Sprachideologien und Sprachmanagement in sprachbiographischen Interviews: Sprecher mit tschechischem Migrationshintergrund in Bayern
Language ideologies and language management in interviews on language biogra phy: Speakers with Czech migration background in Bavaria

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with language ideologies and their impact on language acquisition and maintenance as represented in interviews on language biographies with speakers with a Czech migrant background who came to Bavaria before the sensitive age and belong to the 1,5 generation. The paper shows in detail how family language management serves someone’s monolingual interests in an exogamous (mixed) family. It shows further, how the host country’s and the country of origin’s language regimes, which also include the evaluation of languages, conflict within an individual migrant language biography and how language ideologies in plural intertwine to shape individual language ideology within a biographic narrative. One of the sample interviews was therefore analyzed closer to offer a “thick description” of the linguistic world of a (female) migrant and of her strategies to ideologically legitimize her own discursive position and to delegitimize others’ positions.

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