The German Language in Switzerland

Multilingualism, Diglossia and Variation

Felicity Rash (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

321 Seiten

1998
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
978-3-906757-68-1 (ISBN)

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This book offers a broad survey of issues relating to the German language in Switzerland. The initial focus is on the German-speaking community's relationship with the French, Italian and Romansh language communities. Consideration is then given to the complex issue of diglossia within the germanophone Swiss community, and the maintenance of both the Swiss German dialects and the Swiss German standard language as co-existent codes of equal status. The Swiss German dialects, the Swiss variety of standard German, and the influence of various foreign languages on both of these language forms are described in some detail. Finally, sociolinguistic issues affecting the German language in Switzerland are considered: the connection between social variation and linguistic change; language variation stemming from differences of age, sex and ethnic origin; and linguistic behaviour and phatic communication.

The Author: Dr. Felicity Rash is a Lecturer in German at Queen Mary and Westfield College (University of London). Her published work includes her doctoral thesis, French and Italian lexical influences in German-speaking Switzerland (1550-1650), and articles on German sociolinguistics and German-Swiss literature.

Contents: Multilingualism - Diglossia - Regional variation - Social variation - Language planning.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.2.1998
Reihe/Serie	German Linguistic and Cultural Studies ; 3
Verlagsort	Bern
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 220 mm
Gewicht	450 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Germanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Deutsch /Sprache • Diglossia • German • Hardcover, Softcover / Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft • HC/Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft • language • Multilingualism • Rash • regional variation • Schweizerdeutsch /Sprache • Sociolinguistics • Sprachkontakt • Swiss German dialect • Switzerland • Variation
ISBN-10	3-906757-68-4 / 3906757684
ISBN-13	978-3-906757-68-1 / 9783906757681
Zustand	Neuware