Die Wochenmarktsprache in der Türkei und in Deutschland


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Balcı T.

SELCUK UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF FACULTY OF LETTERS, vol.43, no.43, pp.243-256, 2020 (ESCI) identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 43 Issue: 43
  • Publication Date: 2020
  • Doi Number: 10.21497/sefad.756088
  • Journal Name: SELCUK UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF FACULTY OF LETTERS
  • Journal Indexes: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), MLA - Modern Language Association Database, Directory of Open Access Journals, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Page Numbers: pp.243-256
  • Keywords: Multilingualism, jargon, code switching, pidginization, bazaar vendors' language
  • Çukurova University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Globalization brought many commercial, political and social relationships which cause multiculturalism and multilingualism. Turkey and Germany are among such countries embodying ethnic and cultural diversities since the significant portion of the population in Turkey and Germany is multilingual and they hold migration background. The focus of the present study is bazaar vendors' language, the jargon which can be heard at the neighbourhood/local marketplaces. The data was collected from the bazaars in Adana and Berlin, and it exemplifies instances of interferences, interjections, repeats, religious phrases, place-names, songs, honoratives, and even empty-phrases. Although the term "bazaar language" does not exist in German, this study also presents a suggestion for that.