Past, Present and Future of a Language Border : : Germanic-Romance Encounters in the Low Countries / / ed. by Catharina Peersman, Gijsbert Rutten, Rik Vosters.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Boemer, Magali,; Darquennes, Jeroen,; Frijhoff, Willem,; Heijde, M. C. A. Kessels-van der,; Horner, Kristine,; Janssens, Rudi,; Peersman, Catharina,; Rutten, Gijsbert,; Vaesen, Joost,; Vogl, Ulrike,; Vosters, Rik,; Wal, Marijke van der,; Watts, Richard J.,; Weber, Jean-Jacques,; Willemyns, Roland,
• HerausgeberIn: Peersman, Catharina,; Rutten, Gijsbert,; Vosters, Rik,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Language and Social Life [LSL] , 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (319 p.)

This volume revisits the issue of language contact and conflict in the Low Countries across space and time. The contributions deal with important sites of Germanic-Romance contact along the different language borders, covering languages such as French, Dutch, German, and Luxembourgish. This first monograph in English on the topic broadens our understanding of current-day issues by integrating a historical perspective, showing how language contact and conflict operated from the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, the 18th and 19th centuries, and into the 20th and 21st centuries.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Author information -- Chapter 1. Romance–Germanic encounters along the language border: past, present and future -- Part I: Theoretical and historical overview -- Chapter 2. The dimensions of language conflict: an exploration -- Chapter 3. Trilingual tug-o’-war: language border fluctuations in the Low Countries -- Chapter 4. Standard language ideology and the history of Romance–Germanic encounters -- Part II: The Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period -- Chapter 5. Constructing identity: language and identity in the narration of the Franco-Flemish conflict (1297–1305) -- Chapter 6. Multilingualism and the challenge of frenchification in the early modern Dutch Republic -- Part III: The 18th and 19th centuries -- Chapter 7. Frenchification in discourse and practice: loan morphology in Dutch private letters of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Chapter 8. The use of languages in Maastricht in the nineteenth century: the press and family archives -- Part IV: The 20th and 21st centuries -- Chapter 9. Language conflict in the educational realm: Eupen-Malmedy in the interbellum period (1920–1940) -- Chapter 10. Multilingual education and the politics of language in Luxembourg -- Chapter 11. In contact and/or in conflict? Ethno-cultural markers, language and schooling in post-war Brussels -- Epilogue -- Chapter 12. Conceptualising “language borders”, “language contact” and “language conflict” -- Index