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Remigration as a Linguistic Experience: Language-Related Aspects of “Homecoming”

The starting point of this paper is the assumption that homecoming as a form of remigration and transborder experience (cf. Čapo Žmegač et al. 2014) comprises specific linguistic aspects that are characteristic of this type of experience. The concept of homecoming is conceived of as a narrative or counter-narrative (cf. Bamberg/Andrews 2004) of an essentially language-related experience which can involve the following linguistic dimensions and aspects: mother tongue/first language vs. second language/language learning, monolinguality vs. multilinguality, linguistic coherence/security vs. linguistic diversity/insecurity (cf. Kresić/Rocco 2012), language maintenance vs. language attrition, as well as all the implications that these phenomena have for the experience and construction of identity. Different manifestations and expressions of the language-related dimension of homecoming are analysed on the basis of linguistic approaches in various types of texts: biographical accounts of homecoming in fictional works, linguistic biographies of mono-, bi- and multilingual migrants, narrative interviews in the corpus „Emigrantendeutsch in Israel“ [Emigrants’ German in Israel] (cfr. Betten 1995) and further autobiographic texts.

remigration, homecoming, language acquisition, language maintenance, identity, autobiographic texts, (counter)narratives

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