Linguistic characterization of Turkish immigrants in Germany through foreigner talk

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K00612
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 02060:Linguistics-related
• Research Institution: The Open University of Japan
• Principal Investigator: Hayasi Tooru 放送大学, その他の部局, 副学長 (20173015)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: フォーリナー・トーク / 移民 / ドイツ語 / 言語接触 / 言語の簡略化 / 統合コース

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Based on the assumption that School A in the Neukoelln district of Berlin is a kind of immigrant community, where many immigrants and refugees gather to take integration courses, I investigated the extent to which the "foreigner talk" of the instructors, who are key members of the community, is shared by the students who joined the community later. The main data consist of recordings of interviews in German with an instructor and his five former students from Spain, Turkey, Poland, Kazakhstan, and Syria, as well as results of a questionnaire survey of School A's instructors. Analysis of collected data of "foreigner talk" revealed that pragmatically motivated word orders, which may be considered to be a characteristic of the German "foreigner talk", are shared to a considerable extent between the instructor and former students.

Free Research Field

言語学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

移民コミュニティを言語的に特徴付ける試みは、その言語的多様性や複合性を強調して結論とすることが多かった。つまり、共通性がない点が共通するという、消極的な特徴付けに留まっていたと言える。本研究課題では、簡略化された言語レジスタであるフォーリナー・トークに注目することにより、これまで周辺的現象として扱われてきたフォーリナー・トークに、相手を同一コミュニティの成員として言語的に包摂する働きがある可能性を示唆するデータを示すことで、移民コミュニティの言語的特徴付けに新たな視点を提供した。