{"product_id":"gastarbeiterdeutsch-linguistic-characteristics-of-second-generation-german-turks-in-germany-von-sener-salturk","title":"Gastarbeiterdeutsch \u0026 Linguistic Characteristics of Second Generation (German)-Turks in Germany","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,3, University of Duisburg-Essen (Anglistisches Institut), course: Pidgins \u0026amp; Creoles, language: English, abstract: [...] Their children, the (so-called) second generation who were mostly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eborn in Germany had a not so fundamentally different relationship to Germany which is\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eactually supposed to be their home country. There are, however, some vast differences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebetween these generations, especially in terms of their German language proficiency. Most of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe second (or third\/fourth) generation of Gastarbeiter today are bilingual speakers, generally\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emore fluent in German than in the respective language of their parents. Of course, these\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egenerations share more ¿distinctive¿ features than sole linguistic ones: the majority of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eguest workers¿ children are, in full contrast to their parents, in many ways integrated into\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGerman society and do have a much closer relationship to Germany as a whole. Whereas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emost Germans are monolingual, speaking ¿some¿ (more or less acceptable) English or French\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eor Italian etc., the Germans (!) with foreign descent have two languages at their disposal ¿\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhether they succeed in both languages (or in either of them!) is, of course, another question,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emany of which, however, can be tackled using a socio-linguistic approach. For the purpose of this paper I shall focus on some linguistic phenomena of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGastarbeiterdeutsch, not only referring to the (highly restricted) German language proficiency\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof the first generation of Turkish guest workers (circa 1960-1975) but also on their offspring\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(circa 1975-). Since I am of Turkish descent myself ¿my father, a guest worker himself, had\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehis ¿first shift¿ in a German coal-mine in August 1965- I have been (and still am) dealing very\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eclosely with the language-related particularities (and oddities) of a Turkish dominated\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eparents¿ house somewhere in North Rhine-Westphalia. In order to explain these, to my mind,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eone has to investigate profoundly the linguistic ¿equipment¿ of the respective speakers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ealongside with their ¿social whereabouts¿ and the country they immigrate to and where they\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elive, especially the linguistic ¿challenges¿ they have to face. For this purpose, a comparative\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eanalysis of Turkish and German is indispensable. Since it goes without saying that an\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eelaboration on all of these aspects would undoubtedly go beyond the scope of this paper, I\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eshall concentrate on the language equipment of the ¿first generation Turks¿ and their children,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003especifically on code-switching phenomena. What is required in the first place, I think, is an\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eoverall outline of both Turkish and German, especially of Turkish.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783656303527\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783656303527","offer_id":39432438055005,"sku":"9783656303527","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/6f4fb15e-01a6-494f-8f0b-dd3daedb5faa.jpg?v=1777956527","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/gastarbeiterdeutsch-linguistic-characteristics-of-second-generation-german-turks-in-germany-von-sener-salturk","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}