Germany speaking? Rap and Kanak Attak: Dominant Discourses on Language
(2005) p.215-236- Abstract
- Young people with migration background in Germany are often seen as having or producing problems. In this chapter, I discuss aspects of the German dominant discourse which still constructs this society as culturally and linguistically homogenous. I confront this perspective with language-based expressions by Germans with migration experience in e.g. Rap texts or political manifestos. While it is necessary to avoid simplified idealizations, I suggest that it would be beneficial for all members of German society not to position young people with migration background as deficient.
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- author
- Schmitt, Irina LU
- publishing date
- 2005
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Rap, Germany, language, youth, migration
- host publication
- Negotiating Transcultural Lives: Belongings and Social Capital among Youth in Transnational Perspective
- editor
- Hoerder, Dirk ; Hébert, Yvonne and Schmitt, Irina
- pages
- 215 - 236
- publisher
- V&R unipress
- ISBN
- 978-3899711790
- project
- “Transfer of Cultural Praxes and Norms: Allochthonous and Autochthonous Youths between Parents, School, and Peer Group”
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- id
- a4f577ee-de80-4cd4-aabb-8227ccf00773 (old id 1301482)
- date added to LUP
- 2016-04-04 11:33:37
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- 2021-02-16 15:55:54
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