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Direct linkMilojicic, Višnja – Foreign Language Annals, 2023
Previous research has established a connection between Standard Language Ideology (SLI) and prestige and power and has highlighted the existence of a dominant cultural narrative that idealizes Standard High German as a provider of cultural elevation and unity, viewing nonstandard Germanic varieties as exotic. Nevertheless, scholars have likewise…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Dialects, German, Second Language Learning
Davydova, Julia; Ilg, Angelika – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
The study explores the extent to which linguistic globalisation and the ever increasing dominance of English shapes the perceptions of linguistic diversity in traditional sociolinguistic milieus. We set out to investigate the attitudes of 142 respondents from Vorarlberg, an Austrian province, towards their home dialects, High German, a local…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Variation, Sociolinguistics
Renner, Julia; Kaltenegger, Sandra – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
The starting point for this research is an eTandem initiative between learners of Mandarin Chinese and German. The participants mainly learnt the dominant variety of their target languages (German Standard German, Mainland Chinese Standard Mandarin), however, their tandem partners are speakers of a non-dominant variety (Austrian Standard German,…
Descriptors: Language Variation, German, Computer Mediated Communication, Standard Spoken Usage
Kaiser, Irmtraud; Kasberger, Gudrun – First Language, 2018
Children in Austria are exposed to a large amount of variation within the German language. Most children grow up with a local dialect, German standard language and 'intermediate' varieties summarized as 'Umgangssprache'. Using an ABX design, this study analyses when Austrian children are able to discriminate native varieties of their L1 German…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Acquisition, Language Variation, Auditory Perception
Peer reviewedPetig, William E. – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 1997
Presents results of a study of the use of the dative with the genitive prepositions "(an)statt,""trotz,""wahrend" and "wegen" based on two corpora. Notes that a comparison of these two computerized corpora shows that no clear trend exists regarding the increased use of the dative with these prepositions in…
Descriptors: College Students, Computational Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedDalton-Puffer, Christiane; And Others – World Englishes, 1997
A study investigated attitudes of 132 Austrian university students of English toward three native English accents (standard British, near-standard British, American) and two Austrian non-native accents. Results confirm non-native accents' low status, and indicate personal preference for whichever accent is most familiar from overseas visits. Most…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes
