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Indexing Kiez – Zur Deethnisierung juventulektaler Stile
Indexing Kiez – Deethnization of Adolescent Speechstyles

Author(s): Nils Bahlo, Sharon Lohse
Subject(s): Anthropology, Language studies, Sociolinguistics, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: deethnization; Kiezdeutsch; indexing street; youth language;

Summary/Abstract: Monolingual speakers have in the past been less associated with ethnolectal speaking. However, various corpora increasingly show elements that were assigned to Kiez- or Turkic-German – even in monolingual data. In our article we show prominent features of ethnolectal speech-styles by giving three examples, which no longer directly reflect the extra-linguistic dimension ethnicity. In conclusion, we advocate locating the data in the style-spectrum of adolescents, which should indicate a street-credibility and toughness of the speakers.

  • Issue Year: 45/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 35-49
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: German