Spelling Trouble? Language, Ideology and the Reform of German Orthography

by Sally Johnson

In 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. In this book Sally Johnson...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853597856
• ISBN13: 9781853597855
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
• Length: 216 Pages