a collected volume. They constitute a theme, and raise interesting questions for future research.'
Neil G. Jacobs, Ohio State University, Language in Society 26:2 (1997)
`This volume gives an excellent overview of the situation of the German language today. ... I commend this book to all those with an interest in the German language of the 1990s in the context of social and political changes taking place in the German-speaking countries.'
Notes on Linguistics 78, 1997
`This volume is mainly a collection of syntheses of previous research in different areas, and as such it does succeed at providing the reader with an overview of how German and Austrian scholars of sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and discourse analysis analyze the 'German language in the real
world'. / Jennifer Dailey-O'Cain, University of Alberta, and Rosina Lippi-Green, Western Washington University'
American Journal of German Linguistics and Literatures, Vol 10, no 1, 1998
`A wide-ranging volume.'
Year's Work in Modern language Studies
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0198299702
- ISBN 13 9780198299707
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages288
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