Ulrike Freywald
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ulrike Freywald is involved.
Articles
2026 Chapter 10. “Schöne Pyjama für Sie, Abla!”: Forms of address in language contact: Usage patterns and pragmatics of address at a linguistically highly diverse street market in Berlin “You can say you to me”: Address in German, Kretzenbacher, Heinz L., Horst J. Simon and Christa Dürscheid (eds.), pp. 198–221 | Chapter
This chapter investigates the structure and usage of nominal and pronominal forms of address at a much-frequented, linguistically diverse street market in Berlin. This hotspot of urban multilingualism shows particularly interesting ways of address as people make use of manifold linguistic… read more
2015 Total reduplication as a productive process in German The Why and How of Total Reduplication: Current Issues and New Perspectives, Rossi, Daniela (ed.), pp. 905–945 | Article
In this paper I discuss two types of total reduplication that prove to be productive in Contemporary German: real-X Reduplication (RXR) and Durative Reduplication (DR). The function of the former, RXR, is to restrict the meaning of a word to its prototypical content (cf. Buchbuch ‘book-book; real… read more
2011 Kiezdeutsch as a multiethnolect Ethnic Styles of Speaking in European Metropolitan Areas, Kern, Friederike and Margret Selting (eds.), pp. 45–73 | Article
This paper deals with Kiezdeutsch, a way of speaking that emerged among adolescents in multiethnic urban neighbourhoods of Germany. We argue for a view of Kiezdeutsch as a multiethnolect, based on a recognition study that tested the acceptability and evaluation of such features by adolescents from… read more