"This migrants' babble is not a German dialect!"
- 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.
Author details: | Heike WieseGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-414764 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-41476 |
ISSN: | 1866-8380 |
Title of parent work (English): | Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Philosopische Fakultät |
Subtitle (English): | the interaction of standard language ideology and 'us'/'them' dichotomies in the public discourse on a multiethnolect |
Publication series (Volume number): | Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe (157) |
Publication type: | Postprint |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2019/02/12 |
Publication year: | 2015 |
Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
Release date: | 2019/02/12 |
Tag: | Kiezdeutsch dialect; othering; public discourse; racism by proxy; standard language ideology |
Issue: | 157 |
Number of pages: | 28 |
Source: | Language in Society 44 (2015), pp. 341–368 DOI 10.1017/S0047404515000226 |
Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät |
DDC classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Publishing method: | Open Access |
Grantor: | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
License (German): | Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |
External remark: | Bibliographieeintrag der Originalveröffentlichung/Quelle |