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The Selective Celebration of Linguistic Diversity: Evidence from the Swiss Language Policy Discourse
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Berthele, Raphael – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
The scholarly praise for linguistic diversity stands in an interesting contrast to the way diversity in standard and non-standard languages is referred to in language policy discourse. Drawing on recent debates in Switzerland, this article focuses on ideologies on linguistic varieties in the German- and Romansh-speaking areas. The two contexts…
Descriptors: German, Language Planning, Standard Spoken Usage, Foreign Countries
Genitive Prepositions Used with the Dative in Spoken German.
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Petig, William E. – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 1997
Presents results of a study of the use of the dative with the genitive prepositions "(an)statt,""trotz,""wahrend" and "wegen" based on two corpora. Notes that a comparison of these two computerized corpora shows that no clear trend exists regarding the increased use of the dative with these prepositions in…
Descriptors: College Students, Computational Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Foreign Countries
Swiss-German versus Standard German: Switzerland's Language Policy and the European Union.
Erdmann, Ursula M. – 1998
A survey investigated the increasing preference for Alemannic Swiss German over standard German in public functions in Switzerland, particularly in light of Switzerland's decision in 1996 not to join the European Union, which suggests an emphasis on national independence. The history of Alemannic Swiss usage and language policy are briefly…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Foreign Countries, German, International Cooperation