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Luthers spielerischer Umgang mit Spracheigenheiten anderer

von Herbert Wolf

ABSTRACT: Up to now, linguistic research has paid little attention to Luther’s games with the linguistic idiosyncracies of other speakers. In the present article, an attempt is made to show the diversity apparent in his skilful treatment of such phenomena. Particular attention is given to the unerringly accurate deployment of characteristic dialect markers and individual modes of word-formation in Luther’s polemical writings.