Explication of the Migrant Writers’ Hybrid Identity in German-speaking Discourse

Abstract

Linguistic and cultural studies have become the background for the analysis carried out in the article and give a clue to the idea of the national-cultural identity, which is reflected in the texts of German-speaking migrant discourse. The research relies on the work of German scientists who investigate the issue both in line with the traditional interpretation of migrant discourse as an intermediate cultural space of ambivalent nature, and within the framework of the new idea of intercultural Germanism. The research aims at establishing the rules according to which the text embodies the ways for the migrant authors to master the cultural space of German society and fix the forms of their identity. The authors used the general scientific method of comparative analysis and particular methods of linguo-cultural and contextual analysis. The integration of the individual consciousness of migrant writers into a new socio-cultural and linguistic space has got a systemic nature and is implemented in the language. The authors prove the urgency of the semantic opposition “native alien”, the components of which undergo an individually conditioned transformation and modification through acculturation. The language factor is proven to play the dominant role in the process of acculturation. The authors describe the forms of hybrid identity of German-speaking migrant writers, representing integration (L. Gorelik), cosmopolitan through transidentity (I. Trojanow) and integrated through a retrograde nature (E. S. Özdamar).