A new role for Low German? Language insertion as bilingual practice in the process of language shift

A New Role for Low German

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ID3656998
AutoresGertrud Reershemius (0000-0003-0906-6199, Aston University, autor correspondente)
Ano2011
Volume15
Fascículo3
Páginas383-397
Data de publicação2011-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Sociolinguistics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1360-6441 • E-ISSN: 1467-9841
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9841.2011.00487.x
OpenAlexW1542026582
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas24

n This article analyses language insertion as a bilingual communicative practice, applying a functional, speaker-focused approach to the study of sociolinguistics and language contact. The article is based on a study of contact phenomena in a formerly diglossic region in Northern Germany, where the previously spoken language ? Low German ? is in the process of being replaced by the dominant standard variety, German. It examines regional publications in order to establish the linguistic techniques by which Low German elements are incorporated into the Standard German texts and the communicative purposes that they serve. The paper concludes that in the process of language shift an emblematic repertoire from Low German is created which can be applied into the dominant contact language, German, for specific communicative purposes

German · Humanities · Linguistics · Political science · Sociolinguistics · Sociology · Standard language · Linguistic Education and Pedagogy · Linguistic research and analysis · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Philosophy