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This study is a sociolinguistic analysis of High German on the basis of an empirical survey. 2,218 speakers of High German from various parts of Germany were asked to complete a questionnaire. The evaluation showed how many of these speakers also spoke dialect, what social features they displayed, and what attitudes they had to dialect and standard German. The results indicate that in the history of High German the same factors have been operative as those that are still significant for the social structures of the language community in which it is spoken.

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Anette Huesmann, Jahrgang 1961, ist Journalistin und Dozentin für Kreatives Schreiben. Sie lebt seit mehr als einem Vierteljahrhundert in der Rhein-Neckar-Region und schreibt spannend und kenntnisreich über Mannheim und die Metropolregion.