German Language Council
The German Language Council is a GbR made up of the German Academic Exchange Service , the Society for the German Language , the Goethe Institute and the Institute for the German Language . The council was established on May 29, 2003.
This took up a proposal by Christian Gizewski from 2001, which was part of a draft of a federal-state agreement “on the general official and lingua franca of German in the Federal Republic of Germany”.
aims
The Language Council intends to bring together education, language criticism and discussion about the German language , to improve cooperation between educational institutions at home and abroad, to strengthen German as a mother tongue and as a foreign language and to promote the international use of the German language. The Language Council wants to try “to work towards an increased public criticism of language and a developed critical ability of many people”.
Competitions
In 2004, the Language Council drew attention to itself with the choice of the word " Habselitäten " as the most beautiful German word.
In 2006 the German Language Council organized a search for “emigrated words” in the German language by means of an international tender, the results of which were published in book form by Jutta Limbach .
swell
- ↑ Christian Gizewski: This is what a language law could look like. In: Deutsche Sprachwelt. Report dated February 27, 2001.
- ↑ German Language Council selects the word “belongings” as the winner. WDR, October 24, 2004 ( Memento from July 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).
- ^ Emigrated words - International invitation to tender by the German Language Council. Communication from the Goethe Institute , November 2006.
- ↑ Emigrated words. Hueber-Verlag, 2008 ( Memento of April 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ).
literature
- Emigrated words . A selection of the most interesting contributions to the international call for proposals «Emigrated words». In: Jutta Limbach ; Deutscher Sprachrat, Goethe-Institut (Ed.): Words wander around the world . 1st edition. Hueber Verlag , Ismaning 2006, ISBN 3-19-107891-6 (3rd edition 2008).