Published by De Gruyter

Phonai

Texte und Untersuchungen zum gesprochenen Deutsch

Edited by: Walter Haas, Werner Kallmeyer and Peter Wagener

ISSN: 0939-5024

Volumes

Book 2006

Geschriebener Dialekt in Bayerisch-Schwaben

Ein Vergleich indirekt erhobener dialektaler Laienschreibungen mit ihren lautschriftlichen Entsprechungen

Stefan Kleiner

Volume 48 in this series

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This empirical study on the region of Bavarian Swabia (Bayerisch-Schwaben) investigates how dialect speakers render the pronunciation of their basic local dialect(s) in written form using the 'ordinary' alphabet (so-called indirect method). Tables and maps are then used to compare these spellings with phonetic transcriptions collected at the same places. The results are interpreted, and individual comparisons are also made with the material indirectly collected by Wenker in the late 19th century.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110960778
ISBN:: 978-3-484-23148-1
ISBN:: 978-3-11-096077-8
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Phonetics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Dialectology
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

Book 2002

Die Aussprache der Standardsprache in der deutschen Schweiz

Ingrid Hove

Volume 47 in this series

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The central concern here is the description and discussion of the findings of an empirical study on standard-language pronunciation in German-speaking Switzerland. Detailed consideration is also given to the factors potentially responsible for individual variations and to user attitudes to the standard language. A further section of the book is given over to discussion of the status of the standard language in Switzerland and the problems and history of standard pronunciation. Proposals are made for a Swiss pronunciation norm and a re-engagement with the phonological system.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110919936
ISBN:: 978-3-484-23147-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091993-6
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Phonetics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

Book 2001

Warschauer Jiddisch

Ewa Geller

Volume 46 in this series

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The book contains a synchronic description of the phonetic structure of Warsaw Yiddish. This takes the form of a linguistic analysis of spoken Yiddish on the basis of interviews with the last remaining speakers of this Warsaw dialect, which is now on the verge of extinction. The recorded material is given in the second part of the book in a number of versions: phonetic/prosodic, Yiddish, German and Polish. Alongside a detailed description of the vowel and consonant systems there is also a taxonomy of sentence-phonetic phenomena representing an entirely new departure in the field of Yiddish studies. In addition typological issues posed by Yiddish morphosyntax are addressed from the perspective of the intermediate status of Yiddish between the Germanic and Slavonic language families.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110919943
ISBN:: 978-3-484-23146-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091994-3
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Other Languages of Europe
Subject:: European Languages, other
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Linguistics, other
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: Germanic Languages, other
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

Book 2000

Teil II Analysen und Dokumente

Anne Betten, Miryam Du-nour, Monika Dannerer

Part of the multi-volume work Sprachbewahrung nach der Emigration - das Deutsch der 20er Jahre in Israel

Volume 45 in this series

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This volume contains 105 transcripts dealing with language and supplements Phonai volume 42 (= Part I) which contains 165 excerpts from interviews with German-speaking Jewish emigrants to Palestine/Israel largely on biographical subjects. The CD enclosed contains 41 of these excerpts and conveys an acoustic impression of the high proficiency and fluency of the speakers, all between the age of 60 and 100. The subsequent linguistic analysis divides into 10 subsections examining the sociolinguistic backgrounds of the cultivated 'educated' German displayed by the speakers and its grammatical and stylistic characteristics. Together the two volumes document and describe a variety of German distinguished first of all by its striking orientation to written and literary standards and models, and secondly by occasional lexical enrichments from the Hebrew-speaking world surrounding the speakers. This historically unique variety of German is doomed to disappear with the last generation of emigrants.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110919950
ISBN:: 978-3-484-23145-0
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091995-0
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: General Jewish History
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Phonetics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Language Contact
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1999

Dialektausgleich im Lëtzebuergeschen

Zur phonetisch-phonologischen Fokussierung einer Nationalsprache

Peter Gilles

Volume 44 in this series

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This empirical study sets out the historical and synchronic dynamics of Letzebuergish dialects (Luxembourg), drawing on methods taken from dialectology, sociolinguistics, and phonetics/phonology. It transpires that inner-Luxembourg dialect harmonization plays a role in homogenizing regional variation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110935066
ISBN:: 9783110935066
ISBN:: 9783484231443
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Phonetics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Dialectology
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

Book 1998

Sprachliche Akkommodation und soziale Integration

Sächsische Übersiedler und Übersiedlerinnen im rhein-/moselfränkischen und alemannischen Sprachraum

Birgit Barden, Beate Großkopf

Volume 43 in this series

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The volume examines the mutually reinforcing effects of linguistic self-adjustment and integration into a new social environment. It describes the phonetic/phonological changes observed over a period of two years in a group of people moving from Saxony to South-West Germany shortly before and after the Wende in 1989. In addition, it examines the way in which the various processes of integration influence linguistic adaptation. Social integration is charted with reference to the concepts of social networks and attitudes to the cultural environment.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110935073
ISBN:: 978-3-484-23143-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-093507-3
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Phonetics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Dialectology
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1995

Teil I Transkripte und Tondokumente

Part of the multi-volume work Sprachbewahrung nach der Emigration - das Deutsch der 20er Jahre in Israel

Volume 42 in this series

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In 165 extracts from interviews conducted in Israel between 1989 and 1994, a total of 121 German-speaking Jews able to escape from Nazi Germany in the thirties are recorded here, communicating personal memories and views on various subjects. They originate from a variety of areas in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic and Poland. Equally varied are their family and social background, the ways in which they found their way to Palestine/Israel and the different milieus they now live in. What they all have in common is the cultivated German of the educated upper middle-classes of the nineteen-twenties in which they memorably relate their experiences. The CD included contains 38 of these extracts, thus providing -- together with the book -- an unparalleled piece of linguistic and historical documentation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110910841
ISBN:: 978-3-484-23142-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-091084-1
Subject:: Jewish Studies
Subject:: Jewish History
Subject:: General Jewish History
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Phonetics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Language Contact
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1994

Gesprochene Sprache

Transkripte und Tondokumente

Angelika Redder, Konrad Ehlich

Volume 41 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110945751
ISBN:: 978-3-484-23141-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094575-1
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Phonetics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

Book 1997

Tonaufnahmen des gesprochenen Deutsch

Dokumentation der Bestände von sprachwissenschaftlichen Forschungsprojekten und Archiven

Peter Wagener, Karl-Heinz Bausch

Volume 40 in this series

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From the early seventies in particular, sound recording has been a frequent research tool in the field of linguistics. The volume documents the recording of spoken German made for linguistic purposes with the aim of providing an overview of the material thus collected and encouraging multiple utilisation of data assembled with considerable effort and expense.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110945768
ISBN:: 978-3-484-23140-5
ISBN:: 978-3-11-094576-8
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Phonetics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: Max Niemeyer Verlag

Book 1992

Gesamtkatalog der Sprachaufnahmen des Deutschen Spracharchivs

Teil I: Katalog; Teil II: Katalog und Register

Walter Haas, Peter Wagener, Mitarbeiterinnnen und Mitarbeitern des Instituts für deutsche Sprache

Volume 38/39 in this series

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110945775
ISBN:: 9783110945775
ISBN:: 9783484231382
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Levels of Linguistic Analysis
Subject:: Phonetics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: German
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 1988

Lubliner Jiddisch

Ein Beitrag zur Sprache und Kultur des Ostjiddischen im 20. Jahrhundert anhand eines Idiolekts

Mogens Dyhr, Ingeborg Zint

Volume 37 in this series

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On the basis of a phonological analysis of a tape recording in Eastern Yiddish made by a speaker from Lublin, the authors begin by establishing the contrasts to standard German. They go on to discuss the problems posed by the analysis of an idiolect, ranging from the question of specifically idiolectal realisation to the production of a 'normative' Eastern Yiddish variety for the Lublin area. The authors further examine the recording from the point of view of modern language contact research. Finally, they attempt to place this individual utterance in an ethnographic and above all a culture-historical context.