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Vor 30 Jahren gab es in Westdeutschland nur ganz wenige Lexikologen und Lexikografen, die sich mit Neologismen befassten. Infolgedessen hatte man damals kein richtiges Neologismenwörterbuch: Heute sieht es ganz anders aus. Allein am Institut für Deutsche Sprache sind zwei Neologismenwörterbücher in Printausgabe entstanden, nämlich „Neuer Wortschatz. Neologismen der 90er Jahre im Deutschen" und „Neuer Wortschatz. Neologismen im Deutschen 2001-2010". Hinzu kommt OWID, auf dem ihre Online-Version und jüngste Neologismen den Benutzern zur Verfügung stehen. Parallel dazu gibt es zahlreiche Aufsätze bzw. Beiträge über Neologie (Neologismenlexikologie) und Neographie (Neologismenlexikographie). In dieser Arbeit werden die Termine des Wortschatz- und Sprachwandels, hinsichtlich der Neologismen und Archaismen in der deutschen Sprache näher untersucht. Dabei erfolgt zu den letzteren beiden Phänomenen eine genauere Betrachtung.
Picnick and Sauerkraut: German–English intra-writer variation in script and language (1867–1900)
(2023)
Intra-writer variation is a wide-spread phenomenon that nevertheless has received only limited research attention so far. Different addressees, bi- and multilingualism, or changing life phases are among the factors that contribute to such variation. In a study of diary entries by one writer covering three decades (1867–1900), this chapter investigates patterns of intra-writer variation between German and English (language and script) in nineteenth-century Canada, with a special focus on single word borrowings, person reference and place names. The long-term perspective provides a unique insight into the dynamics of a bilingual writer’s emerging sociolinguistic competence as reflected by the flexible yet structured use of his resources within the social space of a bilingual community.
Neologisms, i.e., new words or meanings, are finding their way into everyday language use all the time. In the process, already existing elements of a language are recombined or linguistic material from other languages is borrowed. But are borrowed neologisms accepted similarly well by the speech community as neologisms that were formed from “native” material? We investigate this question based on neologisms in German. Building on the corresponding results of a corpus study, we test the hypothesis of whether “native” neologisms are more readily accepted than those borrowed from English. To do so, we use a psycholinguistic experimental paradigm that allows us to estimate the degree of uncertainty of the participants based on the mouse trajectories of their responses. Unexpectedly, our results suggest that the neologisms borrowed from English are accepted more frequently, more quickly, and more easily than the “native” ones. These effects, however, are restricted to people born after 1980, the so-called millenials. We propose potential explanations for this mismatch between corpus results and experimental data and argue, among other things, for a reinterpretation of previous corpus studies.
This paper reports on an ongoing international project of compiling a freely accessible online Dictionary of German Loans in Polish Dialects. The dictionary will be the first comprehensive lexicographic compendium of its kind, serving as a complement to existing resources on German lexical loans in the literary or standard language. The empirical results obtained in the project will shed new light on the distribution of German loanwords among different dialects, also in comparison to the well-documented situation in written Polish. The dictionary will have a strong focus on the dialectal distribution of Polish dialectal variants for a given German etymon, accessible through interactive cartographic representations and corresponding search options. The editorial process is realized with dedicated collaborative web tools. The new resource will be published as an integrated part of an online information system for German lexical borrowings in other languages, the Lehnwortportal Deutsch, and is therefore highly cross-linked with other loanword dictionaries on Polish as well as Slavic and further European languages.