
A History of the German Language Through Texts
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Written in a lively and accessible style, the book looks at the history of German through a wide range of texts, from medical, legal and scientific writing to literature, everyday newspapers and adverts. All texts are translated and accompanied by commentaries. The book also offers a glossary of technical terms and abbreviations, a summary of the main changes in each historical period, a guide to reference material, and suggestions for further reading.
A History of the German Language Through Texts is essential reading for students of German, Linguistics or Philology.
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- Cover
- A History of the German Language through Texts
- Copyright
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Phonetic symbols and abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Pre-textual German: From Indo-European to West Germanic
- I Old High German (c.750-c.1050)
- 3 The Lord's Prayer: Major dialects of the OHG period and Old English
- 4 Heroic Lay: Das Hildebrandslied
- 5 Legal code: Lex Salica
- 6 Political treaty: The Strasburg Oaths
- 7 Gospel harmony: Otfrid von Weissenburg's Evangelienbuch
- 8 Political praise poem: The Ludwigslied
- 9 Phrasebook: The Paris Conversations
- 10 History: Notker of St Gallen's prologue to his Boethius translation
- II Middle High German (c.1050-c.1350)
- 11 Williram of Ebersberg: Commentary to the Song of Songs
- 12 Courtly romance: Hartmann von Aue's Iwein
- 13 French influence: Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan
- 14 Legal Documents: Oath for Jews and Vienna Fief Transfer
- 15 Legal code: Der Sachsenspiegel
- 16 Mysticism: Mechthild von Magdeburg - Das fließende Licht der Gottheit
- 17 Medicine: Breslauer Arzneibuch
- III Early New High German (c.1350-c.1700)
- 18 Humanism and linguistic levelling: Niklas von Wyle's Translatzen
- 19 Low German and the language of business: The Hanseatic League
- 20 Language use for special purposes: Cookery recipes 1350-1600
- 21 Language use in the early mass media: Reformation pamphlets
- 22 Bible translation: Martin Luther
- 23 Purism in the seventeenth century: Johann Rist
- 24 Dialect: Andreas Gryphius's Die Geliebte Dornrose
- IV New High German (c.1700-c.1945)
- 25 'Natural style': Letters and Moral Weeklies
- 26 J.W. Goethe: Literature, natural sciences and administration
- 27 Political pamphlets: Berlin 1848
- 28 Lexicography and nationalism: Jacob Grimm's Vorrede zum Deutschen Wörterbuch
- 29 Industrialization, technology and language: Die Marmorirkunst and Ferdinand Lassalle
- 30 Elements of everyday language use: Letters and letter-writing manuals
- 31 Scientific prose in the nineteenth century: Rudolf Virchow
- 32 National Socialism: Fritz Lenz's Die Familie im Dienst der Rassenhygiene
- V Contemporary German (c.1945-c.2000)
- 33 The language of the GDR: Texts on the erection and fall of the Berlin Wall
- 34 The public sphere: Discourse strategies and lexical development
- 35 English influence: Jil Sander and the Verein Deutsche Sprache
- 36 Newspapers: Language and text organization in the nineteenth century and twentieth century
- 37 Jugendsprache: Katz und Goldt and chatrooms
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
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