German Studies Review · 1993 · 18 citations · 0 references
Language StudiesGermanLinguisticsDiscourse AnalysisLinguistic AnthropologySociolinguisticsEthnolinguistic VariationLanguage VariationLexical VariationPhonological VariationSociolinguistic VariationSyntactic VariationSociolect VariationSociolectal VariationSociopragmatic VariationVariation In Discourse
1. Introduction 2. The historical background 3. The German tradition of dialectology 4. Language and society: urban speech, urbanization and 'new dialectology' 5. Sociolinguistic variation and the continuum of colloquial speech 6. Standard and non-standard German: their role in society 7. Language in multilingual societies: the Federal Republic and Switzerland 8. Contact and conflict 9. Conclusions and prospects.