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Original Articles

The Decline of German Dialects

Pages 130-153 | Published online: 04 Dec 2015

Informants Cited

  • B Hermann Bausinger, Ludwig-Uhland-Institut für Volkskunde, Tübingen. Interview 30 April 1955.
  • E Ulrich Engel, Stuttgart, student of Hugo Moser, Ph.D. Tübingen 1955, dissertation (typescript) Mundart und Umgangssprache in Württemberg; Beiträge zur Sprachsoziologie der Gegenwart. Interview Tübingen 30 April 1955.
  • K1 Alfred Karasek-Langer, folklorist, Berchtesgaden. Interview 12–13 May 1955.
  • K2 id., interview 11 July 1955.
  • Kr Professor Eberhard Kranzmayer, Vienna, dialectologist. Native of Klagenfurt, Carinthia. Speaks Slovenian; has recorded the speech of the last Slovenian speakers around Klagenfurt. Interview 17 July 1955.
  • L Kurt Langer, expellee from the east Sudeten area, Czechoslovakian Silesia. Interview in Ennepetal, Ruhr district, 15 August 1955.
  • M W. Middelmann, Ministerialdirigent, Bundesministerium für Vertriebene, Bonn. Interview 14 April 1955.
  • S Schreiber, buyer at Stuttgart's leading textile firm (2000 employees and workers), where the occupational speech is still “purely Swabian.” Native Alsatian, but for 24 years at present place of employment. Speaks Swabian at work with ease; spoke cultured standard German with me. Interview 27 April 1955.
  • St Otto Steiner, Brunswick, expellee from Silesia; mathematician and physicist with training in statistics; collaborator of K. Val. Müller, sociologist. Interview 19 May 1955.

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