TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Stolberg, Doris
T1  - German in Samoa: Historical traces of a colonial variety
JF  - Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics PSiCL
N2  - During the brief era of German colonialism in the Pacific (1884-1914), German was in contact with a large number of languages, autochthonous as well as colonial ones. This setting led to language contact in which German influenced and was influenced by various languages. In 1900, Western Samoa came under German colonial rule. The German language held a certain prestige there which is mirrored by the numbers of voluntary Samoan learners of German. On the other hand, the preferred use of English, rather than German, by native speakers of German was frequently noted. This paper examines linguistic and metalinguistic data that suggest the historical existence of (the precursor of) a colonial variety of German as spoken in Samoa. This variety seems to have been marked mainly by lexical borrowing from English and Samoan and was, because of these borrowings, not fully comprehensible to Germans who had never encountered the variety or the colonial setting in Samoa. It is discussed whether this variety can be considered a separate variety of German on linguistic grounds.
KW  - Sprachkontakt
KW  - Deutschland
KW  - Kolonialismus
KW  - Westsamoa
KW  - Deutsch
KW  - Lehnwort
KW  - Geschichte <1884-1914>
KW  - Language contact
KW  - colonial linguistics
KW  - lexical borrowing
KW  - Samoan German
Y1  - 2013
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-33806
SN  - 1897-7499
SS  - 1897-7499
U6  - https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/psicl-2013-0012
DO  - https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/psicl-2013-0012
N1  - Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.
VL  - 49
IS  - 1
SP  - 321
EP  - 353
ER  -