TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Beyer, Rahel
A1  - Plewnia, Albrecht
T1  - German or not German: That is the question! On the status of the autochthonous dialects in East Lorraine (France)
JF  - Languages
N2  - The European language world is characterized by an ideology of monolingualism and national languages. This language-related world view interacts with social debates and definitions about linguistic autonomy, diversity, and variation. For the description of border minorities and their sociolinguistic situation, however, this view reaches its limits. In this article, the conceptual difficulties with a language area that crosses national borders are examined. It deals with the minority in East Lorraine (France) in particular. On the language-historical level, this minority is closely related to the language of its (big) neighbor Germany. At the same time, it looks back on a conflictive history with this country, has never filled a (subordinated) political–administrative unit, and has experienced very little public support. We want to address the questions of how speakers themselves reflect on their linguistic situation and what concepts and argumentative figures they bring up in relation to what (Germanic) variety. To this end, we look at statements from guideline-based interviews. In the paper, we present first observations gained through qualitative content analysis.
KW  - Minderheitensprache
KW  - Deutsch
KW  - Frankreich
KW  - Lothringen
KW  - Mundart
KW  - Soziolinguistik
KW  - Historische Sprachwissenschaft
KW  - Sprachpolitik
KW  - linguistic minority
KW  - language status
KW  - France
KW  - Lorraine
KW  - language ideology
KW  - German
KW  - language area
KW  - Dialektologie
KW  - Sprachliche Minderheit
Y1  - 2021
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-103751
SN  - 2226-471X
SS  - 2226-471X
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3390/languages6010048
DO  - https://doi.org/10.3390/languages6010048
VL  - 6
IS  - 1: Article 48
SP  - 19
S1  - 19
PB  - MDPI
CY  - Basel
ER  -