Socio-cultural identity, communicative style, and their change over time: A case study of a group of German-Turkish girls in Mannheim/Germany
- In this paper, I present some aspects of a youth group’s construction of a communicative style and show how the group’s stylistic repertoire changes over the course of their growing into adulthood. My paper is based on an ethnographic case study of a group of Turkish girls, the ‘Powergirls’, who grew up in a typical Turkish migrant neighborhood in the inner city of Mannheim, Germany. The aim of the case study was, on the basis of biographical interviews with group members and long-term observation of group interactions, to reconstruct the formation of an ethnically defined ‘ghetto’-clique and its style of communication and to describe the group’s development into educated, modern, German-Turkish young women. In this process, a change in the group’s stylistic repertoire could be observed.
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| Author: | Inken KeimGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-53674 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110198508.1.155 |
| ISBN: | 978-3-11-019081-6 |
| Parent Title (English): | Style and Social Identities. Alternative Approaches to Linguistic Heterogeneity |
| Series (Serial Number): | Language, Power and Social Process (18) |
| Publisher: | de Gruyter |
| Place of publication: | Berlin [u.a.] |
| Editor: | Peter Auer |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2007 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2016/10/25 |
| Publicationstate: | Zweitveröffentlichung |
| Reviewstate: | (Verlags)-Lektorat |
| GND Keyword: | Deutsch; Mannheim; Peer-Group; Soziale Identität; Sprachstil; Türkisch |
| First Page: | 155 |
| Last Page: | 186 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Soziolinguistik |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |