TY - JOUR U1 - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed) A1 - Berend, Nina A1 - Eichinger, Ludwig M. T1 - Verlust deutscher Sprachbindung : Herausforderung für kulturelle Rehabilitierung JF - Deportationen in Stalins Sowjetunion : das Schicksal der Russlanddeutschen und anderer Nationalitäten JF - Nordost-Archiv : Zeitschrift für Regionalgeschichte N2 - In the first part of the article, the situation of Germans in Russia will be put into the context of discussions about linguistic enclaves, minorities and linguistic identity in situations of language contact. The second part will focus on the effects of events related to the Second World War on the language development of the Germans in the former Soviet Union. Unlike the slow language change typical for many minorities, the Germans went through an abrupt, extensive decrease in the knowledge and use of the German language. The singular experience of loss and the corresponding impression on this minority left traces that are particularly noticeable among Russian Germans who have immigrated to Germany. After describing the historical status of German, the article turns to the current situation of the German minority in Russia. It then addresses German native-language instruction in Russia questioning finally whether it might be worthwhile to take into account the fact that the traditional form of German language used in Russia has elements of lower German (“niederdeutsche”), Hessian and other dialects. This could serve to emphasize the particularities of their own language tradition. KW - Sprachinsel KW - Russlanddeutsch KW - Sprachtod KW - Sowjetunion KW - Sprachvarietät KW - Sprachminderheit KW - Identität Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-28952 UN - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-28952 SN - 0029-1595 SS - 0029-1595 VL - N. F. 21.2012 SP - 226 EP - 237 PB - Nordost-Institut CY - Lüneburg ER -