Ghetto Ideologies, Youth Identities and Stylized Turkish German: Turkish Youths in Berlin-kreuzberg (Spektrum: Berliner Reihe Zu Gesellschaft, ... and Politics in Developing Countries, 91) - Tapa blanda

This book explores the language ideologies and linguistic practices of a group of working class German Turkish males during the late 1990s. It shows with ethnographic detail that Germany's infamous "kanak sprak" is actually only one of several codes available to this group of immigrant youths, and is used consciously and intentionally. Based on eight months of fieldwork this study details how in the creation of this new code is created as a metalinguistic symbol of identity, and how it is used to index collective group identity. (Series: Spektrum. Berliner Reihe zu Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Politik in Entwicklungsl���¤ndern/Berlin Series on Society, Economy and Politics in Developing Countries - Vol. 91)

H. Julia Eksner holds a Magistra Artium in Anthropology and African Studies from the Free University of Berlin, and is pursuing a PhD in the Learning Sciences at Northwestern University. Her current research is concerned with the socio-cultural context of learning and development in the lives of immigrant youths in the U.S. and Europe.