Generating Traces in the History of the World is a synthesis of Monsignor Luigi Giussani's reflection on the Christian experience. His exploration of Christianity as an unforeseen and unforeseeable event in which the mystery became a man reveals how, by acknowledging this fact, an individual is simultaneously able to use reason and be moved by affection.

Product Description: The contributors to Language Ideologies, Policies and Practices investigate the workings of language ideologies in relation to other social processes in a globalizing world. They explore in detail the specific ways in which language ideologies underpin language policy and the relationship between public policies and individual practices...read more

Product Description: One of the most pressing issues in contemporary European societies is the need to promote integration and social inclusion in the context of rapidly increasing migration. A particular challenge confronting national governments is how to accommodate speakers of an ever-increasing number of languages within what in most cases are still perceived as monolingual indigenous populations...read more

Product Description: As a young priest, Luigi Giussani was troubled by Catholicism's inability to effectively deal with secularism or laicism. In 1954 he began to develop a vision of faith rooted in experience. His ideas resonated with students and led to the birth of the Gioventù Studentesca (Student Youth) movement...read more

Product Description: As a young priest, Luigi Giussani was troubled by Catholicism's inability to effectively deal with secularism or laicism. In 1954 he began to develop a vision of faith rooted in experience. His ideas resonated with students and led to the birth of the Gioventù Studentesca (Student Youth) movement...read more

This book will be an introduction and overview of the issues surrounding the relationship between language and national identity.

Product Description: This book investigates the history of national disunity in Germany since the end of the Second World War from a linguistic perspective: what was the role of language in the ideological conflicts of the Cold War and in the difficult process of rebuilding the German nation after 1990? In the first part of the book, Patrick Stevenson explores the ways in which the idea of 'the national language' contributed to the political tensions between the two German states and to the different social experiences of their citizens...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book explores the much contested concept of Germanness from a contemporary sociolinguistic perspective, tracing continuities and discontinuities in the development of Germany as a speech community from the formal division in the aftermath of the Second World War to the uncomfortable and problematic unity of the present day...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The "New Germany" has been aptly described as "unified but not united." In spite of political and economic unification in 1990, the social divisions between east and west Germans are as wide as ever. The contributors to this book explore the cultural and linguistic reasons for this continuing disharmony, drawing on and analyzing a wide range of evidence--from television news, dramas and talk shows, newspapers, novels, and cabaret to oral histories and job interviews...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Die Autoren stellen die soziolinguistische Problematik der Gegenwartssprache in ihrer vollen Komplexität anschaulich dar. Darüber hinaus nehmen sie die Forschungsansätze kritisch unter die Lupe. Themenschwerpunkte sind die historischen Grundlagen der Entwicklung einer deutschen Standardsprache, die regionale und soziale Verteilung der verschiedenen Sprachformen im gegenwärtigen Deutsch, die Herausbildung eines sprachlichen Kontinuums zwischen Dialekt und Standardsprache, Mehrsprachigkeit in Deutschland und der Schweiz und Sprachkontakt...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Language has always been a major marker of cultural identity in the German-speaking world, and the reunification of Germany, with its dramatic political and cultural consequences, has led to an upsurge of interest in contemporary German. In this collection of essays, German linguists consider a wide range of topics, including language change, language in political discourse, language in Berlin after the wall, language and gender, the speech styles of youth subcultures, and language and television.

Product Description: This accessible textbook offers students the opportunity to explore for themselves a wide range of sociolinguistic issues relating to the German language and its role in societies around the world. It is written for undergraduate students who have a sound practical knowledge of German but who have little or no knowledge of linguistics or sociolinguistics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book, which examines the interrelations of language and society in German-speaking countries, is the most detailed account of German sociolinguistics to appear in English. Topics covered include the history and development of the German language, German as a minority language, traditional dialects, the influence of English on German, and German in the East and West...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)