Language and Social Change in Central Europe: Discourses on Policy, Identity and the German Language

by Patrick Stevenson and Jenny Carl

This book explores the dynamics of language and social change in central Europe in the context of the end of the Cold War and eastern expansion of the European Union. One outcome of the profound social transformations in central Europe since the Second World War has been the reshaping of the relationship between particular languages and linguistic varieties, especially between 'national' languages and regional or ethnic minority languages. Previous...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 074863598X
• ISBN13: 9780748635986
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"