TY - JOUR U1 - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed) A1 - Wiese, Heike A1 - Rehbein, Ines ED - Hinskens, Frans ED - Guy, Gregory Riordan T1 - Coherence in new urban dialects: A case study JF - Lingua: Coherence, covariation and bricolage. Various approaches to the systematicity of language variation N2 - This paper investigates evidence for linguistic coherence in new urban dialects that evolved in multiethnic and multilingual urban neighbourhoods. We propose a view of coherence as an interpretation of empirical observations rather than something that would be ‘‘out there in the data’’, and argue that this interpretation should be based on evidence of systematic links between linguistic phenomena, as established by patterns of covariation between phenomena that can be shown to be related at linguistic levels. In a case study, we present results from qualitative and quantitative analyses for a set of phenomena that have been described for Kiezdeutsch, a new dialect from multilingual urban Germany. Qualitative analyses point to linguistic relationships between different phenomena and between pragmatic and linguistic levels. Quantitative analyses, based on corpus data from KiDKo (www.kiezdeutschkorpus.de), point to systematic advantages for the Kiezdeutsch data from a multiethnic and multilingual context provided by the main corpus (KiDKo/Mu), compared to complementary corpus data from a mostly monoethnic and monolingual (German) context (KiDKo/Mo). Taken together, this indicates patterns of covariation that support an interpretation of coherence for this new dialect: our findings point to an interconnected linguistic system, rather than to a mere accumulation of individual features. In addition to this internal coherence, the data also points to external coherence: Kiezdeutsch is not disconnected on the outside either, but fully integrated within the general domain of German, an integration that defies a distinction of ‘‘autochthonous’’ and ‘‘allochthonous’’ German, not only at the level of speakers, but also at the level of linguistic systems. KW - Covariation KW - Internal and external coherence KW - Urban dialects KW - Directive particles KW - Light verbs KW - Multikulturelle Gesellschaft KW - Gesprochenes Deutsch KW - Jugendsprache KW - Korpus KW - Partikel KW - Mundart KW - Mehrsprachigkeit Y1 - 2015 UN - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-101160 SN - 0024-3841 SS - 0024-3841 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2015.10.016 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2015.10.016 VL - 2016 SP - 45 EP - 61 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER -