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Article: Language, Literature and the Negotiation of Identity: Foreign Worker German in the Federal Republic of Germany.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2000
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Language, Literature and the Negotiation of Identity: Foreign Worker German in the Federal Republic of Germany. By BARBARA FENNELL. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press. 1997. xiii + 167 pp. 27.50 [pounds sterling].
The question of who is a German and what is (or who owns) the German language is one of the central issues in German sociolinguistics. The relationship between language, nation (or ethnic group), and state in the German-speaking countries is highly complex, more so perhaps than in any other major European speech area, and attempts to find a resolution have bedevilled German and European politics for two centuries. As sociologists and ...