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This article adresses one function of dialects showing their importance of controlling everyday language. On the example of Low German, a vernacular spoken in Northern Germany, the function of identity is shown and explained. Firstly the understanding of biography is given, followed by an overview about the research undertaking about biographical studies in linguistics, especially in dialectology and Low German philology. The main part concerns the exemplary analysis of an interview of a dialect speaker. The aim of the article is to show in detail the identity function of dialects and the chances qualitive methods can contribute to linguistic researches.
Ein Schtetl in der Stadt – Jüdische Identitätsräume in Texten von Martin Beradt und Sammy Gronemann
(2010)
The concern of this thesis is a discussion of the way German-Jewish identity manifests itself in two literary texts before and after 1933. Using the examples of Sammy Gronemann’s novel Tohuwabohu and Martin Beradt’s Die Straße der kleinen Ewigkeit, it offers a textual analysis of two works which share close connections in terms of subject matter, style, and their respective authors’ background, but are historically divided by the fundamental experience of the rise of National Socialism in Germany.
I argue that space is a crucial factor through which identity is constituted in each text, both of which use and partially subvert the romanticized image of the Eastern European shtetl brought to Germany by authors such as Arnold Zweig in the aftermath of World War I. Space in this context always has a twofold quality to it. It functions as a space of identity, but also as a space of identification through which a group of people label others as either belonging or not belonging to a specific space. Furthermore, both texts reject monolithic definitions of Jewish identity, emphasizing instead the diversity of Jewish life in Europe before the Rise of National Socialism.
Este artigo procura resumir e ilustrar argumentações centrais de estudos teóricos e ensaios sobre a literatura austríaca (Menasse; Schmidt-Dengler; Sebald, Weiss, Zeyringer) que se referem, especificamente, à questão da existência de diferenças entre essa literatura e outras em língua alemã. Para elucidar os debates mais recentes, os contrastamos com argumentações representativas acerca da literatura austríaca das primeiras décadas do pósguerra. Ao comparar as diferentes abordagens, podemos perceber que a germanística austríaca atual deixou de se esforçar na construção de um "mito austríaco" e na procura do que seria a "essência" da literatura desse país. Passou da construção à análise do mito austríaco e do contexto sócio-histórico no qual se insere a produção literária da Áustria. Há diferenças argumentativas substanciais entre abordagens tradicionais com viés essencialista e as dos referidos teóricos. Ao mesmo tempo, é significativa a insistência por parte de germanistas e pensadores contemporâneos em se aceitar a existência (muitas vezes ignorada) de uma literature austríaca cuja especificidade – resultante, sobretudo, de peculiaridades dos contextos históricopolíticos nos quais se inserem os escritores austríacos – não deve ser ignorada em pesquisas da área.