Aspekte der Mehrsprachigkeit in Luxemburg. Positionen, Funktionen und Bewertungen der deutschen Sprache. Eine diskursanalytische Untersuchung (1983-2015).

Doctoral thesis (2016)

The thesis provides a broad insight into the current position of the German language in Luxembourg. It describes the linguistic knowledge and behavior of the different speech groups, that are acting in ... [more ▼]

The thesis provides a broad insight into the current position of the German language in Luxembourg. It describes the linguistic knowledge and behavior of the different speech groups, that are acting in the domains "education", "mass media", "immigration and integration", "xenophobic discourse", "language policy", "language and literature", "PR" and "languages for publicity" and shows how the dominant, luxembourgish, speech group is adapting linguistically to the evolution of the society. The conclusions are based on a corpus of 835 press articles, on interviews with experts from the different fields of the society and on further material (statistics, parlamentiary debates, administrative writings, examples of german exercises written by pupils ...). [less ▲]