TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wiese, Heike
T1  - "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
JF  - Language in society
N2  - 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.
KW  - Standard language ideology
KW  - Kiezdeutsch
KW  - dialect
KW  - public discourse
KW  - Othering
KW  - racism by proxy
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404515000226
SN  - 0047-4045
SN  - 1469-8013
VL  - 44
IS  - 3
SP  - 341
EP  - 368
PB  - Cambridge Univ. Press
CY  - New York
ER  -