TY  - GEN
A1  - Wiese, Heike
T1  - So as a focus marker in German
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe
N2  - This paper discusses a hitherto undescribed usage of the particle so as a dedicated focus marker in contemporary German. I discuss grammatical and pragmatic characteristics of this focus marker, supporting my account with natural linguistic data and with controlled experimental evidence showing that so has a significant influence on speakers’ understanding of what the focus expression in a sentence is. Against this background, I sketch a possible pragmaticalization path from referential usages of so via hedging to a semantically bleached focus marker, which, unlike particles such as auch ‘also’/‘too’ or nur ‘only’, does not contribute any additional meaning.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 102 
Y1  - 2016
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-93592
SN  - 1866-8380
IS  - 102
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Wiese, Heike
T1  - "This migrants' babble is not a German dialect!"
BT  - the interaction of standard language ideology and 'us'/'them' dichotomies in the public discourse on a multiethnolect
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Philosopische Fakultät
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.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 157 
KW  - standard language ideology
KW  - Kiezdeutsch
KW  - dialect
KW  - public discourse
KW  - othering
KW  - racism by proxy
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-414764
SN  - 1866-8380
IS  - 157
ER  -