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Sprache ist ein zentraler Bestandteil menschlicher Kommunikation und dient, neben anderen Funktionen, der Etablierung und Gestaltung sozialer Beziehungen, dem Ausdruck von Macht, von Gruppenzugehörigkeit und Identität, aber auch von Ab- und Ausgrenzung, im Privaten wie im Öffentlichen und Politischen. In diesem Beitrag wird der Blick auf den Umgang mit Sprache im deutsch-kolonialen Kontext gerichtet: Es geht darum, wir durch Vorgaben zum Gebrauch von Sprache(n) und deren variable Umsatzung vor Ort das Deutsche Kaiserreich als Kolonialmacht in den Kolonialgebieten in Ozeanien präsent war und repräsentiert wurde.
Um das Thema Gendern oder geschlechtergerechte Sprache hat sich eine hitzige gesellschaftliche Debatte entwickelt. Seit Anfang des Jahres ist die Diskussion um geschlechtergerechte Sprache medial wieder besonders präsent. Anlass ist u.a. die Überarbeitung der Bedeutungsbeschreibungen im Duden online. Vor kurzem widmete sogar Der Spiegel dem Thema den Hefttitel und einen Leitartikel (vgl. Bohr et al. 2021). Allerdings erschöpft sich die Diskussion leicht in Pro- und Kontra-Positionen, dabei gibt es eine ganze Bandbreite von Aspekten rund um das Thema ‚geschlechtergerechte Sprache‘ zu betrachten, die eine differenziertere Diskussion ermöglichen können. Ziel dieses Beitrags ist es, einige dieser Aspekte knapp und möglichst verständlich in die Debatte einzubringen.
Grußwort / Welcome address
(2018)
Germany's (single) national official language is German. The dominance of German in schools, politics, the legal system, administration and the entire written public domain is so great that for a long time the lack of a coherent language policy was not seen as a problem. State restraint in this area is due, on the one hand, to historical reasons; on the other hand, it has been promoted by the federal system in Germany, which grants the federal states far-reaching responsibilities in the fields of education and culture. More recently, multilingualism among the population has increased and has resulted in a growing interest in understanding the language situation in Germany and (in particular) taking a closer look at the different minority languages. In 2017, for the first time in about 80 years, there is a question on the language of the population in the German micro census. The Institute for the German Language has also carried out various representative surveys; in the winter of 2017/201, a large representative survey with questions on the language repertoire and language attitudes is in the field.
Latvia
(2019)
This chapter deals with current issues in bilingual education in the framework of language and educational policies in Latvia, and also outlines similarities or common tendencies in the two other Baltic states, Estonia and Lithuania. As commonly understood in the 21st century, the term ‘bilingual education’ includes ‘multilingual education, as the umbrella term to cover a wide spectrum of practice and policy’ (García, 2009: 9).
This paper discusses contemporary societal roles of German in the Baltic states (Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania). Speaker and learner statistics and a summary of sociolinguistic research (Linguistic Landscapes, language learning motivation, language policies, international roles of languages) suggest that German has by far fewer speakers and functions than the national languages, English, and Russian, and it is not a dominant language in the contemporary Baltics anymore. However, German is ahead of ‘any other language’ in terms of users and societal roles as a frequent language in education, of economic relations, as a historical lingua franca, and a language of traditional and new minorities. Highly diverse groups of users and language policy actors form a ‘coalition of interested parties’ which creates niches which guarantee German a frequent use. In the light of the abundance of its functions, the paper suggests the concept ‘additional language of society’ for a variety such as German in the Baltics – since there seems to be no adequate alternative labelling which would do justice to all societal roles. The paper argues that this concept may also be used for languages in similar societal situations and, not least, be useful in language marketing and the promotion of multilingualism.