Language, Literature, and the Negotiation of Identity

This study examines the way in which the identity of foreign workers and foreign writers in Germany is negotiated on the basis of language use and literary activity. The book presents an in-depth look at the history of immigration to Germany since the turn of the century and a description of the soc...

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Үндсэн зохиолч: Fennell, Barbara A.
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Хэвлэсэн: The University of North Carolina Press 2026
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description This study examines the way in which the identity of foreign workers and foreign writers in Germany is negotiated on the basis of language use and literary activity. The book presents an in-depth look at the history of immigration to Germany since the turn of the century and a description of the social situation of foreigners living there at the dawn of the twenty-first century. It emphasizes the variable nature of the German used by foreign workers in the Federal Republic and documents changes that have occurred in the field of Gastarbeiterlinguistik, in particular the shift of focus away from universal features to interpersonal aspects of foreigner-native communication. Foreign worker German is neither pidgin nor creole but rather a range of lects, some of which are fossilized at a very low level, others of which progress toward the standard dialect. The work concludes with a selective history of foreign worker literature, which emphasizes the parallels between linguistic and literary development in the immigrant community.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1714552026-02-12T10:30:00Z Language, Literature, and the Negotiation of Identity Fennell, Barbara A. Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFB Sociolinguistics This study examines the way in which the identity of foreign workers and foreign writers in Germany is negotiated on the basis of language use and literary activity. The book presents an in-depth look at the history of immigration to Germany since the turn of the century and a description of the social situation of foreigners living there at the dawn of the twenty-first century. It emphasizes the variable nature of the German used by foreign workers in the Federal Republic and documents changes that have occurred in the field of Gastarbeiterlinguistik, in particular the shift of focus away from universal features to interpersonal aspects of foreigner-native communication. Foreign worker German is neither pidgin nor creole but rather a range of lects, some of which are fossilized at a very low level, others of which progress toward the standard dialect. The work concludes with a selective history of foreign worker literature, which emphasizes the parallels between linguistic and literary development in the immigrant community. 2026-02-12T10:29:58Z 2026-02-12T10:29:58Z 2020 book 9781469656526 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/171455 eng The University of North Carolina Press f46e5319-8d09-4c63-b9f2-a13480694ab4 9781469656526 190 open access
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