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Im Mittelpunkt des Bandes steht der Wandel des Niederdeutschen und der regionalen Umgangssprache in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Er vereint linguistische Beiträge, die Aspekte der Entwicklung und Struktur sowie des Gebrauchs regionaler Sprachformen in diesem Bundesland in den Blick nehmen. Der Fokus der Darstellungen liegt auf jüngeren und aktuellen Entwicklungen. Zugleich beziehen die Beiträge die Vorgeschichte der gegenwärtigen Sprachverhältnisse seit dem 19. Jahrhundert ein. Ein eigener Themenblock ist der institutionellen Vermittlung und Förderung des Niederdeutschen gewidmet. Damit trägt der Band der Tatsache Rechnung, dass sich die Vermittlung des Niederdeutschen heute zunehmend auf Bildungsinstitutionen verlagert und zum Gegenstand amtlicher Sprachpolitik geworden ist.

Colloquial language.

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The use of Latin for conversation and ex tempore discourse was a significant element in the culture of learned people in the humanist age and the early modern era. This book explores that phenomenon and the considerable amount of evidence pertaining to it in the primary sources written in the period. The author takes into account the use of spoken Latin both inside and outside the academic world. Examining disputes over pronunciation and different views about ex tempore eloquence among Latin writers active in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the author shows that these "conversations" are not unrelated to much better known discussions and debates about the nature of Latin prose style and eloquence in an age when Latin was no one's native language. The book thus reveals that understanding the role of conversation and ex tempore expression in Latin helps us to understand the early modern phenomenon of Neo-Latin in general. All texts in this volume are in Latin--

Latin language, Colloquial --- Colloquial Latin --- Latin language --- Colloquial language --- Latin language, Vulgar --- History. --- Spoken Latin

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Who's Swearing Now? represents an investigation of how people actually swear, illustrated by a collection of over 500 spontaneous swearing utterances along with their social and linguistic contexts. The book features a focus on the use of eight swear words: ass, bitch, cunt, damn, dick, fuck, hell, shit and their possible inflections or derivations, e.g., asshole or motherfucker, offering a solution to the controversial issue of defining swear words and swearing by limiting the investigation ...

Swearing --- Slang --- Argot --- Colloquial language --- Cant --- Obscene words --- Profanity --- Social aspects. --- English language Slang --- English language

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In the classical period, conversation referred to real conversations, conducted in the leisure time of noble men, and concerned with indefinite philosophical topics. Christianity inflected conversation with universal aspirations during the medieval centuries and the ars dictaminis, the art of letter writing, increased the importance of this written analogue of conversation. The Renaissance humanists from Petrarch onward further transformed conversation, and its genre analogues of dialogue and letter, by transforming it into a metaphor of increasing scope. This expanded realm of humanist conversation bifurcated in Renaissance and early modern Europe. The Concept of Conversation traces the way the rise of conversation spread out from the history of rhetoric to include the histories of friendship, the court and the salon, the Republic of Letters, periodical press and women. It revises Jürgen Habermas' history of the emergence of the rational speech of the public sphere as the history of the emergence of rational conversation and puts the emergence of women's speech at the centre of the intellectual history of early modern Europe--

Conversation --- Conversation. --- Talking --- Colloquial language --- Etiquette --- Oral communication --- History. --- History of civilization

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Economics --- Conversation. --- Psychological aspects. --- Colloquial language --- Etiquette --- Oral communication --- Behavioral economics --- Behavioural economics