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      The Position of the German Language in the World
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      The Position of the German Language in the World

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      The Position of the German Language in the World book

      ByUlrich Ammon, David Charlston
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2019
      eBook Published 15 September 2019
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315157870
      Pages 672
      eBook ISBN 9781315157870
      Subjects Language & Literature
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      Ammon, U. (2019). The Position of the German Language in the World (D. Charlston, Trans.; 1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315157870

      ABSTRACT

      The Position of the German Language in the World focuses on the global position of German and the factors which work towards sustaining its use and utility for international communication.

      From the perspective of the global language constellation, the detailed data analysis of this substantial research project depicts German as an example of a second-rank language. The book also provides a model for analysis and description of international languages other than English. It offers a framework for strengthening the position of languages such as Arabic, Chinese, French, Portuguese, Spanish and others and for countering exaggerated claims about the global monopoly position of English. This comprehensive handbook of the state of the German language in the world was originally published in 2015 by Walter de Gruyter in German and has been critically acclaimed.

      Suitable for scholars and researchers of the German language, the handbook shows in detail how intricately and thoroughly German and other second-rank languages are tied up with a great number of societies and how these statistics support or weaken the languages’ functions and maintenance.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter A|49 pages

      The German language between national interests and global communication

      Terminology and theory

      chapter B|24 pages

      “German language”, “German-language territory”

      What these terms include and exclude, and the question of a German ethnic group

      chapter C|18 pages

      Speaker numbers and economic strength of German

      chapter D|25 pages

      German as the official language of state

      chapter E|64 pages

      German as a minority language, but not an official language of state

      chapter F|55 pages

      German in international business communication

      chapter G|89 pages

      German for international scientific and academic communication

      chapter H|69 pages

      German in diplomacy and the European Union (EU)

      chapter I|42 pages

      German in media and language arts outside the German-language territory

      chapter J|74 pages

      German as a foreign language (GFL) outside the German official-language territory

      chapter K|41 pages

      Policies for promoting the German language in the world

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