Studies on Language Norms in Context

This book deepens the insight into the setting and monitoring of language norms in different contexts. One focus lies on institutional contexts, in which the authors examine standardization, language policy and the implementation of usage norms. In the context of language learning, the authors investigate cognitive strategies of L2 norm construction by initial learners, L2 norms in grammars as well as interactional norms regulating teacher behavior. Finally, the volume theoretically explores the nature of discourse norms and examines their management and metadiscursive formulation in a variety of communicative activities and genres.

Contributions to the volume are predominantly in English, some in German.

Elena Maria Pandolfi is a researcher at the Osservatorio linguistico della Svizzera italiana (OLSI). Her publications cover sociolinguistics, lexicon and morphosyntax, Italian language, multilingualism, language teaching and language policy.

Johanna Miecznikowski teaches linguistics at the Università della Svizzera italiana. Her research areas are discourse and conversation analysis, discourse markers, modality, evidentiality, argumentation and multilingualism.

Sabine Christopher is a lecturer at the Università della Svizzera italiana and a researcher at the Osservatorio linguistico della Svizzera italiana. Her publications cover multilingualism, sociolinguistics, language teaching, language policy and discourse analysis.

Alain Kamber is a professor of French as a foreign language at the Institut de langue et civilisation françaises of the University of Neuchâtel. His research focuses on corpus linguistics, grammar and syntax as well as language teaching from a contrastive perspective and involving new technologies.