Word atlas of continental Germanic winemaker terminology

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The word atlas of continental Germanic winegrowing terminology (WKW) is an interdisciplinary and international language and subject atlas of the traditional European winegrowing language German ( wine language ). It documents the traditional winegrowing culture of German-speaking areas, which is in upheaval due to social, technical and political change .

In the follow-up project, the dictionary of German winegrowers' language , the collected materials are processed lexicographically.

The atlas was developed from 1979 onwards at the Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz and financed by the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz .

method

The atlas is based on a questionnaire of around 400 questions on the terminology and material culture of traditional, rural wine-growing work. The questionnaire covers essential areas from the botany of the vine to the finished wine .

Language survey

From 1981 to 1986, almost 1,000 winemakers in 14 European countries and more than 420 locations were interviewed and their statements recorded on tape . The survey area falls on the (partly former) German-speaking areas of Europe in East and West Germany , France , Luxembourg , Switzerland , Liechtenstein , Italy , South Tyrol , Czechoslovakia , Austria , Poland , Yugoslavia , the Soviet Union , Hungary and Romania . The linguistic and expert surveys for the Atlas stretched from the Ahr , Moselle and Saar to the Valais Alps , from Lake Neuchâtel (Switzerland) via Burgenland to the Banat (Hungary) and from the Carpathian Arch (Romania) to the Crimea to Transcaucasia ( Tbilisi ). The northernmost wine-growing region , formerly German, was located near Grünberg in Silesia , where a well-known sour wine grew.

The survey method practiced was basically direct (recording on tape with simultaneous phonetic transcription (writing) of the answers) and was carried out by the explorers according to different transcription systems. As a rule, the place of exploration was identical to the place of work and residence of the informant. The scope of the questionnaire was dimensioned so that a survey could be carried out in one day.

This ideal recording constellation was also present during the direct recordings in the GDR , Hungary and Romania. However, it was not possible for the recordings which concerned the locations in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. Here the informants had to be visited and questioned at their current place of residence in the west.

The recordings took place in three phases:

  • Primary recordings: bimedial recordings recorded on site by several explorers
  • Secondary recordings: Supplementary material and additional recordings on the fixed local network
  • Tertiary recordings : materials from the pretest phase ; these were not entered in the thematic maps of the WKW, but appear in the legend of the maps.

Question book

The final questionnaire is divided into two main parts.

  • Part I: Questions about the survey location, questions about the source of information, information about the recording and documentation
  • Part II: 398 questions about viticulture, which are divided into eight sections:

publication

Three volumes were published between 1990 and 1996: the introductory volume, the map volume, and the commentary volume.

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