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Language and German disunity : a sociolinguistic history of East and West in Germany, 1945-2000 /

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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?

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stevenson, Patrick, 1954-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Sociolinguistics > Germany (East)
Sociolinguistics > Germany (West)
German language > Political aspects.
Sociolinguistique > Allemagne (Est)
Sociolinguistique > Allemagne (Ouest)
Allemand (Langue) > Aspect politique.
German language > Political aspects
Sociolinguistics
Germany (East)
Germany (West)
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.