Gertrud Reershemius – författare

The German-Speaking World is an accessible textbook that offers students the opportunity to explore for themselves a wide range of sociolinguistic issues relating to the German language and its role in the world.

This new, second edition has been fully revised to reflect the many political and social changes of the last 20 years including the impact of technology on language change. It continues to combine text with practical exercises and discussion questions to stimulate readers to think for themselves and to tackle specific problems.

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The German-Speaking World is the ideal textbook for undergraduate students who have a sound practical knowledge of German but who have little or no knowledge of linguistics or sociolinguistics.

The German-Speaking World is an accessible textbook that offers students the opportunity to explore for themselves a wide range of sociolinguistic issues relating to the German language and its role in the world.

This new, second edition has been fully revised to reflect the many political and social changes of the last 20 years including the impact of technology on language change. It continues to combine text with practical exercises and discussion questions to stimulate readers to think for themselves and to tackle specific problems.

Key features of this book:

The German-Speaking World is the ideal textbook for undergraduate students who have a sound practical knowledge of German but who have little or no knowledge of linguistics or sociolinguistics.

Quantitative Research Methods for Linguistics provides an accessible introduction to research methods for undergraduates undertaking research for the first time. Employing a task-based approach, the authors demonstrate key methods through a series of worked examples, allowing students to take a learn-by-doing approach and making quantitative methods less daunting for the novice researcher.

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Quantitative Research Methods for Linguistics is essential reading for all students undertaking degrees in linguistics and English language studies.

Quantitative Research Methods for Linguistics provides an accessible introduction to research methods for undergraduates undertaking research for the first time. Employing a task-based approach, the authors demonstrate key methods through a series of worked examples, allowing students to take a learn-by-doing approach and making quantitative methods less daunting for the novice researcher.

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Quantitative Research Methods for Linguistics is essential reading for all students undertaking degrees in linguistics and English language studies.

Gegenstand der funktional-pragmatischen Untersuchung ist Jiddisch, wie es gegenwärtig in Israel gesprochen wird. Auf der Grundlage von biographischen Erzählungen, empirischen Sprachdaten, transkribiert und übersetzt, wird die Umsetzung der jiddischen Grammatik in der Diskursart Erzählen nachvollzogen. In diesem Zusammenhang werden Strukturen wie das Tempussystem, komplexe Sätze und Wortstellung in ihren Erscheinungsformen zwischen Grammatik und Realisierung im Diskurs thematisiert. Darüber hinaus verfolgt die Untersuchung implizit die Frage nach der Genese des Jiddischen als Sprache, die sich von frühneuhochdeutschem Grundinventar mit hebräischem Spezialwortschatz ausgehend selbständig entwickelte.

Jiddisch ist eine Sprache, die in einem komplexen Zusammenhang von Schriftlichkeit und Mündlichkeit entstanden ist. Ist es der Kontakt mit slawischen Sprachen oder die Dynamik des westgermanischen Inventars des Jiddischen, das sich in slawischer Umgebung und tendentiell eher als gesprochene denn als geschriebene Sprache entwickelte, was dem modernen Jiddisch seinen eigenen Charakter gegeben hat?

Against the backdrop of social media and internet use and their impact on communication, those working with minority (or autochthonous) heritage languages, including teachers, language activists and planners and researchers, are reassessing the media, language policy and teaching practices which they had previously applied to stem the tide of language shift towards majority languages. The languages examined in this book are still spoken by a considerable number of speakers and enjoy varying and varied forms of institutional, legal, financial and ideological support. While their overall numbers of speakers are declining, their importance for identity construction and commodification processes continues to increase. This book addresses issues including the potential for a shift from a focus on oral to written practices; the rise of new communities of practice and communicative domains; and the need for resulting shifts in language policy and teaching methods.