Fränkisch und die Franken im Regionalen Enregisterment

Abstract

This article examines the enregisterment of Franconian (speech) as a language of a specific social (regional) group with specific social features. A stylized register of an ideologically stereotyped group of speakers is created based on traditional dialects. The article analyzes popular dialect guides (and further sources) to detect linguistic and social features that are publicly claimed to be authentic and/or exclusively Franconian. The analysis reveals ideologies of regionalistic unification as well as separation from Old Bavaria and speakers of Bavarian.