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Since the eighties of the last century, the Institut für Deutsche Sprache (Institute for the German Language) explored in various ways the attitudes of the German population towards the national language in Germany. After limited studies without statistical relevance, two representative surveys were conducted in 1997/98 and 2008/09. The questions asked concerned attitudes toward recent developments of the language, the regional variance of German, especially the East- and West-German variants, and towards foreign languages inside and outside of the country. The major statistical results are presented and discussed.
Sprachentwicklung – Sprachkultur – Sprachkritik: Erwägungen zum heutigen und künftigen Deutsch
(2013)
Following an explanation of the problems to evaluate the general state of a language and to predict its future development, the main popular worries concerning the present German language are briefly presented and discussed. Three speculative scenarios of states of German at the end of the century are sketched and compared:
A. The preservation of the main structural features and domains of the German language,
B. The change of German into an Anglo-German creole,
C. The exchange of German by an 'international' English with the exception of a few relics of old German dialects.
Scenario A, the 'positive' one of the three possible developments, is argued for in more detail, and ways and means to support such a development of the German language within the context of the other European languages are suggested and discussed.
Other than linguistic laymen, most linguists avoid Statements concerning the general state of a language or its future. Despite some theoretical scruples, I shall, after some assessing comments on present German, make speculations on the further development of this language. Three scenarios of possible States of the German language at the end of this Century will be sketched and discussed in comparison. These speculations are but plausible considerations based on observations of the Contemporary language. In view of the looming partial loss of domains of German and other European Standard languages, I will then discuss how the further development of German can be positively influenccd within the context of multilingual Europe.
Das Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) hat die Aufgabe, die deutsche Sprache in ihrem gegenwärtigen Gebrauch und in ihrer neueren Geschichte zu erforschen und zu dokumentieren. Seine Forschungsarbeiten stützen sich auf umfangreiche Korpora geschriebener Texte, auf Aufnahmen gesprochener Äußerungen und - soweit wie möglich - auch auf Beobachtungen der Bedingungen des konkreten Sprachgebrauchs. Zu den Bedingungen des Sprachgebrauchs in einem weiten Sinn gehören auch die Meinungen und Einstellungen, die Menschen zu ihrer eigenen Sprache und zu den Sprachen oder dem Sprachgebrauch anderer Menschen und Gruppen haben. In Deutschland verbreitete Sprachmeinungen und -einstellungen wurden vom IDS im Winter 1997/98 mit einer Repräsentativumfrage erkundet. Durchgeführt wurde die Erhebung von der Gesellschaft für Marketing, Kommunikations- und Sozialforschung, GFM-GETAS, in Hamburg.