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Publication details [#28065]

Stevenson, Patrick. 1995. Gegenwartsbewältigung: Coming to terms with the present in Germany. Multilingua 14 (1) : 39–59.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

historical explanation | language and culture | language change | linguistics

Language as a subject

German

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0167-8507

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/MULT/html

Annotation

This paper comments on difficulties related to the linguistic accomodation to the new German realities in the aftermath of the 1989 change and the demise of the GDR, both on the level of language use by and for the public.