Minority Languages and their Reception in Germany

Centre for Minorities Research Podcast · Nov 28, 2022 · 34m

Aimée Capraro, an undergraduate student of German at the University of St Andrews, discusses the place of minority languages in Germany with a special focus on the linguistic varieties spoken by people of Turkish descent in urban areas in Germany and social attitudes towards them. In this episode, she breaks these varieties down from a linguistic standpoint before examining their cultural and political significance.

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Tanager, ‘Learning to be German: immigration and language in Berlin’, in The Sociolinguistic Economy of Berlin, ed. by Theresa Heyd, Ferdinand von Mengden and Britta…