Regionale Identitäten im mehrsprachigen Bayern

Abstract

This article sketches ideologies of dialectal multilingualism in Bavaria and their impact on the construction of regional identities. In Bavaria, an “ethnolinguisticist” ideology differentiates between “tribes”, each with a specific dialectal repertoire as the “real”, authentic version. A discourse analysis of popular media and selective ethnographic interviews exemplifies these stylisations. The article closes with a discussion of the discrepancies between actual multilingualism and “ethnolinguisticist” ideology.