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LANDMARKS IN THE HISTORY OF THE GERMAN LANGUAGE...

The contributions to this volume explore eleven key developments in the external history of the
German language  that is  the combination of social  political and cultural circumstances which
influenced the language and its speakers. Some of these 'landmarks' are individuals or groups
of people who have exerted influence over the language: Charlemagne  Luther  the early modern
grammarians and lexicographers. Others are studies of particular periods  places or groups
which have not found their place in more narrative accounts: standardisation in the nineteenth
century  the role of Low German  the state of German at the Stunde Null in 1945. An overarching
theme is the role of deliberate intervention in the development of German  whether it took the
form of education  prescriptivism  purism or political manipulation. The essays  a number of
which were originally delivered as lectures in the University of Cambridge and all of which are
by specialists in the field  combine to provide a history of the German language in its social
context.

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