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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction How to Use this Book | |
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| German: Language, People, Place | |
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| Das Wort Deutsch | |
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| Language, State and Nation | |
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| Delimiting the Language | |
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| What Exactly is `German'? Identifying `German-speakers' | |
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| The German-Speaking Countries | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| German in Contact With Other Languages | |
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| Multinational Speech Communities | |
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| Switzerland and Luxembourg | |
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| Perceptions of Ethnolinguistic Difference | |
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| Managing Conflict | |
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| Outcomes of Contact | |
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| Language Maintenance and Language Shift | |
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| Language Choice | |
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| The Speech Behaviour of Individuals | |
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| German as an International Language | |
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| Communicating Across Languages | |
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| Languages as Commodities | |
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| Measuring the Value of the German Language | |
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| The German Language in Europe | |
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| Exploring Linguistic Variation | |
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| Regional Variation in Spoken German | |
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| The Nature of Regional Variation in German | |
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| Identifying German Dialects | |
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| Distinctive Features of German Dialects | |
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| Practical Tasks | |
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| Written German | |
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| Spoken German | |
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| Classifying Texts | |
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| Constraints on the Production of Written and Spoken Texts | |
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| Some Fundamental Contrasts in the Forms of Written and Spoken German | |
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| Blurring the Boundaries in Modern German | |
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| What do we mean by `right' and `wrong'? | |
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| Public language | |
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| Textual Patterns, Styles and Registers | |
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| Addressing the Public | |
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| Speaking the News | |
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| Public Speaking | |
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| Communicative Conventions and Social Relations | |
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| Communicative (In)competence | |
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| Politeness Routines | |
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| The Power of the Personal Pronoun | |
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| Language and Gender | |
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| The Problem of Reference | |
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| Concepts of Gender | |
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| Generic Forms | |
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| Neutralisation and Sprachtherapie | |
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| Total Feminisierung | |
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| Multicultural Society and Intercultural Encounters | |
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| Multilingualism in Germany | |
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| Forms of Non-native German | |
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| The Acquisition Process | |
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| Intercultural Encounters | |
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| Current Issues: Language and `Germanness' | |
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| Sprachkultur | |
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| Preserving the Cultural Heritage | |
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| Language and National culture | |
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| Authority in Language | |
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| Duden as a National Institution | |
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| The Rechtschreibreform Saga | |
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| Public Debates on Rechtschreibreform | |
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| Sprachkritik | |
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| Public Attitudes Towards Language Use | |
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| The Good Old Days | |
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| Spraachverfall | |
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| Vox Pop | |
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| Sprachverfall and Public Opinion | |
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| Engleutsch | |
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| (Sprach)kulturpessimismus | |
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| Sprachwende | |
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| Language Change as Social Change | |
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| East Meets West | |
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| Ritual Communication | |
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| Official Language and Everyday Life in the GDR | |
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| Kultur des Missverstandnisses | |
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| Prospects | |
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| Index of Terms | |
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| Bibliography | |