Bestes Hochdeutsch und wenn ja, wo? (François Conrad – Science Slam)

The Spitz and Slime thing is still on the sidelines, but it's about something else, it's about the High German in Hannover. I have been in Hannover for a few years and I am very happy there and I feel the same when I went. there as probably you too, you know Actually almost nothing about Hannover, you know approximately where it is, somehow in the north of Germany, but then it's almost open, but then I heard the next song. I feel regulate. Here in Hannover I have no sense of humor and no accent, there is something I have.

I also heard that in my childhood it was said that German is spoken especially good in Hannover. I didn't Google it immediately and found more examples. The image announces it. local edition with we can't do everything except high German Herrenhäuser a beer from Hannover it's us city yo san yo or e110 the security portal I'm on it every day I can recommend a description of the perpetrator 30-35 years old speaks pure standard German maybe be from the surroundings of Hannover. I don't think they have discovered the perpetrator yet, well what I prefer to do than Google is of course read research papers and I have found that there is almost nothing at all. on this topic and as a first step, my colleagues and I created a survey throughout Germany.

We surveyed 2,004 people, which means the results are representative of the entire German population, and we asked above all where the best standard German is spoken. In what region and in what city? 10% of Germans think the same somewhere in North Rhine-Westphalia. Don't rejoice too soon. I just saw what the situation is like in Cologne. For you I can't judge that, you have to tell me that there was another person who said something exciting said NRW except Cologne, so NRW ten percent the second state with the most votes was Lower Saxony with 23 percent a quarter German in somewhere Lower Saxony said that it is already a very urban number, if you look more closely at the cities, Berlin, the capital, at least two percent, then Hamburg follows with four percent and you can already guess what comes.

Hanover, 39 percent, 25 percent of all Germans, that was the opinion when I asked them where we do it. They say that the best standard German is spoken in Hannover and then the following thing happened to me, it's none of my business because of Hannover. I think it's okay, everything is in standard German, everything is fine. I started talking to an older man and he asked me what are you doing? An excellent standard German, I would say that the best standard German is spoken in the southern part of the city, which was formerly the civil servants' quarter. time, I don't know if it's still like that now.

I know how you felt, but I was wondering: yes, very loud for that and the sharpness is also audible there, so to me there is a contradiction between something. is said about Hanover and what Hanover speaks, how they express it, how they speak and that is why the project is the language of the city The origins of Hanover we look at that is why we still promise about the language in Hannover we think in advance for me we are linguists linguists something Thus the surgeons and surgeons of the humanities the humanities and language do we think we do everything we create with spirit we think we speak we communicate and we as surgeons look at ourselves very closely, we dissect the language itself, we look at how words are structured, we are replaced by them and also how they sound, what the phonetic side of the language is like and that's exactly what we do in the project because standard German is mainly involved in the pronunciation when I'm talking about you, I'm talking about We Three.

I formed a team. I thought it was important that when you do research you are as objective as possible. That means it would be pretty good if you were as objective as possible. the topic In the case of High German jokes, I myself am a native of Luxembourg and learned German as a foreign language, although you may not hear it that way anymore. Check Hannah is from Duisburg, yes, leave it at that. That, it was definitely achieved, but then I thought okay, to be completely sure, I actually need a person who doesn't speak any standard German and if I can find someone from the green heart of Germany, Stefan is from.

Thuringia. Jokes aside, it's a great team. What exactly have we done? 100 people from Hannover asked us: It was important to us that they were very diverse, that's why we divided them into different age groups, gender and many other criteria. The only requirement was that you grew up in the city of Hannover, meaning that you had completed your entire school career there and experienced it again for as many years as possible. This person has invited to our language lab, it sounds elegant. It's really just a room with a screen and a recording device and ultimately they just have to talk to us.

Of course, you don't have to talk about what it is, but what we told you, please speak standard German with us and with him. The vast majority answered the following: I always do it or I can't do anything else. You can see a little bit which direction the journey is going. We examine two areas in particular. One is objective language. mouth, how Hanoverians actually speak and we were looking to get it in our mouths and it was always about choosing words that had different pronunciation options, but a High German and once a regional pronunciation, especially North German, some examples of this . vehicle High German Train North German Regional the train itself in Cologne too, which is also West German Pronunciation, of course, there is but cutting in certain areas another example of this beautiful animal V in North Germany the V now such time of Anne who said arrow I arrow you are from northern Germany on the right and you also know another example here in Cologne: the garden in High German.

Northern Germany is sometimes pronounced garden, so we looked at a lot of words and listened to the shelf more in High German. gave a value per person between 0, meaning everything is in High German, or 100% meaning everything is pronounced in regional pronunciation. Then everything was extrapolated to our important groups and the most important group is age, here the result on the left. the older generation, the fairly young generation, we see that in the older generation we have relatively high values ​​in terms of regional pronunciation, the younger the person becomes, the lower these regional pronunciations become, that is, the young nature becomes increasingly returns to High German. but here we also have values ​​that are not at 0% for certain words, certain variables, which means that High German is pure, even in Hannover, not that one zone is the tongue in the mouth, the second zone is the The language in the head under subjective data is more difficult to measure.

We have to look inside people's brains and that's what we do. It's about knowing what people think about language, what you know about language, what you know about the myth of language. If you are linguistically socialized and for this we conduct interviews, for example, long interviews, linguistic geography interviews and what can come of them? It is not surprising that many people in Hannover also believe in the myth that we speak the best standard German. Regardless of what I really talk about, what I did was a very exciting test in Hesse. We played recordings from seven cities and asked in each case where the person came from, a little game like that and we wanted to know.

You even listen to a person from Hanover, can you recognize her when she speaks? And it turned out that only a third of the people from Hanover recognized the person from Hanover, which is much more common. It happened that these four cities Bielefeld Hannover Braunschweig Göttingen were confused. People didn't know that exactly these four speakers from the four cities they come from exactly mean to us that these languages ​​are probably very similar to these cities, so we'll look for them, I'm sure. Now you wonder, rightly, what is true or not? The question is not so easy to answer when it comes to the language in the mouth.

The mouth does not speak pure High German either. does not exist, we are all Our pronunciation is influenced by the region. You probably know that, especially here in this room. Furthermore, there is nothing good or bad. We speak German differently and that's good. standard German, we need a comparison, the best, a relational term and for that we have students who offered their final works on a small scale to 32 people each from their hometown, who compared different cities according to a similar principle in the case of the language in the mouth as in Gütersloh Minden and so on and the results in pronunciation were almost exactly the same as in Hannover, that is, Hannover does not really have a special position in the mouth, but the mouth says no, the head says yes, as We have seen.

In the online survey throughout Germany and also in Hannover itself, people believe this myth. They believe that Hannover actually speaks standard German better and what myths gave rise to this Times that, until now, once you have them in your head, you can. take them out very quickly and for that you need

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to counter this myth with facts. If you try, sometimes really interesting things come to light, for example, I received the following letter to the editor quoting "good morning, Mr. Konrad." I'm worried that we Hanoverians are starting to get a little angry at the constant criticism.

I have not changed anything in the letter regarding our state capital and now you question the quality of our language. What is the opposite of clean or purely dirty? impure I think that with this project they want to show that words. I would really like to look into this person's brain, but she just wasn't very cooperative with my questions, but that also shows that there are still people in this city. There is so much to do. , we still have a lot of work ahead of us, thank you very much. Among other things, he is interviewing linguistic myths, it happens.