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Das Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) führt seit den 1990er Jahren regelmäßig Repräsentativerhebungen zu sprachlichen Fragen durch. Über die letzten Umfragen, die Deutschland-Erhebung 2017 und die Erhebung Dialekt und Beruf 2019, wurde bereits in dieser Reihe berichtet. Informationen über die Deutschland-Erhebung 2017 finden sich in Folge 1 bis 6 dieser Reihe. In den Folgen 7 bis 9 wurden Ergebnisse der Erhebung Dialekt und Beruf 2019 vorgestellt. Im Winter 2022 hat das IDS eine neue Repräsentativumfrage durchgeführt: die Deutschland-Erhebung 2022. Darin wurden Einstellungen zum Deutschen und anderen Sprachen sowie die Wahrnehmung von sprachlichen Veränderungen erfasst. In dieser Folge 10 werden die Erhebung und erste Ergebnisse vorgestellt
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.
Welche Veränderungen fallen Menschen in der deutschen Sprache auf? Sprache in Zahlen: Folge 11
(2023)
Aims and objectives:
Language debates in Latvia often focus on the role of Latvian as official and main societal language. Yet, Latvian society is highly multilingual, and families with home languages other than Latvian have to choose between different educational trajectories for their children. In this context, this paper discusses the results of two studies which addressed the question of why families with Russian as a home language choose (pre)schools with languages other than Russian as medium of instruction (MOI). The first study analyses family narratives which provide insight into attitudes and practices which lead to the decision to send children to Latvian-MOI institutions. The second study investigates language attitudes and practices by families in the international community of Riga German School.
Methodology:
The paper discusses data gathered during two studies: for the first, semi-structed interviews were conducted with Russian-speaking families who choose Latvian-medium schools for their children. For the second study, a survey was carried out in the community of an international school in Riga, sided by ethnographic observations and interviews with teachers and the school leadership.
Data and analysis:
Interviews and ethnographic observations were subjected to a discourse analysis with a focus on critical events and structures of life trajectory narratives. Survey data were processed following simple statistical analysis and qualitative content analysis.
Findings/conclusions:
Our data reveal that families highly embrace multilingualism and see the development of individual plurilingualism as important for integration into Latvian society as well as for educational and professional opportunities in the multilingual societies of Latvia and Europe. At the same time, multilingualism and multiculturalism, including Russian, are seen as a value in itself. In addition, our studies reflect the bidirectionality of family language policies in interplay with practices in educational institutions: family decisions influence children’s language acquisition at school, but the school also has an impact on the families’ language practices at home. In sum, we argue that educational policies should therefore pay justice to the wishes of families in Latvia to incorporate different language aspects into individual educational trajectories.
Originality:
Language policy is a frequent topic of investigation in the Baltic states. However, there has been a lack in research on family language policy and school choices. In this vein, our paper adds to the understanding of educational choices and language policy processes among Russian-speaking families and the international community in Latvia.
Mit der Jahrestagung 2021 lenkte das Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) den Blick auf die Wechselbeziehung zwischen Sprachgebrauch bzw. sprachlichem Handeln und der gesellschaftlich-politischen Wirklichkeit. Damit ist der Gegenstandsbereich der Tagung umrissen: Es geht um die politische und gesellschaftliche Dimension von Sprache. Das Institut entspricht mit diesem Tagungsthema in besonderer Weise seiner Aufgabe, die Sprache in der Gegenwart und in ihrer jüngeren Geschichte zu untersuchen.