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Details for Professor Nils Langer
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| Name | Professor Nils Langer | ||||||
| Job title | Professor of Germanic Linguistics |
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| Department | Department of German University of Bristol |
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| Personal web page | http://www.bris.ac.uk/german/staffandresearch/lecturers/nl.html | ||||||
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| Qualifications | BA, MA, PhD(N'cle) | ||||||
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| Membership of professional bodies | Forum for Germanic Language Studies (FGLS) The Philological Society The Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas Association for German Studies (AGS) Verein fuer niederdeutsche Sprachforschung Gesellschaft fuer Sprachwissenschaft Gesellschaft fuer deutsche Sprache (GfdS) Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB) Society for Germanic Linguistics (SGL) |
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| Keywords | linguistics German historical linguistics sociolinguistics bad language Bristolian linguistic norms dialect |
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| Areas of expertise | My research focuses on the relation between language use and language attitudes, i.e. the difference between what people think they say and what they actually say. The aspect of linguistics surfaces in many areas of the subject, such as dialectology, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and folk linguistics. I published on linguistic norms and am interested in how language changes are conditioned by external interventions |
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