Germanization
Germanization ( verb : to Germanize ) describes the inclusion of a foreign object in the culture of the German- speaking area .
Linguistic aspect
With German Renaissance humanism , Germanization initially meant the general German translation of texts from the classical languages. The term became popular in the 16th century through the book title of Luther's translation of the Bible into German ( Biblia: Dat ys De gantze Hillige Schrifft / Vordüdeschet dorch D. Mart. Luth. ).
In the 17th century, Philipp von Zesen invented numerous German translations that are still in use today. Joachim Heinrich Campe developed in the 18./19. Century also a number of successful proposals for German translation . In the 20th century, Martin Buber was looking for his Bible translation project Die Schrift. Germanized. a counterpoint to the general translation practice, in that by adhering to the internal linguistic structures of Hebrew as a foreign language, he recreated the special and respected sacred scriptures in a German version of its own character.
Linguistically is meant by Verde funnels the deliberate replacement of foreign words by content corresponding German terms or term combinations or calques in the German vernacular. This takes place in the field of tension between linguistic purism and linguistic foreign infiltration . With regard to the current German language development endeavor Sprachpflege clubs around the Germanization of Anglicisms . The similar term Germanization , on the other hand, describes the alignment of the spelling of foreign words to the German sound-letter assignment .
Socio-cultural aspect
The term is also used in the socio-cultural field when it comes to the submission ( Germanization ) of foreign areas and populations to German culture, the forced assimilation .
literature
- Jürgen Schiewe : Joachim Heinrich Campes German translation program. In: German language. Vol. 16, No. 1, 1988, ISSN 0340-9341 , pp. 17-33.
- Wolf Schneider : Speak German! - Why German is sometimes better. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-498-06393-1 .
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- ^ Magdeburg: Michael Lotter, 1554. from the Lower Saxony State Library Hanover; Signature CIM 8/9106
- ↑ http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/wk1/alltag/verdeutschung/index.html
