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https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-14800| Publication type: | Article in scientific journal |
| Type of review: | Peer review (publication) |
| Title: | Migration, Sprachkontakt und Ethnisierung: "Deutsche sind nun einmal so" : Ethnisierung versus Kommunikationskultur und Mentalität |
| Authors: | Werlen, Erika |
| DOI: | 10.5169/seals-978232 10.21256/zhaw-14800 |
| Published in: | Bulletin suisse de linguistique appliquée |
| Volume(Issue): | 1995 |
| Issue: | 62 |
| Page(s): | 57 |
| Pages to: | 74 |
| Issue Date: | 1995 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Vereinigung für Angewandte Linguistik in der Schweiz |
| ISSN: | 1023-2044 |
| Language: | German |
| Subject (DDC): | 305: Groups (age, origine, gender, income) 400: Language, linguistics |
| Abstract: | When someone classifies another person's appearance or behaviour as "typically German" or "simply the way the Swiss are", we are inclined to see this as a gross simplification of reality or even as the expression of an ethnocentric, xenophobic or racist attitude. However, ethnographic and sociolinguistic fieldwork on language contact situations which arise as a consequence of migration within the German-speaking area, both within and across national borders, have led me to the conclusion that such classifications, which I will call ethnicizations, are sometimes made not out of laziness or prejudice, but simply in an attempt to come to grips with the perplexing diversity of human actions and reactions. I will sketch five arguments which show that ethnicizing classifications are indeed sometimes instrumentalized in the way just hinted at, and I will present examples of such instrumental ethnicizations which have cropped up in the course of what I call reflective discussions, a kind of oral elicitation technique. Given the importance of instrumental ethnicizations, it seems to me that folk theories of language contact and conflict should become a major focus of research in the areas of language contact and intercultural pragmatics. In the context of such investigations, the concept of mentality and communicative culture - the style of verbal interaction characteristic of a particular "ethnic" or socio-economic group - will have to play a major role. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/14800 |
| Fulltext version: | Published version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | CC BY 4.0: Attribution 4.0 International |
| Departement: | Applied Linguistics |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen Angewandte Linguistik |
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Werlen, E. (1995). Migration, Sprachkontakt und Ethnisierung: “Deutsche sind nun einmal so” : Ethnisierung versus Kommunikationskultur und Mentalität. Bulletin suisse de linguistique appliquée, 1995(62), 57–74. https://doi.org/10.5169/seals-978232
Werlen, E. (1995) ‘Migration, Sprachkontakt und Ethnisierung: ‘Deutsche sind nun einmal so’ : Ethnisierung versus Kommunikationskultur und Mentalität’, Bulletin suisse de linguistique appliquée, 1995(62), pp. 57–74. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5169/seals-978232.
E. Werlen, “Migration, Sprachkontakt und Ethnisierung: “Deutsche sind nun einmal so” : Ethnisierung versus Kommunikationskultur und Mentalität,” Bulletin suisse de linguistique appliquée, vol. 1995, no. 62, pp. 57–74, 1995, doi: 10.5169/seals-978232.
WERLEN, Erika, 1995. Migration, Sprachkontakt und Ethnisierung: „Deutsche sind nun einmal so“ : Ethnisierung versus Kommunikationskultur und Mentalität. Bulletin suisse de linguistique appliquée. 1995. Bd. 1995, Nr. 62, S. 57–74. DOI 10.5169/seals-978232
Werlen, Erika. 1995. “Migration, Sprachkontakt und Ethnisierung: “Deutsche sind nun einmal so” : Ethnisierung versus Kommunikationskultur und Mentalität.” Bulletin suisse de linguistique appliquée 1995 (62): 57–74. https://doi.org/10.5169/seals-978232.
Werlen, Erika. “Migration, Sprachkontakt und Ethnisierung: “Deutsche sind nun einmal so” : Ethnisierung versus Kommunikationskultur und Mentalität.” Bulletin suisse de linguistique appliquée, vol. 1995, no. 62, 1995, pp. 57–74, https://doi.org/10.5169/seals-978232.
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