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Our current era of globalization is characterized above all by increased mobility, namely by the increasing mobility of people and the development of new communication technologies, including the mobility of linguistic signs and resources. This process raises new theoretical and methodological questions in linguistics, which results in the development of a new sociolinguistics of globalization (Blommaert 2010) in recent years. One of the most obvious ways to trace this new and dynamic development is to analyze individual language repertoires, especially those of migrants. In this essay, I examine aspects of the communicative repertoire of a refugee who fled to Germany in 2015 to escape the civil war in Syria. I draw on two interviews I conducted with him (in the following I refer to him by the pseudonym „Baran“). The first interview with Baran was recorded in 2016, a few months after his arrival in Germany. The second interview is from 2023, seven years later. In both recordings, German was the dominant language of interaction. I will analyze and show the characteristics of his German at the beginning of his immigration, how he resorts to practices of language mixing between German, Turkish and English (which has recently also been referred to as translanguaging) and how his German has developed over the course of the past seven years.
“Linguistic Landscapes” (LL) is a research method which has become increasingly popular in recent years. In this paper, we will first explain the method itself and discuss some of its fundamental assumptions. We will then recall the basic traits of multilingualism in the Baltic States, before presenting results from our project carried out together with a group of Master students of Philology in several medium-sized towns in the Baltic States, focussing on our home town of Rēzekne in the highly multilingual region of Latgale in Eastern Latvia. In the discussion of some of the results, we will introduce the concept of “Legal Hypercorrection” as a term for the stricter compliance of language laws than necessary. The last part will report on advantages of LL for educational purposes of multilingualism, and for developing discussions on multilingualism among the general public.
Every Regional Dossier begins with an introduction about the region in question, followed by six chapters that each deal with a specific level of the education system (e.g. primary education). Chapters 8 and 9 cover the main lines of research into education of the minority language under discussion, and the prospects for the minority language in general and in education in particular, respectively. Chapter 10 provides a summary of statistics. Lists of (legal) references and useful addresses regarding the minority language are given at the end of the dossier.
This dossier consists of an introduction to the region under study, followed by six sections each dealing with a specific level of the education system. These brief descriptions contain factual information presented in a readily accessible way. Sections eight to ten cover research, prospects, and summary statistics. For detailed information and political discussions about language use at the various levels of education, the reader is referred to other sources with a list of publications.
Language shift after migration has been reported to occur within three generations. While this pattern holds in many cases there is also some counter evidence. In this paper, family documents from a German immigration community in Canada are investigated to trace individual decisions of language choice that contributed to an extended process of shift taking four generations and more than a century.
The authors are pleased to present to the readers of the Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft a Special Issue in honor of Rosemarie Tracy.
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0. Frontmatter
1. Petra Schulz, Ira Gawlitzek, Angelika Wöllstein: Introduction, S. 1
2. Natascha Müller: Different sources of delay and acceleration in early child bilingualism, S. 7
3. Hubert Haider, Christina Schörghofer-Essl, Karin Seethaler: Quantifying kids prefer intersecting sets - a pilot study, S. 31
4. Petra Schulz, Rabea Schwarze: How strong is the ban on non-finite verbs in V2? Evidence from early second language learners of German with and without SLI, S. 51
5. Monika Rothweiler, Manuela Schönenberger, Franziska Sterner: Subject-verb agreement in German in bilingual children with and without SLI, S. 79
6. Holger Hopp: The processing of English which-questions in adult L2 learners: Effects of L1 transfer and proficiency, S. 107
7. Oksana Laleko, Maria Polinsky: Silence is difficult: On missing elements in bilingual grammars, S. 135
8. Artemis Alexiadou: Building verbs in language mixing varieties, S. 165
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I nationale og curopa’iskc sprogpolitiske undersogelser savner man orte et tilt'redsstiIlende cmpirisk grundlag. De tilgsngelige data om den aktuelle Situation for sprogene i de forskelligc lande er heterogene. ufuldstEndige og delvist foraddede og derfor vanskelige at sammenligne over tid. EKNIL’s curoptciskc sprogbarometer. KLM, er et forsog pä al afhjxlpe denne Situation. KLM er baseret pä et omfattende spor- geskema om en bred vifte al’sproglige forhold som er egnet til at danne et billede at'sprogenes Status og sprogpolitiske praksisser i hvert enkelt land. fx sprogencs juridiske Status, sprogenes Status i undervis- ning og forskning, Situationen for minoritetssprog, sprogene i kulturen og i erhvervslivet. KLM gennem- tores med fä ärs mellemrum. Naervjerende artikel beskriver baggrunden og resultateme af KLM 2 (2007- 2011) som omfatler 23 europa’iske lande
Moderm European Science and culture evolved in the process of emancipation of various national languages from medieval Latin. At present, this development from monolingualism to multilingualism seems to be reversed in several scientific disciplines and in higher education. The former linguistic diversity turns gradually into a modern monolingualism of scientific English, especially in the natural and some social sciences. A short-term consequence is that researchers and Professors with other first languages need extra time and sometimes money to prepare their publications and lectures in English. Long-term consequences are, among others, that all languages exept English are devaluated as media of science and learning and, thus, a diglossia might develop if only English be used for the important domains and other languages be limited to the domains of private communication and folklore. The way out can only be through a cultivation of at least bilingualism of researchers, Professors, and their students in the natural sciences and trilingualism in social sciences and the humanities.