| Description |
1 online resource (272 pages) |
| Series |
Lingua Historica Germanica Ser. ; v. 18 |
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Lingua Historica Germanica Ser
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| Contents |
Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Abbreviations and notes on presentation; 1. Introduction; 2. Language, Enlightenment and education in 18th-century Austria; 3. Grammarians' norm prescriptions; 4. The implementation of the language reform; 5. Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This book provides an insight into the standardisation process of German in eighteenth-century Austria. It describes how norms prescribed by grammarians were actually implemented via a school reform carried out by educationalist Johann Ignaz Felbiger on the order of Empress Maria Theresa. Quantitative and qualitative analyses were undertaken of certain Upper German features (e-apocope, the absence of the prefix ge- and the ending -t in past participles, and variants of the verb form sind) in reading primers, issues of the Wienerisches Diarium / Wiener Zeitung and petitionary letters. These reveal how such variants became increasingly 'invisible' in writing. This process of 'invisibilisation', i.e. a process of stigmatization which prevents the use of certain varieties and variants in writing, can be attributed to a number of factors: Empress Maria Theresa's appeal for a language reform, the normative work by eighteenth-century grammarians, the implementation of educational reforms, and the early introduction of East Central German variants in newspaper issues |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Germanic languages -- History -- 18th century
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Sociolinguistics -- Austria -- History -- 18th century
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Language policy -- Austria -- History -- 18th century
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Germanic languages.
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Language policy.
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Sociolinguistics.
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Austria.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783110547047 |
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311054704X |
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9783110546491 |
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3110546493 |
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3110546299 |
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9783110546293 |
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