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Die Entwicklung des Deutschen zur Schrift- und Standardsprache
Elter, Irmgard
2002
Abstract
The author analyses the processes that, in the passage from the Frühneuhochdeutsch and the Neuhochdeutsch phase, stand at the basis of the fixation of German as a written language and of its normalisation of a standard language. The emancipation from the supremacy of Latin is here described in its diachronic and diatopic aspects, with a special attention to the links between the growing independence of German and the formation of a national culture. The importance of Martin Luther's translation of the Bible is put in relation with the overstepping of regional varieties/vernaculars, and with the fixation of a common language characterised by a high level of diastratic prevalence.
Series
Prospero. Rivista di Letterature Straniere, Comparatistica e Studi Culturali
IX (2002)
Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Irmgard Elter, " Die Entwicklung des Deutschen zur Schrift- und Standardsprache", in: Prospero. Rivista di Letterature Straniere, Comparatistica e Studi Culturali, IX (2002), pp. 143-156
Languages
de
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