Vom Ausruf zum Aushang. Die Kommunikationsform Öffentliche Bekanntmachung in Luxemburg (1795–1920): Eine text- und systemlinguistische Analyse

This article presents findings of the binational project “Language Standardization in Diversity: The case of German in Luxembourg (1795–1920)”. Point of departure is the general assumption that language contact and multilingualism figure prominently in language change (Heine and Kuteva 2005). However, their specific impact on language standardization understood as special type of language change (Mattheier, 1998) has scarcely been studied. This is also particularly valid for the history of text genres which have been described as the virtual ‘switch points’ between the history of language and... Mehr ...