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Kiezenglish: Multiethnic German and the Global English Debate

by Irmengard Rauch , Lindsay Preseau
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781433164118
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
  • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
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  • Pages: 146
  • Original Price: GBP 76.05
  • Language: English
  • Edition: New ed
  • Item Weight: 377 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Linguistics / General

Is English a threat to language diversity in Europe? This question has been hotly debated in language policy and planning in Germany and the EU, particularly in institutional and business contexts. However, the effects of English on non-official minority speech communities, such as speakers of immigrant languages and multiethnolects, are rarely addressed in this context. This book presents two case studies involving speakers of multiethnolects and refugee youth in Germany which show that these populations, stereotyped as non-proficient English speakers, are using English in creative and innovative ways. For these communities, speaking English is not a choice, but a matter of the ability to survive, to cross borders, and to create new identities in a foreign country. Drawing on corpus linguistic and ethnographic fieldwork data, this book sheds light on how validating these (standard and non-standard) Englishes represents an important act of empowerment and social justice for these communities. Situated at the interdisciplinary intersection of sociolinguistics and applied linguistics, this book is of broad appeal to linguists, language educators, language policy makers, and to the German Studies community at large.

Lindsay Preseau is Assistant Professor - Educator and Director of Basic Languages in the Department of German Studies at the University of Cincinnati. She holds a PhD in Germanic Linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley.

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