If the inline pdf is not rendering correctly, you can download the pdf file here. The kiezdeutschkorpus kidko has been developed by project b6 pi. Kiezdeutsch, also known as kanak sprak in a literary reclamation of an otherwise pejorative term zaimoglu 1995, 1 has been studied quite extensively over the last twenty years, most recently in. Kiezdeutsch as a test case for the interaction between. Vorstellungen zum thema kiezdeutsch kiezdeutsch bedroht zum. Kanak sprak is a german sociolect created by turkish youth in germany in the late 1980s the sociolect takes its name directly from the title of the book kanak sprak 1995 by germanturkish author feridun zaimoglu. Interdisciplinary studies on information structure up. Katharina mayr, tiner ozcelik, heike wiese abstract. Kiezdeutsch als neuer dialekt 127 5 was bedeutet es, ein dialekt zu sein. Language contact and v3 in germanic varieties new and old. You have to enable javascript in your browser to use an application built with vaadin. Heike wiese argues that language as a human faculty plays a crucial role in the emergence of systematic numerical thinking. Kiezdeutsch a new emerging variety of the standard. They were collected in 2007 by a research group under the guidance of heike wiese at the university of potsdam.
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. Preface this is the 12th issue of the working paper series interdisciplinary studies on information structure isis of the sonderforschungsberich sfb 632. Based on a corpus of emails and postings to media websites, i analyse central topoi in this. Kiezdeutsch is a way of speaking that emerged among young people in multiethnic urban areas of germany. This is the case, for example, for kiezdeutsch, a new german dialect, as well as urban vernacular varieties of danish, norwegian and swedish. Pdf kiezdeutsch as a test case for the interaction between. This electronic file may not be altered in any way. Multiethnolects appear to be less homogeneous than either dialects or sociolects and are assumed to. Paul kerswill, york the objectification of jafaican. Grammatische produktivitat in kiezsprache kanak sprak heike wiese englische zusammenfassung the phrase ich mach dich messer lit i make you knife is a ritualised threat used in a variety of contemporary german that is popularly known as kanak sprak kanak language, but is also.
Ein neuer dialekt entsteht wiese 2012 has caused an emotional discussion about the status of a new german variety. Kiezdeutsch is an urban contact variety of german characterized by a multilingual andor multiethnic speaker base wiese 2006, freywald et al. Potsdam university german department, sfb 632 information structure irehbeinjheike. Kiez, or neighbourhood, using a berlin dialect term. Because the term kiezdeutsch is ethnically neutral. Yasemin yildiz has provided a muchneeded new look into the recent discourse on multilingualism and monolingualism. Kidko grammar and information structure in a contact variety of german 200811 pi. Te velde, oklahoma state university this study consists of two parts see below preceded by an introduction titled kiezdeutschkeine kanak sprak kiezdeutsch. Kiezdeutsch, on the other hand, represents the adoption by an academic heike wiese of a grassroots concept. This paper presents the first release of the kiezdeutsch korpus kidko, a new language resource with multiparty spoken dialogues of kiezdeutsch, a newly emerging language variety spoken by adolescents from multiethnic urban areas in germany. Kidko is a multimodal digital corpus of spontaneous discourse data from informal, oral peer group situations in multi and monoethnic speech communities. Kiezdeutsch hood german german dialect or facing the. An interesting phenomena in youth language is the emergence of multiethnolects in areas with a large migrant population. Expertengruppe diskussion nehmt erneut stellung zu unserer ausgangsfrage.
We show that, in kiezdeutsch, we find evidence for both grammatical reduction and new developments in the domain of information structure, and hypothesise that this points to a systematic interaction between grammar and information structure, between weakened. The data indicate that this noncanonical structure is not limited to multiethnic language use but ra. We argue for a view of kiezdeutsch as a multiethnolect, based on a recognition study that tested the acceptability and evaluation of such features by adolescents from a. Wiese 2012, 110 114 in recent years in germany there has existed a great debate about the status of kiezdeutsch. Heike wiese of the collaborative research centre information structure sfb. Even though schalowski 2015 reports that this structure also occurs in informal standard german, it seems to appear more frequently in kiezdeutsch. This paper investigates systematic patterns in a new urban vernacular from germany, kiezdeutsch, suggesting that what we find here is not a mere accumulation of features, but that the feature pool available in linguistically diverse contexts can support. Linguistic variation and the construction of social identity. This study consists of two parts see below preceded by an introduction titled kiezdeutschkeine kanak sprak kiezdeutsch kdnot a kanaka language. File card models, this preference has been accounted for by the fact that first a. Kiezdeutsch iris borkgoldfield wesleyan university. This online version contains the paper contributed by heike wiese, ulrike freywald and katharina meyr b6 on kiezdeutsch as a test case for the interaction between grammar and information structure. Juliana goschler, till woerfel, anatol stefanowitsch.
Kidko contains audio data from selfrecordings, with aligned transcriptions i. Information structure as a source of syntactic variation. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. This paper deals with kiezdeutsch, a way of speaking that emerged among adolescents in multiethnic urban neighbourhoods of germany. Certain recentlyattested varieties of germanic v2 languages are known to deviate from the strict v2 requirement characteristic of the standard. Wiese 2011 attributes the productivity of this structure to language contact, which might motivate a weakening of the v2constraint in kiezdeutsch. Friedrichdessauergymnasium fachschaft deutsch glossar.
All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license. File card models, this preference has been accounted for by the fact that first. She characterises number sequences as powerful and highly flexible mental tools that are unique to humans and shows that it is language that enables us to go beyond the perception of numerosity and to develop such mental tools. The main purpose of our study is to analyse the construction of the groups social identity in terms of their social style of communication. Pdf this paper deals with kiezdeutsch, a way of speaking that. John benjamins publishing company wesleyan university. A new emerging phenomenon, with similar proprieties of the other varieties in europe is kiezdeutsch a multiethnolect 1 variety spoken in urban cities across german speaking countries. Ich mag so wasserpfeifeladen the interaction of grammar and information structure in kiezdeutsch. She characterises number sequences as powerful and highly flexible mental tools that are unique to humans and shows that it is language that enables us to go beyond the perception of numerosity and to develop such mental. Heike wiese kiezdeutsch ein neuer dialekt kiezdeutsch ist kein falsches deutsch.