2024
2024-09-05
10.17192/regiolingua.2024.1.1.8742
urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0010-2024-324-87429
keine Angabe
Hanoverian – A Bygone Vernacular?
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
public -Frei abrufbar
The fact that a particularly standard-oriented German is spoken in Hanover is a well-known topos among most language users in the German-speaking area and often beyond. However, even Hanover’s inhabitants are rarely aware that there is also an urban mixed variety of High and Low German spoken in the city, comparable to the mixed varieties (“Missingsch”) in Hamburg or Berlin. Until well into the 20th century, there is plenty of evidence of this so-called Hanoverian (“Hannöversch”) being used, at least in literature. Research into the extent to which this Eastphalian Missingsch branch is still vital as a vernacular and part of linguistic knowledge has so far been a desideratum of North German dialectology. The project The City Language of Hanover examines the current linguistic reality of the Lower Saxony state capital and deliberately includes Hanoverian. Thus, Hanoverian features were integrated into the catalogue of variables and Hanoverian test sentences were included in the perceptual-linguistic part of the study. Furthermore, questions on (historical) language use and knowledge of varieties were asked in the qualitative interview. The present article presents initial results on linguistic traces of Hanoverian from an object-language perspective and sheds light on existing knowledge and attitudes towards this variety.
Hannöversch
variational linguistics
mixed variety of High and Low German
Variationslinguistik
metasprachliches Wissen
metalinguistic awareness
Missingsch
urban vernacular
städtische Umgangssprache
Hanoverian
The fact that a particularly standard-oriented German is spoken in Hanover is a well-known topos among most language users in the German-speaking area and often beyond. However, even Hanover’s inhabitants are rarely aware that there is also an urban mixed variety of High and Low German spoken in the city, comparable to the mixed varieties (“Missingsch”) in Hamburg or Berlin. Until well into the 20th century, there is plenty of evidence of this so-called Hanoverian (“Hannöversch”) being used, at least in literature. Research into the extent to which this Eastphalian Missingsch branch is still vital as a vernacular and part of linguistic knowledge has so far been a desideratum of North German dialectology. The project The City Language of Hanover examines the current linguistic reality of the Lower Saxony state capital and deliberately includes Hanoverian. Thus, Hanoverian features were integrated into the catalogue of variables and Hanoverian test sentences were included in the perceptual-linguistic part of the study. Furthermore, questions on (historical) language use and knowledge of varieties were asked in the qualitative interview. The present article presents initial results on linguistic traces of Hanoverian from an object-language perspective and sheds light on existing knowledge and attitudes towards this variety.
Hannöversch
variational linguistics
mixed variety of High and Low German
2024-09-05
German
Variationslinguistik
metasprachliches Wissen
2024-09-05
application/pdf
metalinguistic awareness
Missingsch
Universitätsbibliothek Marburg
Publikationsserver der Universitätsbibliothek Marburg
Hanoverian – A Bygone Vernacular?
2024-09-05
2024
https://doi.org/10.17192/regiolingua.2024.1.1
1
North German language and literature. From Old Saxon to Masematte
Vol 1 No 1 (2024)
urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-00106
2944-2133
RegioLingua. Zeitschrift für regionale Sprache und Literatur
Deutschhausstraße 9, 35037 Marburg
Marburg
Philipps-Universität Marburg
Periodical
https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0010/cover.png
3196261-0
application/pdf
urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0010-2024-3245
PeriodicalPart
https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0010/2024/324/cover.png
1
2024
urban vernacular
2024-09-05
städtische Umgangssprache
urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-0010-2024-324-87429
https://journals.uni-marburg.de/0010/2024/324/8742/8742.png
Stefan
Ehrlich
Ehrlich, Stefan
Hana
Ikenaga
Ikenaga, Hana
Hanoverian
article
https://doi.org/10.17192/regiolingua.2024.1.1.8742
PRESERVATION_MASTER
VIEW
PDF
PRESERVATION_MASTER
application/pdf
8446
//journals.uni-marburg.de/regiolingua/article/download/8742/8446
8446