Péter Maitz
List of John Benjamins publications for which Péter Maitz plays a role.
Articles
2017 Documenting Unserdeutsch: Reversing colonial amnesia Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 32:2, pp. 365–397 | Article
Unserdeutsch, also known as Rabaul Creole German, is the only known German-lexifier creole. This critically endangered language has its origins in an orphanage in German New Guinea for mixed-race children, where Standard German was taught by mission personnel. Unserdeutsch was creolised in one… read more
2008 Linguistic nationalism in nineteenth-century Hungary: Reconstructing a linguistic ideology Journal of Historical Pragmatics 9:1, pp. 20–47 | Article
Linguistic nationalism was a decisive linguistic ideology all through the nineteenth century. Consequently, by its very nature, it determined thinking about language throughout the entire period, and thus, linguistic behavior, as well. Based on metalinguistic data, this paper attempts to… read more