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The book explores a range of topics related to language history and its intersection with society, focusing on various linguistic and cultural developments. Contributions include Reinhart Koselleck's examination of movement concepts in modernity, Peter von Polenz's analysis of language history from Adelung to the present, and Oskar Reichmann's discussion of national and European linguistic historiography. Martin Wengeler reflects on the concepts of 'meaning' and 'language' in historiography, while Fritz Hermanns recommends a psychological term for linguistic use. Felix Steiner investigates authorship figures in scientific texts around 1800. Evelyn Ziegler analyzes the band metaphor in 19th-century national discourse, and Jörg Kilian addresses source criticism in language history through the example of Bismarck's Socialist Law. Josef Klein employs topical and frame theory in colonial discourse, while Anja Lobenstein-Reichmann discusses the conservative framework of Moeller van den Bruck in the Weimar Republic. Hartmut Schmidt explores the beginnings of modernity through Nietzsche's linguistic techniques, and Heidrun Kämper contributes to the history of language awareness via Freud's thoughts. Other topics include the German language between 1918 and 1933, the media and anthropological shifts in historical linguistics, and the political rhetoric of the extreme left in Germany and Russia from 1914 to 1919. The book also examines