Verena Sauer : Hochdeutsch. Eine framesemantische Analyse historischer Spracheinstellungen zum Deutschen vom 16. bis 18. Jahrhundert, Berlin u. Boston: de Gruyter 2024 (Studia Linguistica Germanica 145)

Key Points

• The article aims to analyze historical attitudes towards the German language from the 16th to the 18th century through a framesemantic lens.
• Utilized framesemantic analysis to interpret historical texts.
• Examined language attitudes in various cultural contexts.
• Focused on documents from the 16th to 18th centuries.
• Identified significant shifts in language attitudes over time.
• Revealed the influence of cultural and societal changes on language perception.
• Highlighted the role of Hochdeutsch in shaping modern German identity.