@article{MuellerWieseMayretal.2015,
  author    = {M{\"u}ller, Hans-Georg and Wiese, Heike and Mayr, Katharina and Kr{\"a}mer, Philipp and Seeger, Patrick and Mezger, Verena},
  title     = {Changing teachers' attitudes towards linguistic diversity},
  series = {International Journal of Applied Linguistics},
  volume    = {27},
  journal   = {International Journal of Applied Linguistics},
  number    = {1},
  pages     = {198 -- 220},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {We discuss an intervention programme for kindergarten and school teachers' continuing education in Germany that targets biases against language outside a perceived monolingual 'standard' and its speakers. The programme combines anti-bias methods relating to linguistic diversity with objectives of raising critical language awareness. Evaluation through teachers' workshops in Berlin and Brandenburg points to positive and enduring attitudinal changes in participants, but not in control groups that did not attend workshops, and effects were independent of personal variables gender and teaching subject and only weakly associated with age. We relate these effects to such programme features as indirect and inclusive methods that foster active engagement, and the combination of 'safer' topics targeting attitudes towards linguistic structures with more challenging ones dealing with the discrimination of speakers.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Demske2015,
  author    = {Demske, Ulrike},
  title     = {Towards coherent infinitival patterns in the history of German},
  series = {The Diachrony of Infinitival Patterns: Their origin, development and loss. In: Journal of Historical Linguistics},
  volume    = {2015},
  journal   = {The Diachrony of Infinitival Patterns: Their origin, development and loss. In: Journal of Historical Linguistics},
  number    = {5.1},
  editor    = {Demske, Ulrike and Jędrzejowski, Łukasz},
  publisher = {Benjamins},
  address   = {Amsterdam},
  issn      = {2210-2116 print},
  doi       = {10.1075/jhl.5.1.01dem},
  pages     = {6 -- 40},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {According to Haider (2010), we have to distinguish three types of infinitival complements in Present-Day German: (i) CP complements, (ii) VP complements and (iii) verbal clusters. While CP complements give rise to biclausal structures, VP complements and verbal clusters indicate a monoclausal structure. Non-finite verbs in verbal clusters build a syntactic unit with the governing verb. It is only the last infinitival pattern that we address as a so-called coherent infinitival pattern, a notion introduced in the influential work of Bech (1955/57). Verbal clusters are bound to languages with an OV grammar, hence the well-known differences regarding infinitival syntax in German and English (Haider 2003, Bobaljik 2004). On the widespread assumption that German has been an OV language throughout its history (Axel 2007), we expect all three types of infinitival complements to be present from the earliest attestions of German.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Wiese2015,
  author    = {Wiese, Heike},
  title     = {"This migrants' babble is not a German dialect!": The interaction of standard language ideology and 'us'/'them' dichotomies in the public discourse on a multiethnolect},
  series = {Language in society},
  volume    = {44},
  journal   = {Language in society},
  number    = {3},
  publisher = {Cambridge Univ. Press},
  address   = {New York},
  issn      = {0047-4045},
  doi       = {10.1017/S0047404515000226},
  pages     = {341 -- 368},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {This article investigates a public debate in Germany that put a special spotlight on the interaction of standard language ideologies with social dichotomies, centering on the question of whether Kiezdeutsch, a new way of speaking in multilingual urban neighbourhoods, is a legitimate German dialect. Based on a corpus of emails and postings to media websites, I analyse central topoi in this debate and an underlying narrative on language and identity. Central elements of this narrative are claims of cultural elevation and cultural unity for an idealised standard language High German', a view of German dialects as part of a national folk culture, and the construction of an exclusive in-group of German' speakers who own this language and its dialects. The narrative provides a potent conceptual frame for the Othering of Kiezdeutsch and its speakers, and for the projection of social and sometimes racist deliminations onto the linguistic plane.},
  language  = {en}
}