Language Ideology and Language Change in Early Modern German : A sociolinguistic study of the consonantal system of Nuremberg.
Title:
Language Ideology and Language Change in Early Modern German : A sociolinguistic study of the consonantal system of Nuremberg.
Author:
Lippi-Green, Rosina L.
ISBN:
9789027276704
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1 online resource (164 pages)
Series:
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory
Contents:
LANGUAGE IDEOLOGY AND LANGUAGE CHANGE IN EARLY MODERN GERMAN -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- PREFACE -- Table of contents -- LIST OF TABLES -- LIST OF FIGURES -- CHAPTER 1. LANGUAGE STANDARDIZATIONIN IDEOLOGICAL CONTEXT -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Standardization -- 1.3 Ideology and Standardization -- 1.4 Sociolinguistic Theory -- 1.5 Communication Network Theory -- 1.6 The Parameters of Investigation -- CHAPTER 2. NUREMBERG AND ITS LANGUAGE -- 2.1 Nuremberg in the 16th Century -- 2.2 Nuremberg's Language Repertoire -- 2.3 Communication Networks -- 2.4 Education -- 2.5 Matters of Style and the Database -- 2.6 The Writers -- 2.6.1 Willibald Pirkheimer. -- 2.6.2 Albrecht Dürer. -- 2.6.3 Lazarus Spengler. -- 2.6.4 Christoph Scheurl. -- 2.6.5 Hans Sachs. -- 2.7 Quantification of Social Identity -- CHAPTER 3. THE DISTRIBUTION OF VARIABLE CONSONANT SETS -- 3.1 The Texts -- 3.2 The Data -- 3.3 Consonant Sets -- 3.3.1 Predicted . -- 3.3.2 Predicted . -- 3.3.3 Predicted . -- 3.3.4 Predicted . -- 3.4 Summary -- CHAPTER 4. SOCIAL IDENTITY, STYLISTIC FACTORSAND ORTHOGRAPHIC CONGRUITY -- 4.1 Conformity and Social Identity -- 4.2 Congruity and 'Die Binnendeutsche Konsonantenschwächung' -- 4.3 Network Integration and Orthographic Congruity -- 4.4 The Relationship between Text and Language -- CHAPTER 5. STATISTICAL MODELS OF NUREMBERG'SCONSONANTAL VARIATION -- 5.1 Statistical Models of Variation -- 5.2 A Variation Model for Predicted -- 5.3 Models of Variation -- CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX A DEMOGRAPHIC DATA -- APPENDIX B CODING GUIDELINES -- B.1 Language Internal Constraints -- B.2 Stylistic Constraints -- B.3 Social Constraints -- APPENDIX C PRIMARY SOURCE LIST -- Albrecht Dürer -- Hans Sachs -- Willibald Pirckheimer -- Lazarus Spengler -- Christopf Scheurl -- APPENDIX D DATA -- A: Raw Data.
1) All Observations: Language Internal Distributions -- 2) All Observations: Selected Social and Stylistic Distributions -- B: Refined Data Set -- 1) Language Internal Distributions -- 2) Social and Stylistic Distributions -- 2a) Social Distributions -- 2b) Topic Distributions -- 2c) Stylistic Distributions -- REFERENCES -- A. Primary Sources -- B. Secondary Sources -- INDEX.
Abstract:
This quantitative study, based on a computerized corpus of texts written by five men in early 16th-century Nuremberg, employs multivariate GLM statistical procedures to analyze the way linguistic, social and stylistic factors work individually and in interaction to influence variation observed in the texts. Over 70,000 tokens of variable consonants sets were analyzed, using network analysis as an alternate approach to quantification of relevant social identities, which allowed focus on individual behavior without discarding the analysis of group behaviors.The study provides evidence that consonantal variation in early modern written texts is not random. To a surprising degree, it is possible to account for the structured heterogeneity in the writings studied by using methodologies established for spoken language in modern day communities. Like spoken languages, variation precedes change in the written language, and again like spoken language, not all variation is followed by change. That is, while variation cannot always be demonstrated to be structured, much of it is clearly and reliably attributable to the same complex of linguistic, social and stylistic factors which shape the structured heterogeneity of spoken languages of our own time. Of particular importance is the quantification of an individual's relationship to an emerging ideology of language standardization, and the way that relationship interacts with written language variation.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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