Germanistische Linguistik

This paper examines the notion of ‘power’, a term preferably used in social sciences and cultural studies, seeking to establish it as a relevant research object in cultural linguistics. Although the relationship between language and power is...

This article defines materiality as a crucial dimension of social and cultural practices, framing it within three key contexts: the mediality connected to language (insofar as it brings forth cultural aspects), the conditions shaping the perception...

The aim of the article is to discuss the epistemological and practical research potential of the category of ‘mentality’ in the linguistic research tradition and to demonstrate its usefulness for cultural linguistics. The cultural linguistic...

This article is devoted to the various concepts of ‘practice’ which have increasingly found their way into the work of numerous disciplines under the premise of a practice turn in recent decades. In a first step, the concept is modelled...

A characteristic feature of Upper German dialects is so called preterite decay. The fundamentals of this process are well understood. What is unknown, however, is the period of the later restitution of the preterite in written German in Switzerland....

In Standard German, the possessive pronoun sein ‘his, its’ is usually restricted to masculine and neuter possessors. However, in certain regional German dialects sein can also be used if the antecedent is feminine, making this...

Based on an analysis of historical reference corpora, the paper shows that the active construction consisting of sein + past participle, in conjunction with postural verbs, fulfills different functions that represent different degrees of...

The paper deals with the chances and limits of the corpus linguistic method for questions in the field of historical dialectology, in comparison to previous, “traditional” methods of dialectology. For this purpose, the results of a corpus...

The paper deals with the Mecklenburg colloquial language in the 19th century. Due to the lack of sources, this regional variety has been insufficiently recorded, both with regard to its structure and to its variation and use. Research...

Historical dialectology has a long tradition in the German-speaking world as the study of historical dialects, understood as spoken, highly localized language varieties. As such, it has developed methods that aim at meticulously analyzing traces of...

This study is part of our work on a corpus-based, variation-sensitive grammar of Middle Low German. The paper examines Middle Low German appellatives ending in -e based on data from the Reference Corpus Middle Low German / Low Rhenish (1200–1650)....

What opportunities does a framesemantic approach offer for historical language attitudes research? What are the risks to be considered when frames are used as a discourse analysis tool? This article sheds light on these two questions. It...

This essay deals with the German-Jewish community in Sosúa in the north of the Dominican Republic. This town was founded in the 1940s by a group of about 750 Jewish refugees from Germany, Austria and Eastern Europe and has not yet been researched...

In the midst of the Carnic Alps lies a German-based minority, Sauris/Zahre, which has migrated from the Austrian border region since the 12th century. This article explores the question of which measures are being taken to (re-)vitalise the zahrar...

Although the tun-periphrasis is stigmatized in Standard German, it often appears in dialects and extraterritorial varieties of German. While it is frequently used in Texas and Australia, it is extremely rare in Transylvania and Namibia. The...

This paper investigates how linguistic norms are negotiated in German-speaking localities in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The aim of the article is to find out whether linguistic norms still play a role in a heterogeneous multilingual context in which...

This paper focuses on the evaluation of Sater Frisian language usage in Wikipedia discussions. Sater Frisian is mostly used in oral communication. However, Sater Frisian language use is increasing in written communication e. g. Sater Frisian...

This paper focuses on the extent to which chunks/constructions used for the acquisition or development of language competence can function as a means of (re)vitalizing a minority language. This is illustrated by the German minority language in...

This article critically discusses the question of the standardization as well as revitalization of the endangered creole language Unserdeutsch. What are the motives, what are the starting conditions, what needs to be considered and how likely is...

The village of Puhoi in New Zealand has been founded 1863 by Bohemian immigrants coming from the Egerland in the West of the todays Czech Republic, where the German dialect of Northern Bavaria has been spoken. The inhabitants kept their dialect for...

This paper critically evaluates the academic orthography of Iraqw by examining emerging spelling conventions in social media. Iraqw (Southern Cushitic) is a primarily oral minority language spoken in Tanzania. Community-oriented language resources...

Recent decades have seen an increase in processes and projects related to the standardization and revitalization of minority languages. Starting from an overview of the language policy situation in Brazil, this article focuses on a contrastive...

Using the example of the minority variety Plodarisch, the article explains different graphemic implementations of a minority variety and their variation. For the minority in Sappada/Plodn (Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Northern Italy), a coexistence of...