Winifred V Davies

Biographic Data

ID755679
NAMEWinifred V Davies
GIVEN NAMESWinifred V
FAMILY NAMEDavies
SIGNATUREDAVIES W V
AFFILIATIONSAberystwyth University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1998
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
H-INDEX1

  • Dialect Use as Interaction Strategy. A Sociolinguistic Study of Contextualization, Speech Perception, and Language Attitudes in Austria

    Open AccessWinifred V DaviesARTICLEJournal of Pragmatics2011References: 1

  • The role of World War II in the development of Luxembourgish as a national language

    Mélanie Wagner, Winifred V DaviesARTICLELanguage Problems & Language…2009Cited by: 2

    This paper explores the link between explicit Luxembourgish language policy and the actual practices as well as expressed attitudes of a group of speakers of Luxembourgish, with the aim of studying the role of World War II in the advancement of Luxembourgish as Luxembourg’s national language. The first two sections introduce the theoretical approach of the paper and provide an overview of the history and present situation of Luxembourg and Luxemb…

  • Sprachkultur’ in Lay and Academic Discourse in Modern Germany 1

    Open AccessWinifred V DaviesARTICLEGerman Life and Letters2008Cited by: 1References: 8

    The term ‘Sprachkultur’ is common in German‐language academic and lay discourse, but what exactly does it mean? Is it used in the same way by trained and lay linguists? This article defines the term and traces its history, before going on to compare and contrast its use by both groups. Data taken from lay‐linguistic works are analysed and two recurring motifs (i. the link between morality and linguistic usage and ii. accuracy/clarity) are discuss…

  • Martin Durrell: An Appreciation

    Open AccessWinifred V Davies, Winifred Davies et al.ARTICLEGerman Life and Letters2008

  • Bad Language: Are Some Words Better than Others? , Edited by Edwin L. Battistella

    Open AccessWinifred V Davies, Winifred DaviesARTICLEJournal of Sociolinguistics2007

  • Linguistic Purism in the Germanic Languages

    Winifred V Davies, Nils Langer et al.BOOKLinguistic Purism in the Germanic…2005

    Purism is an aspect of linguistic study which appeals not only to the scholar but also to the layperson. Somehow, ordinary speakers with many different mother tongues and with no formal training in linguistics share certain beliefs about what language is, how it develops or should develop, whether it has good or bad qualities, etc. The topic of linguistic purism in its many realisations is the subject of this volume of 19 articles selected from t…

  • Language Awareness Amongst Teachers in a Central German Dialect Area

    Winifred V DaviesARTICLELanguage Awareness2000

    This article presents some findings of a study into Language awareness amongst teachers in an area of Germany where a Central German dialect (Pfälzisch) is spoken. Davies (1995) shows that, in the Mannheim suburb of Neckarau, many parents who speak non-standard dialect leave it almost entirely up to schools to teach their children standard German. Teachers should therefore have a systematic knowledge of the major divergences between their pupils'…

  • Linguistic Variation and Language Attitudes in Mannheim-Neckarau

    Michal Pierce, Marc Pierce et al.ARTICLELanguage1998