The Many Languages of Berlin

Public Event on November 14, at 8:00 p.m. in the Heinrich Böll Library No 308/2019 from Oct 21, 2019 Linguistic diversity and language variation in Berlin are the focus of a public event on November 14, at 8:00 p.m. at the Heinrich Böll Library located in Berlin's Pankow district. The event will bring together experts from linguistics, cultural studies, and social anthropology for a discussion based on their presentations of different language practices and contexts in Berlin milieus and social domains. The experts' work on the topic has been collected in a volume entitled The Sociolinguistic Economy of Berlin . The volume's editors, Britta Schneider (Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder), Theresa Heyd (Universität Greifswald), and Ferdinand von Mengden (Freie Universität Berlin), are organizing the event. It will be held in German, and admission is free of charge. The event will focus in particular on languages often used in Berlin, like English and Spanish, as well as less visible languages, such as Kurdish or Vietnamese. The discussion will also address German language variations, such as the Berlin dialect and the urban dialect "Kiezdeutsch" (neighborhood German).