Subverting the Monolingual Paradigm

Mapping the Creolization of German—an Artistic Research Method

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ID6451259
AuthorsMoses März (0000-0001-7089-8731, University of Potsdam, Berlin, Germany, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume61
Issue2
Pages93-101
Publication date2025-05-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSeminar A Journal of Germanic Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0037-1939 • E-ISSN: 1911-026X
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3138/seminar.61.2.4
OpenAlexW4410849252
LanguageEN
References cited9

Kreolisierung der deutschen Sprache is an experimental mapping in which I depict a loose network of verbal artists working with the German language who are moving beyond nationalist monolingualism by mixing a variety of linguistic influences and subverting standardized grammar in their texts and songs. In this article I outline the main questions, intentions, and considerations driving the artistic research rendered visible by the map. The article describes the shape and direction of the drawing, as well as the larger geography of knowledge in which it is located. The multidirectional manner in which the map shares the research findings on which it is based, as well as the inherent commitment by which decolonial mapmaking bridges the borders that modern academic disciplines uphold between closely related geographies of knowledge, constitutes an artistic research method that contributes to decolonizing academia

Aesthetics · Art · Creolization · German · Linguistics · Sociology · Gender Studies in Language · History · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Second Language Learning and Teaching

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