Past, Present and Future of a Language Border: Germanic-Romance Encounters in the Low Countries

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2015

Past, Present and Future of a Language Border

Germanic-Romance Encounters in the Low Countries

Edited by: Catharina Peersman , Gijsbert Rutten and Rik Vosters

Volume 1 in the series Language and Social Life [LSL]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614514152

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About this book

This volume revisits the issue of language contact and conflict in the Low Countries across space and time. The contributions deal with important sites of Germanic-Romance contact along the different language borders, covering languages such as French, Dutch, German, and Luxembourgish. This first monograph in English on the topic broadens our understanding of current-day issues by integrating a historical perspective, showing how language contact and conflict operated from the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, the 18th and 19th centuries, and into the 20th and 21st centuries.

Author / Editor information

Catharina Peersman, University of Sheffield, UK; Gijsbert Rutten, Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands; Rik Vosters, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.

Reviews

"This volume is sure to be of the utmost interest to scholars of sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and, of course, historical sociolinguistics, as well as to people working on the history of Dutch, French, Luxembourgish or German. The insightful collection of articles makes a substantial contribution to sociolinguistic theory, due to the broad scope of high-quality work included, and the excellent epilogue that provides a succinct summary of how historical data can shed new light on our understanding of language contact, language conflict and language borders."
James Hawkey in: Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics 4.2 (2018), 295-298

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Author information Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	viii
Chapter 1. Romance–Germanic encounters along the language border: past, present and future Catharina Peersman, Gijsbert Rutten and Rik Vosters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Theoretical and historical overview
Chapter 2. The dimensions of language conflict: an exploration Jeroen Darquennes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Chapter 3. Trilingual tug-o’-war: language border fluctuations in the Low Countries Roland Willemyns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Chapter 4. Standard language ideology and the history of Romance–Germanic encounters Ulrike Vogl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Part II: The Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period
Chapter 5. Constructing identity: language and identity in the narration of the Franco-Flemish conflict (1297–1305) Catharina Peersman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Chapter 6. Multilingualism and the challenge of frenchification in the early modern Dutch Republic Willem Frijhoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Part III: The 18^th and 19^th centuries
Chapter 7. Frenchification in discourse and practice: loan morphology in Dutch private letters of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Gijsbert Rutten, Rik Vosters and Marijke van der Wal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Chapter 8. The use of languages in Maastricht in the nineteenth century: the press and family archives M. C. A. Kessels-van der Heijde Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Part IV: The 20^th and 21^st centuries
Chapter 9. Language conflict in the educational realm: Eupen-Malmedy in the interbellum period (1920–1940) Magali Boemer and Jeroen Darquennes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Chapter 10. Multilingual education and the politics of language in Luxembourg Kristine Horner and Jean-Jacques Weber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Chapter 11. In contact and/or in conflict? Ethno-cultural markers, language and schooling in post-war Brussels Rudi Janssens and Joost Vaesen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Epilogue
Chapter 12. Conceptualising “language borders”, “language contact” and “language conflict” Richard J. Watts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Sociolinguists, Historical Linguists, and Researchers in Language Contact and Conflict.
Pages
- Front matter: 11
- Main content: 319
Keywords: Germanic Languages; Romance Languages; Language Contact; Sociolinguistics; Historical Sociolinguistics

eBook

Published: July 24, 2015
ISBN: 9781614514152

Hardcover

Published: July 20, 2015
ISBN: 9781614515838