Eintrag

Titel

'Cultural morphology': A success story in German linguistics

Personen

Clemens Knobloch

Jahr

2011

Typ

Aufsatz

Verlag

John Benjamins Publishing Co.

Ort

Amsterdam, Philadelphia

Seiten

409 - 423

In

History of Linguistics 2008. Selected papers from the Eleventh International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences

Schlagwörter

Historisch
Morphologie

Abstract

Cultural morphology originated in the 1920s in the context of German 'Volksforschung'. For German dialectology, it became attractive because of the inherent promise to overcome its political isolation stemming from the traditional preoccupation with the history of mere sounds and forms. Dialectologists saw a chance to save themselves and find protection under the semantic umbrella of German 'Volk' and 'Kultur'. Cultural morphology was shaped in strategic compe­tition with the rising French sociology of language and dialect. Reframed as Kultur­morpholo­gie, dialectology became modern, dynamic and sociological. As a model approach within Kulturraum­forschung, dialectology managed to gain promi­nence and a high reputation in the field of Geisteswissenschaften – as well as am­ple financial fund­ing by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. While neogramma­rian dialectolo­gists were ridiculed as unworthy Lautschieber, cultural morphology became the most prominent branch of applied linguistics in Germany and remained in a hege­monic position for at least 40 years.

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