Sociolinguistics

In der Sprachgeschichtsforschung herrscht relative Einigkeit darüber, dass das Ostmitteldeutsche des späten Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit für die Herausbildung der modernen deutschen Schrift- und Standardsprache von zentraler Bedeutung war.

This volume critically examines the phenomenon of "e;English fever"e; in South Korea from both micro- and macro-perspectives.

This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to try to answer the question of how do we, as human beings, go from the socially neutral linguistic act of discriminating external stimuli to the socially loaded act of promoting social discrimination though language?

Volume 6 comprises the three southerly parishes of Kirk Malew (including the town and former capital Castletown and the large village of Ballasalla), Kirk Arbory, and Kirk Christ Rushen (including the Calf of Man island).

Volume 5 comprises the three central and eastern parishes of Kirk Braddan, Kirk Marown, and Kirk Santan.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Das literarische Kunstwerk" verfügbar.

Using a data base of more than 86,000 verb tokens from texts written by Nurembergers between 1356 and 1619, this book explores some of the many changes in verbal inflection that took place during this period and their implications for a number of important questions in morphological and diachronic theory.

This book investigates the acquisition of intonation by German/English bilingual children.

This volume presents a study of the phenomenon of dialect levelling, the process of the reduction of structural variation.

Minglang Zhou's highly erudite and well-researched volume on the policies concerning writing reforms for China's minorities since 1949 provides an original and well-reasoned summary of a complex process.

This study investigates the interface of power and politeness in the realization of disagreements in naturalistic language data.

Das Ritual der Preisverleihung ist längst ein wichtiges Machtinstrument im Kulturbetrieb geworden.

This volume is the first comprehensive comparative dictionary to cover the whole of the Chukotko-Kamchatkan family.

Lavukaleve is a Papuan Language spoken on the Russell Islands in the Central Province of the Solomon Islands.

The present volume grew out of the 30th International LAUD Symposium, held on April 19-22, 2004 at the University of Koblenz-Landau in Landau, Germany.

The book presents an analysis of selected domains of morphosyntactic variation in a 250,000 word collection of the Middle English Paston Letters (1421-1503) from a historical sociolinguistic point of view.

This book responds to recent criticisms that the research and theorization of multilingualism on the part of applied linguists are in collusion with neoliberal policies and economic interests.

Die mögliche Einführung der Präimplantationsdiagnostik in Deutschland wurde in den Jahren 2000 bis 2002 öffentlich kontrovers diskutiert.

The volume brings together the papers read at the international conference on Romance Objects organized by the Linguistics Department of the Roma Tre University.

Lange Zeit glaubte man in Europa, dass die Sprachen der Arbeitsmigranten, die seit den 60er Jahren aus der Türkei und anderen Ländern nach Mittel- und Nordeuropa kamen, spätestens in der dritten Generation zugunsten der jeweiligen Landessprachen der Einwanderungsländer verschwinden würden.