Language description, prescription and usage in seventeenth-century German
Year: 2014
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: This chapter examines the relationship between language prescription and language use in seventeenth-century German, reporting on a corpus investigation of the influence (or otherwise) of the leading grammarian Justus Georg Schottelius (1612–1676) on language usage. Drawing on a variety of corpora – a specially compiled corpus of writings by so-called Sprachhelden and Sprachverderber (cf. Jones 2000), the Bonn Early New High German corpus and the newly available GerManC corpus – the study finds only very limited, but still noteworthy, evidence of influence, including possible evidence of diffusion first to elite writers, then to wider usage.
DOI: 10.1075/ahs.3.11lel
Author: Nicola McLelland
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2478043648