LINGUIST List 25.982
Thu
Feb 27 2014
FYI: New Resource on
Language Attitudes: Corpus KiDKo/E
Editor for this issue:
Uliana Kazagasheva <ulianalinguistlist.org>
Date: 27-Feb-2014
From: Heike Wiese
<heike.wiese
uni-potsdam.de>
Subject: New Resource on
Language Attitudes: Corpus KiDKo/E
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We are pleased to announce the launch of
KiDKo/E, a new resource with sociolinguistic
data.
KiDKo/E captures spontaneous data from the
public discussion on “Kiezdeutsch”, a way of
speaking that emerged in multiethnic urban
areas of Germany. The corpus assembles emails
and readers' comments posted in reaction to
media reports on Kiezdeutsch. Postings are
mostly in German, with a smaller part in
English (in reaction to a report in The
Economist).
By doing so, KiDKo/E provides spontaneous data
on attitudes, perceptions, and ideologies
relating, among others, to such domains as
- migration
- multilingualism
- standard language
- social class and 'ethnicity'
The corpus can be reached at:
http://www.kiezdeutschkorpus.de/corpus3.html
It can be accessed either through ANNIS, an
open-source platform that supports
browser-based search and visualization of
corpus data, or it can be downloaded, in a
low-tech version, as an Excel file.
KiDKo/E is associated with the
KiezDeutsch-Korpus (KiDKo,
www.kiezdeutschkorpus.de),
a corpus of spontaneous conversations in
informal peer group situations in urban Germany
(planned to become publicly available by the
end of this year).
Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis;
Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Subject Language(s):
German (deu)
Page Updated: 27-Feb-2014