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The Sociolinguistics of Place and Belonging: Perspectives from the marginsEdited by Leonie Cornips and Vincent A. de Rooij
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society 45] 2018
► pp. 55–88
Cité Duits
A polyethnic miners’ variety
Peter Auer | Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Leonie Cornips | Meertens Instituut (KNAW) & Maastricht University
In the late 1930s and 1940s, locally born children of immigrant coal miners in Tuinwijk, a neighborhood in the village of Eisden in Belgian Limburg, developed a way of speaking among themselves which they later labelled Cité Duits. Having become coal miners themselves, they continued to use Cité Duits as an in-group language throughout their lives when working underground as well as in their private lives. We will show that Cité Duits is a hybrid variety resulting from combining elements of German, Belgian Dutch and the Maasland dialect spoken in Belgian Limburg through focusing and sedimentation. We argue that Cité Duits developed and continues to be employed as a symbolic language for expressing group identity
Published online: 07 March 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/impact.45.04aue
https://doi.org/10.1075/impact.45.04aue
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