Open-access handbook · Heidelberg University Publishing
Online Handbook of Language Criticism – A European Perspective
The project Europäische Sprachkritik Online (ESO), or European language criticism online, aims at documenting and comparing the current trends of subjective metalinguistic reflections in European languages in order to lay the foundation for a new academic field that will extend the German tradition of Sprachkritik (‘language criticism’) to the European context.
The Online Handbook of Language Criticism – A European Perspective (HESO) is ESO’s scientific publication medium. The project is embedded in the European Centre for Linguistics (EZS), which is a cooperation between the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS) in Mannheim and Heidelberg University.
From the handbook · Volume 5 (2025)
Latest contributions
Vol. 5 · 2025pp. 77–93
Foundational article
Language Ideologies and Language Criticism: Definitions and Research Perspectives
Full text at heiUP ↗ doi:10.17885/heiup.heso.2025.5.25214
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Münch, Vanessa / Gvozdanović, Jadranka / Jacob, Katharina / Scharloth, Joachim / Dyre, Cynthia (2025): Language Ideologies and Language Criticism: Definitions and Research Perspectives. In: Handbuch Europäische Sprachkritik Online (HESO), Vol. 5, pp. 77–93. DOI: 10.17885/heiup.heso.2025.5.25214
Vol. 5 · 2025pp. 167–179
European
Language Ideologies and Language Criticism in European Perspective
Abstract Full text at heiUP ↗ doi:10.17885/heiup.heso.2025.5.25220
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Gvozdanović, Jadranka / Jacob, Katharina / Münch, Vanessa / Dyre, Cynthia (2025): Language Ideologies and Language Criticism in European Perspective. In: Handbuch Europäische Sprachkritik Online (HESO), Vol. 5, pp. 167–179. DOI: 10.17885/heiup.heso.2025.5.25220
Vol. 5 · 2025pp. 233–245
Individual language · German
Language Ideologies and Language Criticism in German
Abstract Full text at heiUP ↗ doi:10.17885/heiup.heso.2025.5.25219
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Jacob, Katharina / Münch, Vanessa / Scharloth, Joachim / Dyre, Cynthia (2025): Language Ideologies and Language Criticism in German. In: Handbuch Europäische Sprachkritik Online (HESO), Vol. 5, pp. 233–245. DOI: 10.17885/heiup.heso.2025.5.25219
Vol. 5 · 2025pp. 303–317
Individual language · English
Language Ideologies and Language Criticism in English
Abstract Full text at heiUP ↗ doi:10.17885/heiup.heso.2025.5.25230
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Dumrukcic, Nina / Du Bois, Sophie / Busse, Beatrix (2025): Language Ideologies and Language Criticism in English. In: Handbuch Europäische Sprachkritik Online (HESO), Vol. 5, pp. 303–317. DOI: 10.17885/heiup.heso.2025.5.25230
Vol. 5 · 2025pp. 385–398
Individual language · French
Language Ideologies and Language Criticism in French
Abstract Full text at heiUP ↗ doi:10.17885/heiup.heso.2025.5.25235
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Große, Sybille / Dyre, Cynthia (2025): Language Ideologies and Language Criticism in French. In: Handbuch Europäische Sprachkritik Online (HESO), Vol. 5, pp. 385–398. DOI: 10.17885/heiup.heso.2025.5.25235
Vol. 5 · 2025pp. 453–463
Individual language · Italian
Language Ideologies and Language Criticism in Italian
Abstract Full text at heiUP ↗ doi:10.17885/heiup.heso.2025.5.25240
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Lobin, Antje / Dyre, Cynthia (2025): Language Ideologies and Language Criticism in Italian. In: Handbuch Europäische Sprachkritik Online (HESO), Vol. 5, pp. 453–463. DOI: 10.17885/heiup.heso.2025.5.25240
Vol. 5 · 2025pp. 513–527
Individual language · Croatian
Language Ideologies and Language Criticism in Croatian
Abstract Full text at heiUP ↗ doi:10.17885/heiup.heso.2025.5.25245
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Gvozdanović, Jadranka / Dyre, Cynthia (2025): Language Ideologies and Language Criticism in Croatian. In: Handbuch Europäische Sprachkritik Online (HESO), Vol. 5, pp. 513–527. DOI: 10.17885/heiup.heso.2025.5.25245
Three approaches
Reading language criticism
Individual languages
Here you may access articles on language criticism from the perspective of individual European linguistic cultures.
European
Here you may find a comparative approach to language criticism in the different participating European languages. Various language-critical phenomena are examined from a European perspective and presented in comparative articles:
Language ideologies Language institutions Linguistic purism Standardisation Language norms
Socially critical
In this section, the authors of the ESO project comment on societal discussions of current language usage from a linguistic perspective.
