Ralf Knöbl
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ralf Knöbl is involved.
Articles
2013 ‘Standard usage’: Towards a realistic conception of spoken standard German Language Variation - European Perspectives IV: Selected papers from the Sixth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 6), Freiburg, June 2011, Auer, Peter, Javier Caro Reina and Göz Kaufmann (eds.), pp. 83–116 | Article
‘Standard language’ is a contested concept, ideologically, empirically and theoretically. This is particularly true for a language such as German, where the standardization of the spoken language was based on the written standard and was established with respect to a communicative situation, i.e.… read more
2011 Linguistic variation and linguistic virtuosity of young “Ghetto”-migrants in Mannheim, Germany Ethnic Styles of Speaking in European Metropolitan Areas, Kern, Friederike and Margret Selting (eds.), pp. 239–263 | Article
In this paper, we provide an insight into the life world and social experiences of young Turkish migrants who are categorised by German society as “social problem cases”. Based on natural conversational data, we describe the communicative repertoire of one migrant adolescent and that of his friends. read more