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Lay Linguistics and School Teaching
An Empirical Sociolinguistic Study in the Moselle-Franconian Dialect Area
by Melanie M Wagner
Speakers of German, like the speakers of most other standardized dialects, are familiar with the
concept of “bad” or incorrect language use. This study investigates the status of different language
varieties in schools in the Moselle-Franconian dialect area. It aims to answer the following questions:
How do lay people perceive linguistic norms? How do their knowledge and value judgments
differ from those of the codifiers and/or academic linguists? Data collected from teachers and pupils
are analyzed to provide information about non-linguists’ perceptions of standard norms and stigmatized
forms and the degree of agreement with the codified norms.
197p, 1 b/w illus, 8 tbls, paperback, 9783515093231, $66.00(s), Franz Steiner Verlag, May 2009,
Beihefte der Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik 136.
The Beloved Mothertongue
Ethnolinguistic Nationalism in Small
Nations – Inventories and Reflections
edited by Petra Broomans,
Goffe Jensma, Hans Vandevoorde
and Marten van Ginderachter
During the long 19th century, the Herderian
motto that language reflects the soul of the nation
proved to be a pivotal agent in forming ethnicities,
nations and national territories as well
as in excluding linguistic minorities. In the 2005,
the Groningen Research School for the Study of the Humanities hosted a workshop
on the subject of ethnolinguistic nationalism in the Netherlands, Flanders and the
Scandinavian countries. This volume of contributions opens with introductory and
theoretical surveys on the theme of nationalism, followed by critical surveys of each
of the above-mentioned regions and nations.
228p, hardback, 9789042921504, $70.00, Peeters Publishers, December 2008,
Groningen Studies in Cultural Change 33.
Encyclopédie des Pygmées Aka II
Dictionnaire ethnographique Aka–Français. Fasc. 9, G-NG-H
edited by J M C Thomas, S Bahuchet, A Epelboin and S Fürniss
This volume is part of a series dedicated to the Aka pygmees of Central Africa. It
comprises the first part of a multidisciplinary study oriented towards the linguistic
approach of different aspects of social reality. The volume assembles research
on this pygmean population and its natural and human milieu by researchers of
various disciplines: linguistics, ethnology, ethnolinguistics, ethnosciences, ecology,
and ethnomusicology. French text.
219p, paperback, 9789042920996, $79.00, Peeters Publishers, December 2008,
Société d’Études Linguistiques et Anthropologiques de France 447.
Lyang Lu
One Thousand and One Proverbs,
Idioms and Sayings in Mushere
(N. Nigeria)
by Herrmann Jungraithmayr
and Philibus I Diyakal
The proverbs and idioms in this volume were
translated into English in three documented
stages: word-by-word, literal translation,
and free translation. They are accompanied by a short grammar, as well as a dictionary:
Mushere–English / English–Mushere, containing around 1,000 lexemes.
326p, 1 b/w illus, hardback, 9783515092319, $79.00(s), Franz Steiner Verlag,
December 2008, Schriften der Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft an der Johann
Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main 22.
Subordination, dépendance et parataxe
dans les langues africaines
edited by B Caron
This volume collects ten studies on subordinate clauses, dependent clauses and
parataxis in African languages. French text.
200p, paperback, 9789042921665, $87.00, Peeters Publishers, December 2008,
Société d’Études Linguistiques et Anthropologiques de France 449,
Afrique et Langage 12.
Les constructions causatives en malgache
by H Fugier
A study on causative constructions in Malagasy language, taking into consideration
texts from ancient to modern times. French text.
132p, paperback, 9789042921740, $22.00, Peeters Publishers, December 2009,
Bibliothèque des Cahiers de l’Institut de Linguistique de Louvain 122.
The David Brown Book Company – Fall 2009