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Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Acquisition across the LifespanEdited by Anna Ghimenton, Aurélie Nardy and Jean-Pierre Chevrot
[Studies in Language Variation 26] 2021
► pp. 251–276
Chapter 11The standard-dialect repertoire of second language users in
German-speaking Switzerland
Andrea Ender | University of Salzburg
The coexistence of dialect and standard language
is a pronounced characteristic of everyday life in the Swiss German
context. This paper examines the linguistic repertoire of second
language users in the Swiss context and how they deal with
dialect-standard variation in a structured interview situation with
a dialect speaker and a standard language speaker. The data from
eight second language users, with English or Turkish as their first
language, illustrate different patterns in the use of dialect,
standard, and a mixture of both codes. Among the eight selected
speakers, high ability to discriminate dialect from standard
language can be observed, and only some L2 users show frequent
mixing of dialect and standard, which violates the strict separation
of the two codes according to L1 speaker norms. Furthermore, the L2
speakers only rarely change their usage of the codes according to
their interlocutor. The results reveal that integrating dialect and
standard language in the L2 repertoire is challenging. L2 users –
depending on their constructed identity within the Swiss German
community and influenced by their L1 social categorization of
codes – compose their linguistic repertoire with more or less
openness to dialect, standard, or integrated use of both codes.
Keywords: standard-dialect variation, linguistic repertoire, German, Switzerland, second language acquisition, code-mixing
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Constructing a dialect-standard L2 repertoire in an Alemannic
context
- 2.1The relevance of learning sociolinguistic variation in an L2
- 2.2Distinguishing dialect and standard language
- 2.3The ability to align to native speakers and variation in the input
- 3.Methods
- 3.1Participants
- 3.2Data
- 3.3Analysis
- Transcription
- Segmentation
- Annotation
- 4.Results
- 4.1Patterns of dialect and standard use in elicited free speech
- 4.2Nature of the code-mixing
- 5.Discussion and conclusion
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Notes -
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Published online: 16 August 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/silv.26.11end
https://doi.org/10.1075/silv.26.11end
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