The German Language in Switzerland
The German Language in Switzerland

Author: Felicity J. Rash

Publisher: Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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This book offers a broad survey of issues relating to the German language in Switzerland. The initial focus is on the German-speaking community's relationship with the French, Italian and Romansh language communities. Consideration is then given to the complex issue of diglossia within the germanophone Swiss community, and the maintenance of both the Swiss German dialects and the Swiss German standard language as co-existent codes of equal status. The Swiss German dialects, the Swiss variety of standard German, and the influence of various foreign languages on both of these language forms are described in some detail. Finally, sociolinguistic issues affecting the German language in Switzerland are considered: the connection between social variation and linguistic change; language variation stemming from differences of age, sex and ethnic origin; and linguistic behaviour and phatic communication.

Challenging the Monolingual Mindset
Challenging the Monolingual Mindset

Author: John Hajek

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2014-10-01

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1783092513

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This volume challenges the monolingual mindset by highlighting how language-related issues surround us in many different ways, and explores the tensions that can develop in managing and understanding multilingualism. The book features analysis and discussion on the use of languages across a range of contexts, including post-migration settlement, policy, education, language contact and intercultural communication.

Languages in Contact
Languages in Contact

Author: Uriel Weinreich

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2011-11-23

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 9027284997

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The appearance of Uriel Weinreich's Languages in Contact: Findings and Problems (1953) marked a milestone in the study of multilingualism and language contact. Yet until now, few linguists have been aware that its main themes were first laid out in Weinreich’s Columbia University doctoral dissertation of 1951, Research Problems in Bilingualism with Special Reference to Switzerland. Based on the author's fieldwork, it contains a detailed report on language contact in Switzerland in the first half of the 20th century, especially along the French-German linguistic border and between German and Romansh in the canton of Grisons (Graubünden). The present edition reproduces Weinreich's original text in full, with only minor alterations and corrections, as well as the author's fieldwork photographs and many of his hand-drawn diagrams. A new foreword reviews Weinreich's life and legacy, as well as developments in contact linguistics and the Swiss linguistic situation over the past 60 years. With selected comments on noteworthy points and references to more recent literature, this volume will be of interest not only to those working on the languages of Switzerland, or specialists in language contact, but all scholars today whose work builds on the broad and lasting foundations laid over half a century ago by Uriel Weinreich.

Basel in the Age of Burckhardt
Basel in the Age of Burckhardt

Author: Lionel Gossman

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2002-04-15

Total Pages: 630

ISBN-13: 9780226305004

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This remarkable history tells the story of the independent city-republic of Basel in the nineteenth century, and of four major thinkers who shaped its intellectual history: the historian Jacob Burckhardt, the philologist and anthropologist Johann Jacob Bachofen, the theologian Franz Overbeck, and the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. "Remarkable and exceptionally readable . . . There is wit, wisdom and an immense erudition on every page."—Jonathan Steinberg, Times Literary Supplement "Gossman's book, a product of many years of active contemplation, is a tour de force. It is at once an intellectual history, a cultural history of Basel and Europe, and an important contribution to the study of nineteenth-century historiography. Written with a grace and elegance that many aspire to, few seldom achieve, this is model scholarship."—John R. Hinde, American Historical Review

English in the German-speaking World
English in the German-speaking World

Author: Raymond Hickey

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-12-05

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 1108488099

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A collection of studies on the role of English in German-speaking countries, covering a broad range of topics.

Naw Much of a Talker
Naw Much of a Talker

Author: Pedro Lenz

Publisher: Cargo Publishing

Published: 2013-08-12

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 1908754230

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Known only as 'the goalie', the novel's narrator is always taking the blame. He's just been released from jail, having kept schtum during a drugs bust at his local pub. The goalie is a sucker for a good story, he lives and breathes them, is forever telling stories to himself and anyone who'll listen. He returns to his hometown broke, falling in love with Regi, a barmaid. On a trip together to Spain, to hook up with his shady mates, Regi realises that this obsession with storytelling has its downsides, the goalie all too ready to believe the yarns his so-called friends spin. Naw Much of a Talker is a charming, hilarious tour through the goalie's anecdotes. Storytelling is his way of avoiding problems and conflict, his crowning achievement and tragic flaw. Regi concludes that it isn't a woman the goalie needs, but an audience. Inspired by a six month residency in Glasgow, Pedro Lenz harnesses his considerable powers as a performer and oral storyteller in this powerful and unforgettable celebration of the rhythms and musicality of the spoken word.

Quantity and Prosodic Asymmetries in Alemannic
Quantity and Prosodic Asymmetries in Alemannic

Author: Astrid Kraehenmann

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2009-04-07

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 3110197227

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The comprehensive analysis of the segmental and metrical system of the Swiss German dialect of Thurgovian provides a significant contribution to both phonetic and phonological theory. Based on the author's original fieldwork and experimental investigations, it is the first in-depth study of this area, tracing it back also to its Old High German roots, particularly that of the dialect of Notker. Quantity alternations - notably word-initial long/short consonantal alternations - asymmetric neutralization of phonetic-phonological contrasts, stress and weight are most prominent among the theoretical issues on which Thurgovian phonology is brought to bear.

Languages in Contact
Languages in Contact

Author: Uriel Weinreich

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 9027211876

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Based on the author's fieldwork, this title contains a detailed report on language contact in Switzerland in the first half of the 20th century, especially along the French-German linguistic border and between German and Romansh in the canton of Grisons (Graubunden)

The German Way
The German Way

Author: Hyde Flippo

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Published: 1996-06-01

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780844225135

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For All Students Ideal for a variety of courses, this completely up-to-date, alphabetically organized handbook helps students understand how people from German-speaking nations think, do business, and act in their daily lives.