Table of Contents

Patrick Stevenson: The Study of Real Language: Observing the Observers
Ulrich Ammon: To What Extent is German an International Language?
Florian Coulmas: Germanness: Language and Nation
Wolfgang Werner Sauer and Helmut Glück: Norms and Reforms
Helmut Glück and Wolfgang Werner Sauer: Directions of Change in Contemporary German
Helmut Schönfeld and Peter Schlobinski: After the Wall: Social Change and Linguistic Variation in Berlin
Norbert Dittmar: Theories of Sociolinguistic Variation in the German Context
Martina Rost-Roth: Language in Intercultural Communication
Ruth Wodak: Critical Linguistics and the Study of Institutional Communication
Siegfried Jäger: Political Discourse: The Language of Right and Left in Germany
Sylvia Moosmüller: Evaluation of Language use in Public Discourse: Language Attitudes in Austria
Marlis Hellinger: Language and Gender
Peter Schlobinski: Jugendsprachen: Speech Styles of Youth Subcultures
Werner Holly: Language and Television

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Reviews

This volume fills a void in up-to-date English-language information on German linguistics. Highly recommended for all college and university collections, as well as public libraries. Choice The book not only gives a detailed account of the way in which the forms of the German language ... seem to be changing ... but is also a welcome introduction to different approaches to the study of the German language in use ... the quality of the translations is very good ... I believe that, with this volume, Stevenson will once again do what Stephen Barbour and he did so well in Variation in German ... that is, stimulate interest in German (socio)linguistics among non-German-speakers. Winifred V. Davies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, MLR, 92.1, 1997