A Sociolinguistic Research on Language Attitudes of German Turks

Turkish Society lived for almost more than one century in Germany and they became permanent residents rather than became visitors. Throughout this long period, they faced with significant changes in terms of social, economic and cultural aspects. Besides these changes due to dominant cultural environment they lived, they also adopted different language attitudes. This language attitudes differ depend on the generations while they also formed depend on different social classes. This research investigated the language attitudes of German Turks, which raised due to their migration period. From this perspective, German Turks′ language attitudes, their approaches to the mother tongue, tendency to use Turkish language, language shifting and maintenance, language preferences, approaches to the German language, ability of using Turkish literature, approaches of young generation to the Turkish literature, interest in Turkish publications, approaches regarding language integration were investigated. These aspects are considered based on the differences with respect to the state where people live, gender, generation, places where they were born, education levels, citizenship, marital status, monthly revenues, duration of living in Germany, with whom they live together, citizenship of couples and children in families and languages spoken by participants and his/her partners