Since the publication of the first edition of the handbook Sociolinguistics/Soziolinguistik , the then young discipline has changed and developed considerably. The field has left behind its status as an interdiscipline between sociology and linguistics and is now a worldwide established field. Sociolinguistics continues to contribute to solving practical problems in areas such as language planning and standardization, language policy, as well as in language didactics and speech therapy. Moreover, new topics and areas of application have arisen from the autonomy of the discipline - these have been systematically and extensively included in the second edition of the handbook. The new overall concept depicts the regional and disciplinary representativity of sociolinguistic research while offering an encyclopedia-like useablitiy for all its readers. This includes theoretical depth and stringency for readers interested in theory, as well as methodical abundance and detail for empirical researchers. The descriptions of methods are so informative and precise that they can directly be used in the preparation of project planning. Similarly, the descriptions in the practice-oriented articles are so precise that users can accurately assess to what extent they can expect a certain sociolinguistic approach to help solve their problems. With an extensive description as its goal, the second edition of the handbook Sociolinguistics/Soziolinguistik takes into account the current standing of the discipline and the modified structure of the field.

In the course of a general process of social modernization throughout Europe since the early modern period, a communicative modernization has also taken place. In this context, both horizontal mobility and the various forms of population shift connected with it have played a role. European sociolinguistic research has dealt with the various social reasons for these variety shifts and variety changes. These articles are compiled and edited for the first time in the submitted work.

Since the publication of the first edition of the handbook Sociolinguistics/Soziolinguistik , the then young discipline has changed and developed considerably. The field has left behind its status as an interdiscipline between sociology and linguistics and is now a worldwide established field. Sociolinguistics continues to contribute to solving practical problems in areas such as language planning and standardization, language policy, as well as in language didactics and speech therapy. Moreover, new topics and areas of application have arisen from the autonomy of the discipline - these have been systematically and extensively included in the second edition of the handbook. The new overall concept depicts the regional and disciplinary representativity of sociolinguistic research while offering an encyclopedia-like useablitiy for all its readers. This includes theoretical depth and stringency for readers interested in theory, as well as methodical abundance and detail for empirical researchers. The descriptions of methods are so informative and precise that they can directly be used in the preparation of project planning. Similarly, the descriptions in the practice-oriented articles are so precise that users can accurately assess to what extent they can expect a certain sociolinguistic approach to help solve their problems. With an extensive description as its goal, the second edition of the handbook Sociolinguistics/Soziolinguistik takes into account the current standing of the discipline and the modified structure of the field.

Historical studies on Old and Middle High German and the corresponding stages in the development of Low German represent a fairly well-defined field of inquiry. The period between the 16th century and the present, by contrast, confronts historical language research with a considerable dilemma in that the language system can be regarded in many respects as not having undergone major changes so much as a process of extension and differentiation. The papers delivered at the Heidelberg colloquium and published here in book form discuss possible areas of inquiry for historical language research into the evolution of the German language since the early Modern Age, approaches to the problems this field presents and methods of describing the phenomena encountered. Particular emphasis is placed throughout on the history of reflection on language, the institutional concern with language and the manifold interpenetration between forms of language usage employed in society in general, in the history of ideas, the history of literature and across the various cultural areas of the German-speaking world.

Questo volume esamina la realta linguistica della Valle del Mercure, area geografica di confine tra Basilicata e Calabria. Elemento portante della ricerca, che introduce nuove impostazioni e nuovi parametri sociolinguistici, e l'interpretazione della linguistica di contatto come chiave del cambiamento di variazione. Avviando una dialettologia politopica e comparativa attenta ad analizzare localita gia appartenenti all'Area Lausberg, lo studio permette di giungere anche a una proposta complessiva riguardante il quadro dialettologico dell'intera Basilicata, da considerare come una regione "costituita da microaree alternate ad isole linguistiche e/o colonie linguistiche che si estendono a ".

Sprache ist stets eingebettet in historische Situationen, in denen Akteure spezifische Interessen verfolgen. Die Auswahlentscheidungen, die sie dabei bezuglich sprachlicher Zeichen treffen, sind soziolinguistisch interpretierbar. Der Fokus auf Varianten als interpretierbare Zeichen fuhrt dann auch zur Einsicht in die unterschiedliche Interpretierbarkeit sprachlicher Zeichen je nach sozio-kulturellem Kontext. Sprachliche Handlungen in ihrem sozio-kulturellen Kontext zu interpretieren ohne auf verallgemeinerbare Aussagen uber die Struktur einer Sprache zu verzichten, stellt fur die Sprachwissenschaft noch immer eine lohnende Herausforderung dar. Der Band vereint Beitrage, die sich zu dieser Herausforderung positionieren und sich mit den unterschiedlichen Ansatzen in den Forschungsarbeiten von Beate Henn-Memmesheimer beschaftigen.

Die Arbeit zeichnet den Diskurs uber die deutsche Sprache im Nationalsozialismus nach, wie er in der Besatzungszeit von 1945 bis 1949 bei den Kontrollbehoerden der westlichen Alliierten gefuhrt wurde. Neben kultur- und bildungspolitischen Aspekten wie der Schulbuchzensur werden anhand von Archivmaterial vor allem Sprachpolitik, Sprachregelung und Sprachkritik in den Medien untersucht. Im Mittelpunkt der Studie stehen dabei die amerikanische Medienkontrolle und ihre Versuche, im Rahmen der Reeducation auch die deutsche Sprache in Printmedien, Rundfunk und Nachrichtenagenturen zu entnazifizieren. Ausserdem wird die Tatigkeit des sprachpolitisch einflussreichsten Kontrolloffiziers in der amerikanischen Besatzungszone, Eugene Jolas, naher beleuchtet.

Questo studio costituisce un tentativo di innovare la ricerca dialettologica sostituendo alla tradizionale prospettiva fondata sulla diatopia un approccio pluri -- dimensionale che accoglie in pieno le suggestioni della sociolinguistica laboviana. Nell' esaminare un'area dialettale poco indagata se ne analizzano le principali caratteristiche fonetiche, morfologiche e sintattiche, dedicando particolare attenzione agli aspetti della variazione libera e condizionata. Accanto alle dimensioni diagenerazionale, diastratica, diasessuale, si prende in speciale considerazione la diafasia, proponendo una descrizione dinamica del continuum dialetti-substandard. Dal contenuto: Descrizione dialettologica pluridimensionale di un'area della Campania -- Fonetica -- Morfologia -- Sintassi -- Variazione libera e condizionata.

Gegenstand des Buches ist die Bestimmung globaler Argumentationsstrategien und -stile in wissenschaftlichen Artikeln. Ein kontrastives Verstandnis der argumentativen Ablaufe bringt der Autorin zufolge grosse Vorteile fur die interkulturelle Kommunikation und Integration. So zeichnet sich der italienische Diskurs durch persoenliche Komponenten, Bescheidenheitstopos, induktive, indirekte, graduelle und komplexe Argumentationen aus. Den deutschen Diskurs kennzeichnen dagegen argumentative Starke, Direktheit und Explizitheit. Die linguistischen Studien sind oefter informativ mit teleologischen Argumenten. In der Soziologie argumentiert man komplex, aber direkt. Diese Unterschiede spiegeln einen zu foerdernden Reichtum an Denkweisen und heuristischen Wegen wider.

The focus of the essays is the investigation of the sociolinguistic phenomenon of German linguistic enclaves with respect to language contact, language history, dialectology and language politics. The multifaceted linguistic and sociolinguistic developments, which German language varieties separated from the German-speaking homeland undergo, converge in the final analysis in the juxtaposition of language maintenance and language loss.

Die Jugendsprache- und Identitatsforschung im deutschsprachigen Raum hat das weibliche Geschlecht bis heute straflich vernachlassigt. Die Arbeit setzt an dieser Forschungslucke an und liefert auf der Grundlage eines umfangreichen Korpus Einblicke in Alltagsgesprache einer jugendlichen Madchengruppe. Im Fokus der empirischen Untersuchung steht die interaktive Konstitution von Gruppenidentitat und Geschlechtsidentitat der Madchen durch die Abgrenzung von diversen "Anderen". Welche sozialen Kategorien (Britneys, HipHopper etc.) setzen die Madchen in ihren Gesprachen als relevant und welche sprachlichen Mittel verwenden sie dabei? Mithilfe der ethnographischen Gesprachsanalyse wird diesen und weiteren Fragen nachgegangen, um letztendlich zu dokumentieren, was es zu Beginn des neuen Jahrtausends bedeutet, ein "ganz normales" Madchen im Teenageralter zu sein.