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Alemannisch und der Deutschunterricht.
Author(s) -
Raphael Berthelé
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
linguistik online
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1615-3014
DOI - 10.13092/lo.98.5945
Subject(s) - german , standard language , orality , literacy , linguistics , context (archaeology) , language education , identity (music) , sociology , pedagogy , history , art , philosophy , archaeology , aesthetics
In this contribution, I describe the evolution of the role that Alemannic dialects and Standard High German play in the Swiss German educational context. Drawing on a content analysis of a collection of school-related documents from 1950 to 2014, I describe the change in the roles attributed to dialects and the standard language, respectively. The task of German-language education shifts from the two-fold goal of teaching standard-language literacy and cultivating the “pure” dialect in the 1950s to a clear prioritization of standard language skills both in orality and in literacy towards the end of the twentieth century. I discuss these changes in relation to the backdrop of the media discourse on identity, language, multilingual education, language norms, and other social issues such as migration.

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