Publications

Publication details [#46729]

Maitz, Péter. 2005. Sozialpsychologie des Sprachverhaltens. Der deutsch-ungarische Sprachkonflikt in der Habsburgermonarchie. [Social Psychology of Language Behaviour. The German-Hungarian language conflict in the Habsburg monarchy.] (Reihe Germanistische Linguistik 256). De Gruyter. X+228 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

German

Keywords

code-switching | language attitude | language maintenance | social psychology | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

German | Hungarian

Annotation

This study deals with language maintenance and code-switching in terms of linguistic behaviours. It tries to establish whether the theory of planned behaviour is able to resolve the sociolinguistic problem of language behaviour, in casu with reference to the German-speaking community in Hungary in the last third of the 19th century.