CRC 1412/1: Register Perception in a Multilingual Context of German: Differentiation, Awareness, and Attitudes (SP C07)
At a glance
Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics
General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages
Individual Linguistics, Historical Linguistics
DFG Collaborative Research Centre
Project description
The research project investigates how formal and informal registers are perceived in the multilingual context of German spoken in Namibia. Through corpus-linguistic and experimental methods we investigate register differentiation (e.g., What new registers of German emerge in multilingual settings?), awareness (e.g., What features do language users pick up in their perception of register distinctions?), and attitudes towards different registers (e.g., What role do different types of features play for sociolinguistic evaluations and associations?).