Identität und Identifizierung - Die sprachliche Herstellung von Identität

von Sabine Braun

INHALT:

Abstract

1. Einleitung 2

2. Identität und Identifizierung: Die sprachliche Herstellung von Identität
2.1 Diskussionsgrundlage
2.1.1 Definition des Begriffs ′identifizieren′
2.1.2 Methodische Abgrenzung gegenüber anderen Soziolinguisten
2.1.3 Positivismus als zugrunde liegende Weltsicht
2.1.4 Begriffe zur Kategorienbildung
2.1.5 Das Prinzip der ′predictability′
2.1.6 Unmöglichkeit der Definition des Begriffs ′Ethnie′
2.1.7 Unmöglichkeit der Definition des Begriffs ′Rasse′
2.1.8 Die Beziehung zwischen ′Sprache′ und ′Ethnizität′

3. Schlussgedanke 10

ABSTRACT

This is the first part of a two-pieced written form paper dealing with the following topic: ′Identity and identification: the influence of language to the establishment of identity′.
What function does language fulfill in regard to the establishment of our self-identity as well as to the identity of groups? How do categories like ′community′, ′ethnic group′, ′language′ or ′race′ come into being? Which patterns are followed in order to create such categories?
These questions are tried to be answered in this written form paper. It is based on extracts from the text ′Acts of identity - Creole based approaches to language and ethnicity′, written by Robert B. LePage and Andrée Tabouret-Keller in 1985.
This first part contains a description of the theoretic philosophical basis on which LePage and Tabouret-Keller grounded the empirical analysis they realized within several Caribbean communities in Belize.
A second part, giving main attention to the realization and the acquired results of the empirical analysis, is going to come up next.

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