Language biographies and the analysis of language situations: on the life of the German community in the Czech Republic

Autor:	Jirí Nekvapil
Rok vydání:	2003
Předmět:	Czech Linguistics and Language History Comprehension approach First language Foreign language Language and Linguistics language.human_language Linguistics German Language transfer Sociology of language language Language education
Zdroj:	International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 2003
ISSN:	1613-3668 0165-2516
DOI:	10.1515/ijsl.2003.038
Popis:	The article analyses the linguistic, social, and political situation that has developed on the territory of the Czech Republic in the course of the twentieth century. The materials used are biographical accounts provided by people of German origin who live in the Czech Republic. A language biography is a biographical account in which the narrator makes the language, or rather languages, the topic of his or her narrative - in particular the issue of how the language was acquired and how it was used. The biographical method is discussed below as a sociolinguistic method that provides a means of understanding language situations. I deal with the problem of constructing individual language biographies as well as with the typical language biography. I propose a tentative typical language biography of Czech Germans, arguing that the narrative genre of language biography should be included reflexively in the description of language situations.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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