248 Ac a Linguis ica Li huanica LXXXIII (Linguis ic Ac s o he Li huanians)
KLAUS GEYER
Süddänische Uni e si ä in Odense
His main a eas o esea ch a e language a ia ion,
subs anda d a ie ies, digi al p agma ics, media linguis ics,
gende linguis ics, Ge man as a o eign language, p o essional
communica ion, audio- isual ansla ion.
I'm no su e wha you' e alking abou .
Wha 's he ma e wi h you?
Spokesmen o he
LAIENDIALECTOLOGY and
Linguis ic lea ning
I can.
Ko galima išmok i iš a miškų pasikalbėjimų
žinynų, p iski iamų nemokslinei dialek ologijai
i kalbo y ai
The anno a ion
Ph ase books o a elle s o me chan s ha e ypically been o ien ed owa ds s anda d
a ie ies and good language use. Dialec ph ase books a e a ela i ely young phenomenon, a
leas as a as Ge man is conce ned. They seem o ul ill a di e en pu pose han egula
ph ase books do: They a e no made (and bough ) o easing communica ion wi h people whose
language one does no mas e su icien ly, bu me ely o en e ainmen . This a icle
examines how dialec al ph ase books on a mac o scale as well as in de ail make use o olk
linguis ic a i udes and belie es o ul ill his unc ion. KEYWORDS: ph ase books, dialec al
ph ase books, olk dialec ology, olk linguis ics, Ge man dialec s.
This is ANOTACIJA.
I is no uncommon o people o speak in ongues, bu i is no uncommon o people o
speak in ongues. The pu pose o he empo a y allowances is o compensa e o he new
a i als, in pa icula he poul y a me s. A ody ų, kad i jų ikslas bū ų kiek ki oks nei
įp as ų pasikalbėjimų knygelių, nes pi mieji nė a leidžiami (i pa duodami) am, kad
S aipsniai A icles 249 and
Was man aus Dialek -Sp ach üh e n ü die Laiendialek ologie
und Laienlinguis ik le nen kann
paleng in ų bend a imą su žmonėmis, ku ie nepakankamai ge ai į aldę kalbą, jie labiau
o ien uo i į eigiamą skai y ojo emocinę būseną. This is he i s ime ha he Eu opean
Pa liamen has o ed in a ou o he bill. This is an analysis o he a icle, as a
mac o-linguis ic aspec o he a miškų pasikalbėjimų žinynuose išsamiai pasinaudo a liaudies kalbinėmis nuos a omis, ikin is, kad jos a liks minė ą unkciją.
ESMINIAI ŽODŽIAI: he wo ds o he passages, he slang o he passages, he
dialec ology o he liaudies (nemokslinė), he linguis ics o he liaudies, he slang o
he ocabula y.
1. EINLEITUNG
Sp ach üh e ü Reisende und Kau leu e gib es schon sei ielen Hunde Jah-
Howe e , i was only wi h he eme gence and de elopmen o educa ional and leisu e
ou ism ha hey de eloped in o a s able ype o ex . Howe e , hei basic
s uc u es and heme design can be aced back om oday o he ea ly models.
Mode n language guides a e usually based on s anda d a ie ies. Colloquial language
o slang is only used on an excep ional basis. A special g oup o language guides a e
Dialec Language Guides, which ha e been launched by a ew publishe s o a ew
yea s. A i s glance, he dialec language guides seem o be e y simila o he
well-known s anda d a ie ies o language guides, bu a signi ican unc ional
di e ence c ys allizes on close examina ion: while s anda d language guides
p ima ily se e as communica ion aids, dialec language guides seem p ima ily o
en e ain. A numbe o aspec s can be iden i ied, which is why he ex ype Dialec
Language Guide is conside ed a wo hwhile subjec o s udy. This is he i s ime in
he his o y o he Eu opean Union ha he e m 'pe cep ion dialec ical' o
'non-linguis ic esea ch' has been used. This con ibu ion is based on a b oad
unde s anding o lay linguis ics.1 Acco ding o he concep o Folk Linguis ics by
Niedzielski, P es on Lai (2000: iii), laymen a e o be unde s ood as " hose who a e no
ained p o essionals in he a ea unde in es iga ion". Fo language as a subjec ,
his means he o e whelming majo i y o a language communi y. Language is
pa icula ly p edes ined o employmen by laymen, because i is immedia ely and
wi hou special equipmen o special knowledge qui e accessible and almos
omnip esen . Membe s o language communi ies ha e hei own ideas and opinions
abou language and languages, al hough in some places hese may also be shaped by
s ong, school-based no ms and co ec ness. Ne e heless, he concep s
1 Mo e de ails on his Geye 2021.
This is KLAUS GEYER
250 Ac a Linguis ica Li huanica LXXXIII by Lai: wi hin he subjec o language an
ex emely ele an esea ch his he bzgl. Da a, me hods, hypo heses, analyses
be eich ü die Linguis ik da .
Laienlinguis ik im hie e wende en Sinne um ass zweie lei: Eine sei s is
and in e p e a ions no su icien o he cu en linguis ic s anda ds, o en
mo e o an e alua ion han o a linguis ic conside a ion ca ied ou by laymen and
gene ally o laymen. On he o he hand, lay linguis ics also includes he s udy o
his, which is he e o e o be unde s ood as a genuine lay linguis ics.2 The e a e
also nume ous name books o help pa en s choose a sui able i s name, o en on
Sp achbe ach ung du ch die (wissenscha liche) Linguis ik. Das Konzep de
Volkse ymologie beispielsweise, wo in „die his o ische Sp achwissenscha mi
einem Quän chen Übe heblichkei […] das laienha e alsche E ymologisie en
im Gegensa z zu wissenscha lichen E ymologie ausd ück “ (Augs 2002: 144),
he basis o he ac ual, i.e. his o ical, meaning o hei child (e.g. Wei e shaus
2004). Howe e , he mos p ominen lay linguis ic subjec a ea o Ge man is
aspec s o language con ac , language a ia ion and language change and hei
e alua ion. These include, o example, he discussions on Anglicisms, he spelling
e o m and, cu en ly, linguis ic gende . Changes a e usually iewed nega i ely.
In addi ion o a wide ange o communica ion and s yle guides, ins uc ions on g amma ical
co ec ness and i s limi s, on alleged g amma ical logic o on popula g amma ical e o s play a majo
ole in lay linguis ics. On he side o he s udy o he s udy o language by laymen, in addi ion o he
undamen al s udy o An os o Ge man (1996), he wo ks o P es on (since 1982) on lay o pe cep ual
dialec ology a e o be men ioned, including in pa icula he wo pionee ing olumes o he Handbook o
Pe cep ual Dialec ology (P es on 1999 and Long, P es on 2002). Hund (1992) made an inspi ing
con ibu ion o he Ge man language a an ea ly s age. Lay dialec ology has now also eached smalle
language communi ies, see o example Aliūkai ė e al. (2017) o Li huanian. The so-called olk
e ymology is linguis ically qui e in o ma i e and has i s place in he con ex o a "synch onous
e ymology", discussed by Augs (1975, 2002). 3 See also S auss' (2018) s udy on he o ical ad ise s. 4 In
ecen yea s, o he linguis ic disciplines ha e been examined in e ms o hei lay linguis ic concep s,
c . Albu y (2014) on language planning and language policy, he con ibu ions in Ha dy, He ling & Pa zel
(2015) on lay linguis ic discou ses on language in he
S aipsniai A icles 251 o
Was man aus Dialek -Sp ach üh e n ü die Laiendialek ologie
und Laienlinguis ik le nen kann
Howe e , dialec guides do no seem o ha e been s udied om a layman's
pe spec i e un il now, al hough his, as shown below, is a e y ewa ding
endea o . The a icle is s uc u ed as ollows: In he ollowing sec ion 2, he
ex ype Sp ach üh e is highligh ed. Sec ion 3 is add essed o he
Kaude welsch dialec guides o he Reise Know-How publishing house, whose
da abase o guides ([…]F änkisch […] Das Deu sch de F anken[…]) is p o ided in
Analyse bilden. Sie we den aus laiendialek ologische Pe spek i e un e such
(Abschni 4). Eine exempla ische Mik oanalyse eines ausgewähl en Dialek -
sec ion 5. Finally, sec ion 6 summa ises he esul s and akes a look.
2. The ypes o spokesmen
Speech guides a e o be ega ded as a ela i ely young ype o ex , which
eme ged only in conjunc ion wi h a el guides (e.g. Baedeke ) du ing he
eme ging ou ism in he middle o he 19 h cen u y. And as one who, hanks o
ansla ion apps and simila ools, like Nadobnik (2019: 415) belie es, migh soon
become supe luous again. A b ie look a his o ical p edecesso s e eals an
as onishing s uc u al con inui y. The Dunhuang Manusc ip s om he la e 10 h
cen u y. Acco ding o Shaik (2014), hey con ain a con e sa ion aid o a ele s
on he Silk Road and o (Buddhis ) pilg ims wi h he languages Chinese, Sansk i
and Sakish (an Os ian language). E en a li le olde a e he Kassel Glossen om
he beginning o he 9 h cen u y. wi h he language pai La in and Old High Ge man
in he Ba a ian dialec . Fo example, hey con ain he ollowing passage, which is
landscape-sensi i e om oday's poin o iew (Glück 2002: 68):
S ul i sun omani sapien i sun paio i modica es sapien i in omana plus haben
s ul i ia quam sapien ia ole sin uualha spahe sin peig ia luzic is spahe in uualhum
ma e hapen olahei i denne spahi is he name o he ci y in which i is loca ed.
The Welsh a e s upid, he Ba a ians a e cle e . The Welsh a e no e y cle e , hey a e mo e
s upid han cle e . Pasquale (2011) and Pasquale & P es on (2013) o lay linguis ic ideas on he
i s sen ence. Lea ning and eaching o eign languages.
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252 Ac a Linguis ica Li huanica LXXXIII (Linguis ic Ac s o he Li huanians)
F om he end o he 9 h. The Old Ge man Con e sa ions, on he o he hand, a e "a
kind o small book o con e sa ions con aining Ge man inn dialogues wi h
ansla ions in o La in" (Glück, 2002: 68). A cen al ole in he de elopmen o he
ex ype Sp ach üh e is played by he epea edly men ioned (e.g. Hend icks
2014: 29; Ge nen z e al. 1988: 2123) I alian-Ge man language book Libe in olga o by
Geo g on Nü nbe g, who is also he i s known DaF eache , as Ede (2010: 57)
emphasizes. W i en o I alian me chan s in con ac wi h High Ge man, i
consis s o h ee pa s: A he beginning s and a e Sachgebie37). La e ,
al eady p in ed wo ks on lea ning Ge man a e qui e o ien ed on he s uc u e o
en geo dne e Wö e und Wendungen, ge olg on eine Lis e on Ve ben mi
bes imm en Flexions o men und zule z zwei „Handelsdialoge“ (Pausch 1972:
Geo g on Nü nbe g's Sp ach üh e (c .
2002: 419 . Happiness ).
In mode n imes, he name Baedecke has been in use since he 19 h cen u y.
Rep esen a i e o a beginning democ a iza ion o a el. I c ea es a whole new
need o ou guides, which also makes language unde s anding a lo mo e impo an .
The i s edi ion o The T a elle 's 2019 Manual o Con e sa ion in English, Ge man,
F ench and I alian was published by Baedeke Ve lag in 1836, ollowed by edi ions o
Ge man and F ench-speaking as well as a sho guide o he Russian language along
wi h a collec ion o con e sa ions and ocabula y ( om edi ion Manuel de langue
usse 1833, Manual o he Russian Language 1914). I emains a special y o he
Baedeke a el guide Sweden and No way alongside he main a el ou es h ough
Denma k; Handbook o a elle s om 1879, om he beginning o include a sec ion
on Danish-No wegian and Swedish g amma : g amma , ph ases, ocabula y o a el
use, as is o en he case wi h mode n ou guides o his day. Howe e , specialized
language guides a e no only a ela i ely young ype o ex , hey ha e ha dly been
explo ed so a , a leas om a linguis ic pe spec i e. An excep ion is he ecen
wo k o Nadobnik (2019), which ocuses on a compa ison o Ge man and Polish language
guides, bu also a whole se ies o impo an obse a ions on he
Tex ing is gene ally employed.
Wi h he inclusion o digi al echnical capabili ies, Nadobnik de ines he
language guide as a e e ence wo k sui able mainly o a el (o o o he
communica ion pu poses, including au onomous lea ning) (mos o en as a
pocke book, bu also in he o m o da a and o sound ca ie s such as an
iPhone app o a

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und Laienlinguis ik le nen kann
MP3-Da ei) wi h samples o linguis ic ac ion in ypical e e yday si ua ions
(along wi h o he in o ma ion on p onuncia ion, g amma , geog aphy, also
p o ided wi h wo d lis s o a dic iona y) o all who ha e no o li le o eign
language knowledge (Nadobnik
2019: 141).
Rega dless o he medial ma e iali y, in line wi h Nadobnik (2019: 135), he
ollowing can be conside ed as cons i u i e elemen s o a language guide:
1) an in oduc o y pa wi h in oduc ion and able o con en s, as well
as 2) pa e ns o communica i e ac ions (sc ip s, dialogue sequences,
Dialoge) als Ke nelemen .
Als wei e e zen ale Elemen e sind zu be ach en
3) ein Wö e e zeichnis in Fo m on Wo lis en ode kleinen Wö e bü-
che n (in w i ing and possibly also in image), as well as 4) a b ie g amma
and 5) in o ma ion on p onuncia ion, which (a) as a ansc ip ion o he
p onuncia ion by ansli e a ion o phone ic ansc ip ion; and b) be
demons a ed by means o sound ca ie s such as audio casse es, CDs,
MP3 iles.
Added
6) g aphic elemen s such as maps, illus a ions, pho os, ables and pic u e
boa ds o display on he one hand, and 7) o he elemen s such as sample
ex s o le e s o coun y and cul u al in o ma ion on he o he .
In he ollowing sec ion, he Kaude welsch Sp ach und Dialek üh e a e
p esen ed.
3. The Kaude wellian language
Dialec o he Füh e
3.1. Kaude welsch language guide
Die Kaude welsch Sp ach üh e des Reise Know-How Ve lages sind im Kon-
ex des au kommenden indi iduellen Rucksack-Tou ismus de 70e Jah e zu
I would like o ask he P esiden -in-O ice o he Council whe he he is awa e o
he ac ha he Council o Minis e s o he Eu opean Communi ies has
adop ed a esolu ion on he si ua ion in he o me Yugosla ia.
This is KLAUS GEYER
Ac a Linguis ica Li huanica LXXXIII 254 and i s annexes
A e some o e unne s in he au ho g oup […]Globe o e w i e o
be o e “ wi d 1981 de e s en Reise üh e und wenig spä e ab 1983 auch mi
dem Band „Indonesisch (Bahasa Indonesia)“ de e s e Kaude welsch Sp ach-
Glo üh e b ough o he ma ke . The choice o he name Kaude welsch o he
se ies may a i s su p ise, bu o example he Digi al Dic iona y o he
Ge man Language (dwds.de) indica es as he meaning o Kaude welsch […]
con used and incomp ehensible, e oneous language[…] and he Duden Online
Dic iona y (duden.de) […] mixed om se e al languages, incomp ehensible
language, p onuncia ion[…]; Howe e , he nega i e Deund conno a ion (dwds.de:
[…]de aluing[…]) is used in he publishing se ies in a posi i e way in he sense o :
[…]The linguis ic esul o ying o communica e wi h people whose
You can' speak he language.
Cu en ly (July 2020) he se ies o language guides comp ises 248 olumes, which a e
o e ed as pocke books in A6 o ma wi h a olume o 120-160 pages a p ices o
usually less han 10 eu os. The language guides a e also a ailable elec onically in
PDF o ma and a e la gely supplemen ed by audio accompanying ma e ial,
consis ing o audio iles o he w i en example wo ds and sen ences. Acco ding o
publishe s, he se ies comp ises 137 […]o icial languages[…] (see Kaude welsch
sp ach üh e ), wi h a highly di e si ied o e o plu icen ic languages wi h la ge
language communi ies: 18 i les o Spanish, 14 o English, 12 o A abic, 7 o
F ench; The e a e also 18 language guides o Ge man as a o eign language, 11 slang
language guides, some culina y language guides and also he se ies Dialec […] o
Dialec s o Ge man.
The Kaude welsch language guides unde s and hemsel es, as can be seen om he in oduc ion
o he olumes (see he e as an example Bd. 54 Li huanian o 1999), as "speake s" wi h whose help one
can " eally" lea n o speak and unde s and he language o he "people on he s ee " (Jähne
1999 6). I is emphasised ha li le alue is a ached o media ion and media ion. The wo ding o
g amma ical ules is laid down. G amma ical phenomena a e named using he Ge man e ms known
om he Ge man p ima y school didac ics: 1., 2., e c. Case ( o nomina i e, geni i e, e c.), o ewo d
and su ix (whe e p e ix and su ix a e mean ), ela i e wo ds ( o p eposi ions), middle wo ds
( o pa iciples) hings o his a e he Rhae o-Romanesque o he popula ion o Chu (Uppe
Ge man Kaue ), who we e known o hei ac i i y as a eling ade s and shopkeepe s, o bu
5 Die E ymologie on Kaude welsch is nich eindeu ig geklä : Das zwei e Komposi ionsglied
-welsch ü ‘ omanisch’ is dabei unp oblema isch, im Gegensa z zu kaude -. Als mögliche Bedeu-
speak caude n in a meaning […]undeu lich, kolle n (like a u h) […], supposedly (see. Cle e 1989;
concep ual con usions such as ime and ime o gende and gende , e c. A ema kable linguis ic
peculia i y o he language guides is he wo d- o -wo d ansla ions o he gi en example ph ases
This is Duden 2014.
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und Laienlinguis ik le nen kann
usw., eine P axis, die nu o de g ündig die Gegens ände ein ache zugänglich
mach . Die Ve meidung e mein lich schwie ige F emdwö e wi d e kau mi
and sen ences: he sou ce language is p esen ed in hal - a p in wi hou segmen a ion o uni s
below he wo d limi , ollowed by a line wi h lexical and g amma ical glossa ies o he wo ds and
inally a line wi h an idioma ic ansla ion inse ed, see he ollowing example om Ge man Jähne
(1999: 74):
A e you a good pe son?
FW, is i possible o smoke?
Can I smoke?
This cla i ica ion o linguis ic s uc u es wi hou explici me a-language
in o ma ion, e.g. in he o m o g amma ical ules, is in ended o enable he use
o he language guide o o m new sen ences independen ly wi h he help o he
dic iona y acco ding o exis ing pa e ns.
3.2. The Kaude welsch dialec guide
The Kaude welsch dialec guide se ies basically ollows he same s uc u al and design p inciples
as he language guides; I is no necessa y o use glossy wo ds, p obably because hey a e no
conside ed necessa y. As a a ge g oup, hey a e called " a elle s", o whom " o eign-sounding
sounds and exp essions" o he dialec s a e o be opened up. The ac ha i is less a means o
communica ion wi h he ancien s han a medium wi h an en e ainmen unc ion is made clea by
he mul iple e e ences o he e ms "humou ", "language ea s" and "image- ich language" o
"language as a wo ld iew", c . 6 FW in he glossa y s ands o "ques ion wo d" (ques ion a icle);
he diac i ics […] and […] a e no no mally w i en; They indica e he place and ype o he accen . 7
I should be explici ly poin ed ou ha o he publishe s also o e simila p oduc s (see [X] =
Saa land, Ba a ian, Hessian, Swabian, F ench, Swiss Ge man, Kölsch, T ie ) om he Anaconda
publishing house in Cologne; Polyglo dialec guide: [X] (wi h [X] = Ba a ian, Swabian) om he
publishing house G ä e and Unze , Munich.
z. B. die Reihen „Langenscheid humo olle Sp ach üh e : [X] ü An änge “ (mi [X] = Bai isch,
Schwäbisch, Ruh po , Sächsisch, F änkisch, Kölsch, Badisch); „Meine e s en 270 Wö e au [X]“
This is KLAUS GEYER
Ac a Linguis ica Li huanica LXXXIII he laiendia lec ologically enligh ening
desc ip ion o he se ies (exempla y wo ds, ypes o speech, puns and sayings
on kaude welsch bai isch, de In e ne in o ma ion zu Kölbl 2009):
Kaude welsch Dialek s ell deu sche Dialek e und Munda en o . Die o igi-
ha exis in e e y dialec , he special humo o he people and hei way o
speaking […] all his makes a egion colo ul and in e es ing. Thanks o he simple
spelling, e en an un ained pe son can lea n almos any dialec . Howe e , a dialec
is ne e jus ano he way o speaking, bu i also e lec s a di e en way o
hinking, eeling and li ing. The e o e, a e a b ie in oduc ion o he phone ic
and g amma ical peculia i ies, Kaude welsch dialec guides concen a e di ec ly
on egionally ypical ph ases and ph ases. The loose sayings and linguis ic ea s
show he cha m o his mos ly pic o ial colloquial language. The Kaude welsch
Dialec se ies cu en ly comp ises 13 olumes (as o July 2020). These co e la ge
pa s o he Ge man-speaking a ea. They use in he i le pa ly he names
common in dialec ology (e.g. Saxon, Ba a ian), pa ly laienlinguis ic names (e.g.
Ruh deu sch), he la e especially when e e ing o a dialec egion ia he
name o he u ban cen e (e.g. Kölsch, Be line isch); Howe e , he bounda ies o
he u ban a ea a e no always clea . F om a dialec ological poin o iew, he e
a e almos ine i ably inaccu acies: o example, olume 106 […]Bai isch[…] deals
only wi h he Ba a ian in Ba a ia, no wi h he Ba a ian in he dialec ological
sense, which ex ends a beyond Ba a ia in he eas and sou h; Viennese ( ol. 78)
is as much a pa o he Ba a ian dialec as Ty olean ( ol. 236). Volume 186
[…]F ench[…] con ains Eas F ench, i.e. he dialec o he egion known as
F anconia in no he n Ba a ia, bu no Rhine o Moselle F ench, Cen al F ench,
Lowe F ench. Volume 116 names he "Ge man o he Alamanni" in Alsa ian, while
olumes 71 "Schweize üü sch" and 127 "Schwäbisch" also con ain Ge man
dialec egions. Ne e heless, he designa ions o he dialec s a e o be
unde s ood as lay linguis ically salien , as discussed in he ollowing sec ion 4. The
e m Kölsch can ce ainly be be e localized and associa ed wi h an idea o
mos speake s o Ge man han his o he (special) dialec ological e m.
Ripua ian would be possible.
F om he ecep ion pe spec i e, i is in e es ing o see which dialec s
appea ed i s in he se ies and which we e added la e . This may ce ainly
also be due o coincidences such as he a ailabili y o sui able au ho s in
S aipsniai A icles 263 and 263
Was man aus Dialek -Sp ach üh e n ü die Laiendialek ologie
und Laienlinguis ik le nen kann
(R3) AK1 18. This is he i s ime I' e seen i . June 2014
A bi o a mess ...
... in F anconia ne e hu s. By he way, F anken is he o he Ba a ia, he
egion ha always eels un ai ly disad an aged! The bookle is supposed o
b ing me o he "Uppe Ba a ians" on a F anconian le el. All igh , hen. ; -)
(R4) D17. Wha is i ? Janua y 2014
I'm F anke mysel , and i made me laugh.
- I 's a g ea gi .
- g ea excu sions o he many egions o
F anconia - he "F ench" is laughable - almos
e e y hing is exac ly as desc ibed in he book!! !
(R5) M 27 and Augus 2013 well esea ched, in small o ma and a g ea gi
The li le book, i has a small pocke o ma , is well buil and eally holds
many F ankish idioms eady and should be o much
I 's all igh . I 's all igh .
I was eally su p ised a how many well-known ph ases I ound in i .
In addi ion, he book con ains in e es ing in o ma ion abou he F anks and
e en con ains songs.
Especially iends om o he egions will ha e a lo o un wi h he book o
see i as an indispensable help; ) The p ice is eally ai and he well- esea ched
bookle is wo h e e y penny.
I 's a g ea gi o an o e - egional iend o ela i e.
(R6) TS 13. The ollowing able is inse ed: This Decision shall en e in o o ce on he wen ie h day ollowing ha o i s publica ion in he O icial Jou nal.
G ea gi o non-F ancs. I bough he book as a joke o my new
acquain ances. You' e om he no h and I'm om Uppe F anconia, so he e's
a ew "communica ion di icul ies" he e and he e:), came supe as a gi !
(R7) A19 This Decision shall en e in o o ce on he wen ie h day ollowing ha o i s publica ion in he O icial Jou nal.
My colleagues and I ha e gi en his bookle o a new colleague om Do mund
who has ecen ly mo ed o Nu embe g o he bi hday! She was h illed and
eage o ead i ! Bu i 's also a e y amusing ead o a F anconian.
(R8) SW 18. This is he i s ime I' e seen i . Janua y 2007
Fi e s a s and up
I didn' hink you could be so en e ainingly in o med abou ou F ankish
dialec ! The au ho knows how o p esen he F anks and hei dialec wi h
he op imal po ion o sa i e! ! The e o e, i e.
The S a Plus

This is KLAUS GEYER
264 Ac a Linguis ica Li huanica LXXXIII
D ei Beobach ungen allen bei de Auswe ung besonde s au : Die eigen -
The main unc ion o a language guide, i.e. helping wi h communica ion, is only
discussed in R6 (communica ion di icul ies wi h new acquain ances) and R7
( ecen ly mo ed o Nu embe g, new colleague om Do mund) as well as in R2
(challenge o non-F anks) and R5 ( iends om o he egions). In he o eg ound
is ob iously he humo ous con en , c . R2 […] unny eading[…], R4 […] o laugh a
ea s[…], R5 […]many smiles[…], R6 […]Gag[…], R7 […] e y amusing[…], R8 […]po ion o
sa i e[…]; Also he use o he (s e eo) ypical F ankish dialec exp ession
[…]Allmächd na![…] ([…]Ach du liebe Zei […], R3) is done in a humo ous way, such as he
Zwinke s- (R5). The dialec language guide hus appea s as a hyb id ex ype in
which he en e ainmen unc ion is cen al, supplemen ed by cul u al and
miley ;-) e deu lich . Da übe hinaus wi d de Dialek üh e o enba wenige
zu eigenen Lek ü e, sonde n als Geschenk e wende (R4, R5, R6, R7) und
dabei in diese Eigenscha seh posi i e aluie , gl. „supe “ (R4, R5), „ oll“
linguis ic in o ma ion. This la gely co esponds o he sel -desc ip ion on he
olded ex (emphasis in he o iginal): F ankish is mo e han a language […] much
mo e! Despi e all he egional di e ences in he language, he F anks ha e one
hing in common: hey always exp ess di ec ly wha hey wan and mean, and o en
in a a he bold and di ec way. Fa away om clichés, a ue F ankish man makes
a pa ol h ough he land o he goa bag, also known as he "be e hal o
Ba a ia". O e a housand wo ds and ph ases om he F ankish e e yday
ocabula y, a anged in a p ac ical way and illus a ed in a i id way, make
unde s anding p oblems disappea and o e an amusing insigh . (Sobisch 2007,
Klappen ex ) The "amusing insigh " is essen ially cons i u ed by a s a egy o
be e , since his is no necessa ily conscious, by p ac ices ha a e called
aliena ion (see Maas 1989; Geye 2013) and aliena ion (see Maas 1989). Exo icism (Eas
F ench) does no e e o es ablished o e en s anda dized g aphics. Dialec
au ho s, columnis s, songw i e s and o he in e es ed pa ies mus he e o e
de elop hei own g aphs o he espec i e dialec . Since i is mainly a ques ion o
poin ing ou he phone ic peculia i ies, one usually encoun e s so-called la , i.e.
we den können und die un e ande em au de Ebene de G aphie wi ksam sind.
Wie es ü Dialek e des Deu schen die Regel is , exis ie ü das F änkische
s ongly p onuncia ion-o ien ed g aphs (see Sei a 2006). Sobisch used in his
dialec guide
S aipsniai A icles 265 and 265
Was man aus Dialek -Sp ach üh e n ü die Laiendialek ologie
und Laienlinguis ik le nen kann
In F ench, he cha ac e in en o y is ha o S anda d Ge man, me ely ex ended
by he cha ac e <å>, which ep esen s a ca dinal owel 6ɔ/. The mos p ominen
phone ic cha ac e is ic o Eas F anconian is he absence o Fo is plosi es, wi h
he excep ion o k in he owel be o e owel (e.g. Ke wa […]Ki chweih[…]). So he e
a e la gely only Lenisbzw. lenized plosi e, w i en as <b, d, g>, liked in […] om a
s anda d Ge man pe spec i e […] unusual accumula ion. The sho ness o a owel is
indica ed, as in s anda d Ge man, by (a leas ) wo consonan signs, including
gemina es, in he syllable code, and occasionally, bu no con inuously, also in
loanwo ds ha do no ollow his pa e n in s anda d Ge man. This is Babb iga
[…]Pap ika[…]. The Lenis sc ip is also used in he syllable head a e […]. This does
no in ol e any addi ional o de ia ing sound in o ma ion compa ed o s anda d
Ge man, as he e is no o isplosi e he e ei he , bu in pa icula in combina ion
wi h he ig aph <sch> o […] […] a g aphema ical aliena ion: […]S e n[…], […]Spiel[…].
So while he g aphema ic cha ac e in en o y may la gely ma ch he s anda d
Ge man, he cha ac e combina o ics does no , and he phoneme-g apheme
a angemen also de ia es again and again. This is pa icula ly e iden in he case
o assimila ions and elision, which a e spelled ou as i […] again a e e ence o a la
g aph; See also z. B. Sem […]sen […], schd iggn […]s icken[…] (al hough no
schd iggng wi h ela plosi e […]) o g alln […] allen[…]; On he o he hand,
Jamme labbn (and no Jamme labbm […]Jamme lappen[…]) wi hou assimila ed
bilabial plosi e <m> in he ou le (103). […] is usually and in pa icula also ende ed in
con ac wi h ela obs uc o s wi h he dig aph […]ng, e.g. lachng […]lachen[…],
d inggngngng[…][…] […]d ink[…] (he e wi h ob ious misspelling […]ng[…], 22). Ano he
example o aliasing spelling is abb e ia ions wi h spelled syllabic le e names such
as Be-Dse ‘PC; He e, Peh-Zeh S anda d Ge man would also be s ange. Finally, i is
wo h men ioning ha in addi ion o g aphema ics, he e is a u he o m, which
is mo e s ylis ically based aliena ion. I consis s o ep oducing a dialec ical wis
in he ansla ion line in an ele a ed s yle. The s ylis ic disc epancy c ea es a
pe cep ion o (supposed) colloquial language o a pa icula dea ness o he dialec .
The ollowing
wede lau -, noch no mge ech e Sch eibung <äöü> ü den Diph hong <eu> in
Wö e n wie Lüchebäöüdl ‘Lügenbeu el’ ode Schbo ds äöünd ‘Spo s eund’.
spiel illus ie s ell e e end ü eine ganze Reihe ähnliche Wendungen das
Phänomen; eine adäqua e Übe se zung wä e beispielsweise ‘Wenn de T ompe-
e spiel , meins du, es jaul ein Hund.’:
KLAUS GEYER
266 Ac a Linguis ica Li huanica LXXXIII (Linguis ic Ac s o he Li huanians)
I he blacksmi h pain ed, i would be a dog. The a o his umpe e is
eminiscen o a howling dog. On he con en le el, he s ong s e eo yping in he
di ec ion o a olklo iza ion is no iceable, which se es he humo ousness
add essed, o example, in he olded ex . Especially in he hema ic chap e s,
he e is an o e -p opo iona e ocus on he hemes o si ua ions o a e n and
ca d game as well as swea wo ds and cu ses. The mac o s uc u e o he dialec
guide, howe e , ollows he con en ional pa e n o he ype o ex and basically
e en has a conside able o e lap in he hema ic chap e s wi h hose in he i s
pa o Geo g on Nü nbe g's Sp ach üh e o 1424. The olume begins wi h an
in oduc ion o he language o dialec wi h in o ma ion abou whe e and by how
many people he dialec is spoken and how i ela es o he in e nal s uc u e. This
concludes a chap e on w i ing. W i ing and p onuncia ion, ollowed by an o e iew
o he g amma , unde s ood as mo phosyn ax. All hese chap e s ha e headings in
he dialec (e.g. Kadde o F angn ‘Ka e on F anken, Wie me s schb ichd ‘How one
speaks). The main pa is made up o hema ic chap e s such as g ee ings and
a ewells, amily and kinship, numbe s and days o he week, wo k, a el, he body,
shopping, ea ing and d inking, wea he , e c. ou .
These hema ic chap e s a e also p o ided wi h headings in dialec (e.g. Sä us!
Un Adele ‘Se us! And Ade o g ee ing and a ewell, Di buggliche Bagaasch ‘Die
bucklige Bagage, o kinship). They each con ain sho dialogical
ques ion-answe sequences and small wo d lis s; Humo ous (in e ) cul u al
in o ma ion and e lec ions a e o en added. A he end o he bookle he e
a e wo wo d egis e s (once Dialec […] S anda d Ge man and once S anda d
Ge man […] Dialec ), Li e a u e-
hinweise ü die wei e üh ende Lek ü e und eine Au o in o ma ion (De , wo’s
gsch iem håd ‘De , wo es gesch ieben ha ’).
The ac ha he band has a numbe o inconsis encies, con adic ions and
e o s, which unde lines i s lay linguis ic p o inciali y, is only men ioned he e on
he sidelines (Geye 2021). As an illus a ion, he con usingly inconsis en spelling
o […]Wi […] as Wed (24), Wädd (50) and inally
Wa m (53) o se e.
S aipsniai A icles 267 and 267
Was man aus Dialek -Sp ach üh e n ü die Laiendialek ologie
und Laienlinguis ik le nen kann
Resul s and ou look
Th ough he p esen examina ion o he Kaude welsch dialec language guide in
gene al as well as he example o he dialec guide […]F änkisch[…],
Dialek Sp ach üh e ha e p o ed o be a ele an subjec o s udy o a lay
linguis ic examina ion on se e al le els: O e all, i appea s ha he selec ion o
bo h he dialec s and in pa icula he dialec names o he Kaude welsch
dialec language guide has clea pa allels wi h he in en o ies o a ious
pe cep ual dialec ological s udies on he men al s uc u ing o he Ge man
language communi y. Thus, he salien dialec s and dialec names a e add essed in
layman's e ms. In he case o exempla y analysis, he con en is a humo ous
s e eo yping o s e eo yping. Folklo iza ion o he dialec . In addi ion, he
spelling o he dialec as a non-no ma i e a ea is mainly due o p ac ices o
aliena ion o aliena ion. Cha ac e ized by exo icism. On he me a-language le el,
he dis ance om disciplina y expe ise is explici ly emphasized while
simul aneously p o iding e e yday expe ise. All his leads o a e y posi i e
assessmen o he dialec language guide as an en e ainmen medium om he
pe spec i e o he buye s: Recipien : wi hin, whe eby exis ing p o essional
linguis ic inadequacies o he dialec p esen a ion such as inconsis encies,
con adic ions and e o s in he p esen a ion all in o he backg ound.
In his a icle, only one dialec guide could be analyzed in some de ail. I would
undoub edly be desi able o b oaden he empi ical basis, o example, in he sense
o ex ending i o o he dialec s, o simila p oduc s o o he publishe s and
ce ainly o o he media. In addi ion o he audio ma e ial on dialec language
guides, he e a e, o example, lay ideos on YouTube o p o ide a mo e
comp ehensi e unde s anding o he in e ac ion o lay dialec ology and language
guides. Linguis ics and dialec language guides.
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Ko galima išmok i iš a miškų pasikalbėjimų
žinynų, p iski iamų nemokslinei dialek ologijai
i kalbo y ai
SANTRAUKA This a icle is analyzed in he same way as he ansla ions o he ansla ions o
he ansla ions o he ansla ions o he ansla ions o he ansla ions o he ansla ions
o he ansla ions o he ansla ions o he ansla ions o he ansla ions o he
ansla ions. T adi ional language s anda ds, o a mish language s anda ds, o a mish
language s anda ds, o a mish language s anda ds, o a mish language s anda ds, o a mish
language s anda ds, o a mish language s anda ds, o a mish language s anda ds, o a mish
language s anda ds. No se galimai is okiečių a mių ep esen a i es sup an a okiečių
bend inės kalbos no mas i isomis išgalėmis s engiasi kalbė i bend ine kalba su asmenimis,
ku iems am ik as dialek as y a s e imas, ačiau neaišku, a jų komunikacinė paski is, kaip i
ki ų pasikalbėjimų žodynėlių, y a okia pa i, . y. a jie paleng ina keliau ojų bend a imą su am
ik os kalbos (a mai) a s o ais. This is he i s ime ha his has happened. The mos
unquali ied specialis s in he ield o ag icul u al p ocessing, he mos unquali ied specialis s in
he ield o ag icul u al p ocessing, he mos unquali ied specialis s in he ield o ag icul u al
p ocessing, he mos unquali ied specialis s in he ield o ag icul u al p ocessing, he mos
unquali ied specialis s in he ield o ag icul u al p ocessing. I is also impo an o no e ha he
Commission's p oposal o a di ec i e on he p o ec ion o wo ke s om he isks ela ed o exposu e o ca cinogens a wo k is based on he p inciple o p opo ionali y. I is possible o unde s and he linguis ic pe spec i es o he audiences, o analyze he concep s and ideas o he audience, o unde s and he ideas o he audience.
I 's called he 2020 m. ugpjūčio 17 d.
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