Is there a European language history?

The thoughts on a language history within a European context sketched out here represent an attempt to extend the concepts of regional and particularly national language history by adding a third dimension: transnational language history in Europe. After a few general thoughts on the extended area o...

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Main Author: Mattheier, Klaus J. (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: 2010
In: Multilingua
Year: 2010, Volume: 29, Issue: 3-4, Pages: 353-360
ISSN:1613-3684
DOI:10.1515/mult.2010.017
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Author Notes:Klaus J. Mattheier
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Summary:The thoughts on a language history within a European context sketched out here represent an attempt to extend the concepts of regional and particularly national language history by adding a third dimension: transnational language history in Europe. After a few general thoughts on the extended area of research, in which so-called external language history is linked to historical pragmatics and particularly to historical sociolinguistics, four research paradigms are outlined: the comparative sociolinguistic approach, the concept of the cycle of communication, the language contact approach and the socio-historical and cultural-historical approach.
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ISSN:1613-3684
DOI:10.1515/mult.2010.017