Stephan Elspass
List of John Benjamins publications for which Stephan Elspass plays a role.
2025 Chapter 2. Pluriareal languages and the case of German Pluricentricity and Pluriareality: Dialects, Variation, and Standards, Meer, Philipp and Ryan Durgasingh (eds.), pp. 15–44 | Chapter
In the sociolinguistic discourse on standard language varieties, linguists working on standard varieties in contiguous language areas, such as in the German-speaking countries, have proposed and expanded the model of pluriareality to account for perceived deficiencies in the increasingly… read more
2021 Areal microvariation in German-speaking urban areas (Ruhr Area, Berlin, and Vienna) Urban Matters: Current approaches in variationist sociolinguistics, Ziegler, Arne, Stefanie Edler and Georg Oberdorfer (eds.), pp. 227–252 | Chapter
This chapter focuses on spatial and social variation in the colloquial everyday speech of three German-speaking urban areas. The basic question is whether geographical variation (the kind that is commonly observed in studies on dialect variation in large areas) is detectable in the reported… read more
2018 ‘From above’, ‘from below’, and regionally balanced: Towards a new corpus of nineteenth-century German Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change, Whitt, Richard J. (ed.), pp. 19–40 | Chapter
In this chapter, we report on an ongoing project on a corpus of German in the long nineteenth century. Similar to other historical corpora of German (and unlike existing corpora for the nineteenth century), the Nineteenth-Century German Corpus will focus on regional variation. In addition, it will… read more
2014 Prescriptive norms and norms of usage in nineteenth-century German Norms and Usage in Language History, 1600–1900: A sociolinguistic and comparative perspective, Rutten, Gijsbert, Rik Vosters and Wim Vandenbussche (eds.), pp. 303–320 | Article
The nineteenth century has attracted considerable interest in German historical (socio)linguistics over the last twenty-five years, as it is considered to be the century in which the ‘roots’ of present-day German can be found. A great deal of the research literature has been devoted to the rise of… read more
2012 Between linguistic creativity and formulaic restriction: Cross-linguistic perspectives on nineteenth-century lower class writers’ private letters Letter Writing in Late Modern Europe, Dossena, Marina and Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti (eds.), pp. 45–64 | Article
This paper is concerned with the correspondence of nineteenth-century non-professional writers, and I particularly intend to look at private letters written by emigrants and soldiers from the lower and lower middle ranks of society. These writers sent letters to convey information, make appeals, or… read more
2011 Althochdeutsche Glossen als Quellen einer Sprachgeschichte ''von unten'' NOWELE Volume 62/63 (October 2011): Language and literacy in early Scandinavia and beyond, Schulte, Michael and Robert Nedoma (eds.), pp. 249–283 | Article
2002 3. Phraseological units in parliamentary discourse Politics as Text and Talk: Analytic approaches to political discourse, Chilton, Paul and Christina Schäffner (eds.), pp. 81–110 | Article
2002 Standard German in the 19th century? (Counter-) evidence from the private correspondence of ‘ordinary people’ Standardization: Studies from the Germanic languages, Linn, Andrew R. and Nicola McLelland (eds.), pp. 43–65 | Article