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Author:   James M. Stratton ,  Karen V. Beaman (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.540kg
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9781032456591

ISBN 10:   1032456590
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   29 November 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Contents List of Contributors Foreword Sali A. Tagliamonte Acknowledgements Chapter 1 Variationist sociolinguistics: Theoretical and methodological foundations James M. Stratton and Karen V. Beaman SECTION 1: Bridging German dialectology and German variationist sociolinguistics Chapter 2 The social versus the regional: A multivariate analysis of (morpho-)syntactic variation in Austria’s rural dialects Philip C. Vergeiner, Lars Bülow, and Stephan Elspaß Chapter 3 Dialect maintenance in German Alemannic and the role of pro-Alsatian attitudes and orientations Peter Auer, Martin Pfeiffer, Göz Kaufmann, and Julia Breuninger Chapter 4 Sociolinguistic variation in a non-native variety of Swiss German: Romansh migrants in the city of Berne Andrin Büchler SECTION 2: Diving into social-discursive functions Chapter 5 Fei schee: The social meaning of intensifier use in Swabian James M. Stratton and Karen V. Beaman Chapter 6 Subjunctive and diminutive use as politeness strategies in German in Austria: Comparative evidence from sociolinguistic interviews and conversations among friends Katharina Korecky-Kröll and Anja Wittibschlager Chapter 7 A socio-stylistic analysis of variation in support verb constructions in a corpus of spoken German John D. Sundquist and Colleen Neary-Sundquist Chapter 8 Sociolinguistic variation in German: The case of the modal particles halt and eben Oliver Bunk, Antje Sauermann, and Fynn Raphael Dobler SECTION 3: Merging historical and sociolinguistic perspectives Chapter 9 Variation in an Austrian winegrower’s nineteenth-century chronicle Anna D. Havinga and Simon Pickl Chapter 10 Socio-historical data and the need for representative historical corpora Katrin Fuchs AFTERWORD Chapter 11 Looking forward: German-centered variationist sociolinguistics in the 21st century Barbara Soukup Index

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James M. Stratton is an assistant professor of German and Linguistics at Pennsylvania State University. He specializes in language variation and change in Germanic languages, both past and present, with a particular emphasis on lexis and discourse-pragmatics. Karen V. Beaman is a lecturer and post-doctoral fellow in sociolinguistics at the University of Tubingen, Germany. Her research interests concern language variation, coherence, and change, with particular focus on how factors of identity, mobility, and social networks affect change.

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