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Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird anhand von Fallstudien der Frage nachgegangen, welche Dialektkompetenz speziell diejenigen russlanddeutschen Aussiedler der Einwanderungsgeneration mitbringen, die zwar in deutschen Sprachinseln geboren und aufgewachsen sind, einen Großteil des erwachsenen Lebens jedoch in russischsprachiger Umgebung verbracht haben.
Kann Deutsch als "Minderheitensprache" unterrichtet werden? Überlegungen zu einem aktuellen Problem
(2013)
Angesichts der schwindenden Zahl von Angehörigen der deutschen Minderheiten in den osteuropäischen Ländern und deren veränderter Situation nach der Öffnung des Eisernen Vorhangs stellt sich gegenwärtig die Frage, ob und wie das Deutsche in den betreffenden Regionen gefördert werden kann. Ein zentraler Aspekt in Bezug auf die Existenz und Förderung der deutschen Minderheitensprache in Osteuropa ist der Sprachunterricht. Mit dieser Thematik beschäftigt sich der vorliegende Beitrag.
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.
In the first part of the article, the situation of Germans in Russia will be put into the context of discussions about linguistic enclaves, minorities and linguistic identity in situations of language contact. The second part will focus on the effects of events related to the Second World War on the language development of the Germans in the former Soviet Union. Unlike the slow language change typical for many minorities, the Germans went through an abrupt, extensive decrease in the knowledge and use of the German language. The singular experience of loss and the corresponding impression on this minority left traces that are particularly noticeable among Russian Germans who have immigrated to Germany. After describing the historical status of German, the article turns to the current situation of the German minority in Russia. It then addresses German native-language instruction in Russia questioning finally whether it might be worthwhile to take into account the fact that the traditional form of German language used in Russia has elements of lower German (“niederdeutsche”), Hessian and other dialects. This could serve to emphasize the particularities of their own language tradition.