TY - JOUR AU - Palliwoda, Nicole AU - Sauer, Verena AU - Sauermilch, Stephanie PY - 2021/05/31 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Linguistic patterns and frames in the context of the concept “wall in minds” JF - Altre Modernità JA - AMonline VL - IS - 25 SE - Saggi Ensayos Essais Essays DO - 10.13130/2035-7680/15546 UR - https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/15546 SP - 96-120 AB - <p>For more than 30 years, the inner-German border as a physical border<br>between the GDR and FRG no longer existed. From a linguistic perspective, unification<br>can be assumed. The linguistic differences between the former East and West Germans<br>are smaller than those between the different German dialect speakers. However,<br>categories such as Ossi, East German or Wessi, West German can still be found today,<br>although the terms for the inhabitants of the GDR (Ossi, Ostdeutsch, Ostler etc.) are<br>more productive. The physical inner-German border seems to turn into a wall in<br>people's minds. This article takes up the current discourse and asks about the<br>underlying patterns and frames that constitute this mental border or enable its<br>reconstruction. Autobiographical narrative interviews with people of two age groups<br>who grew up or were socialised at the former inner-German border serve as a basis.</p> ER -