Sprachnormen und Mentalitäten

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The language-norm debate in the last third of the 18th century did not revolve solely around the linguistic question "What is High German?" Rather, it was preformed and organized by mentalities, general schemata of thought and evaluation. By collapsing a number of different social-constructivist theories (sociology of knowledge, cultural memory, discourse analysis), the study develops a model of the genesis of language awareness that draws on deep-semantic analyses to enable us to read the language-norm debate as a discourse on national identity inspired by cultural criticism.

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"JOACHIM SCHARLOTH hat eine interessante, gut geschriebene, über weite Strecken ausgezeichnete Untersuchung vorgelegt, die die Möglichkeiten einer modernen, über die reine Systemgeschichte hinausgehenden Sprachgeschichtsforschung aufs Beste illustriert."
Andreas Gardt in: Zeitschrift für dialektologie und Linguistik 1/2009

"Scharloths Studie überzeugt zweifelsohne durch die Fülle und die Vielseitigkeit des ausgewerteten Materials."
Stefaniya Ptashnyk in: Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft 1/2009