Landmarks in the History of the German Language

The Editors: Geraldine Horan completed her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at Royal Holloway, University of London. Since 2000 she has been a Lecturer in German Language and Linguistics at University College London. Her research interests lie in feminist linguistics, discourse analysis and political discourse, with a particular focus on the relationship between gender, discourse, nationalism and National Socialism.
Nils Langer obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Newcastle and has since worked at the University of Bristol where he is a Reader in German Linguistics. His work focuses on areas of historical sociolinguistics, in particular with regard to the standardisation of German and the stigmatisation of non-standard variants.
Sheila Watts spent her early career at Trinity College Dublin, where she obtained her doctorate. Since 1998 she has been a University Lecturer in German at the University of Cambridge (Newnham College). She has worked on grammaticalisation in the history of German, particularly in Old Saxon, and on early modern linguistic historiography.

Contents: Geraldine Horan/Nils Langer/Sheila Watts: Introduction - Rosamond McKitterick: A Landmark Figure in the History of German? Charlemagne, Language and Literacy - John L. Flood: Luther and Tyndale as Bible Translators: Achievement and Legacy - Nicola McLelland: Understanding German Grammar Takes Centuries - William Jervis Jones: Dictionaries and their Role in the Formation of German (1500-1900) - Maria B. Lange: Texts and Text Types in the History of German - Falco Pfalzgraf: Linguistic Purism in the History of German - Martin Durrell: Deutsch: Teutons, Germans or Dutch? The Problems of Defining a Nation - Winifred V. Davies: Standard German in the Nineteenth Century - Nils Langer: Sociolinguistic Changes in the History of Low German - Geraldine Horan: Gendered and Political Discourses: Women in National Socialism - C.J. Wells: Language in Limbo? Post-1945 German.

"This volume is recommended for all those interested in the language-external factors and forces involved in the evolution of the German language. The papers are of uniformly high quality and offer insights from a wide range of viewpoints." (Shannon A. Dubenion-Smith, Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik LXXX, 2013/1)

«This volume is recommended for all those interested in the language-external factors and forces involved in the evolution of the German language. The papers are of uniformly high quality and offer insights from a wide range of viewpoints.» (Shannon A. Dubenion-Smith, Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik LXXX, 2013/1)