Kiezdeutsch as a multiethnolect

Ulrike Freywald | University of Potsdam

Katharina Mayr | University of Potsdam

Tiner Özçelik | University of Potsdam

Heike Wiese | University of Potsdam

This paper deals with Kiezdeutsch, a way of speaking that emerged among adolescents in multiethnic urban neighbourhoods of Germany. We argue for a view of Kiezdeutsch as a multiethnolect, based on a recognition study that tested the acceptability and evaluation of such features by adolescents from a multiethnic and a monoethnic neighbourhood of Berlin. Our results support a view of Kiezdeutsch as a linguistic system of its own, with features that establish a distinct way of speaking that is associated with multiethnic neighbourhoods, where it cuts across ethnicities, including speakers of non-migrant background.

Published online: 22 December 2011
https://doi.org/10.1075/silv.8.03fre

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