Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• MÜLLER, Peter O

Titel

Usus und Varianz in der spätmittelalterlichen und frühneuzeitlichen Schreibsprache Nürnbergs

Ist Teil von

• Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik, 2002-08, Vol.30 (1), p.56-72

Ort / Verlag

Berlin: De Gruyter

Erscheinungsjahr

2002

Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The significance of the role played by Nuremberg in the 15th and 16th centuries, both in the processes of linguistic uniformity and in the formation of the written language of New High German has been emphasized repeatedly in past research. In this context the question arises, in particular, of the character of late Middle Age, early modern period writing conventions, of the connection between these conventions and the regional linguistic environment, as well as of the variations in these conventions in the course of the development of Early New High German. In this paper it is shown that, towards the beginning of the early modern period, there was a writing custom in Nuremberg for which the absence of primary dialect features was no less characteristic than was the case for the Upper German: Bavarian version. The provision of a framework for formation of this writing custom in the late Middle Age was made possible by the passing on of official written language conventions within the school system. The developments in the writing custom in the early modern period prove to be manifestations of change in wri- ting motivated, at least in part, by religious denomination. Once the city of Nuremberg had decided upon the adoption of the Evangelical Lutheran faith, the linguistic example of Martin Luther also became dominant and was promoted in numerous texts used in the Nuremberg schools. Bavarian Upper German then came to be considered as anti-quated and symbolic of the old faith, a fact which led to the gradual decline of Bavarian writing traditions in Nuremberg texts. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]