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oup-usa.org>Title: Language and German Disunity Subtitle: A Sociolinguistic History of East and West in Germany, 1945-2000 Publication Year: 2002 Publisher: Oxford University Press http://www.oup-usa.org/ Book URL: http://www.oup-usa.org/isbn/0198299699.html Author: Patrick Stevenson, University of Southampton Hardback: ISBN: 0198299699, Pages: 288 pp, Price: $ 72.00 Paperback: ISBN: 0198299702, Pages: 288 pp, Price: $ 24.95 Abstract: "This volume is mainly a collection of syntheses of previous research in different areas, and as such it does succeed at providing the reader with an overview of how German and Austrian scholars of sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and discourse analysis analyze the 'German language in the real world'." --American Journal of German Linguistics and Literatures "This volume gives an excellent overview of the German language today. ... I recommend this book to all those with an interest in the German language of the 1990s in the context of social and political changes taking place in the German-speaking countries."--Notes on Linguistics Lingfield(s): Historical Linguistics Sociolinguistics Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue