{"product_id":"spelling-trouble-language-ideology-and-the-reform-of-german-orthography","title":"Spelling Trouble? Language, Ideology and the Reform of German Orthography","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1995 an official reform of German orthography was announced and a new set of rules for spelling and punctuation was introduced into schools between 1998 and 2005. These changes, however, unleashed a wave of public protest such that by the beginning of 1996 the question of how the German language should be written had evolved into a major judicial wrangle requiring the intervention of the Federal Constitutional Court.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this book Sally Johnson explores the linguistic, cultural and political issues underpinning the constitutional challenge brought by various individuals and groups against the reform. Drawing on sociolinguistic theories of language ideology, Johnson critically analyses the conflicting views of language that were produced, reproduced and challenged in the course of this dispute. At the same time her book attempts to situate those ideologies, together with the dispute as a whole, within the wider historical context of state involvement in the standardisation of German orthography from the mid-19th century onwards.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eSpelling Trouble? \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003ewill be of interest to speakers and students of German as well as sociolinguists studying language politics, language planning and language ideology.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Channel View Publications Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54225021337944,"sku":"9781853597848","price":36.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781853597848.jpg?v=1769508034","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/spelling-trouble-language-ideology-and-the-reform-of-german-orthography","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}