Namibian German Speaker Evaluations from an Open-Guise Study

Namibia is the geographic focus of this dataset from an open-guise study on social meaning and linguistic choice. It contains evaluations by Namibian German speakers of a speaker using Standard German and Namibian German variants. The dataset was authored by Antje Sauermann and last updated on 2026-05-29.

Use Cases

• Analyze correlations between linguistic variants and perceived speaker competence based on the described rating results.
• Study the association of lexical borrowings with solidarity ratings and ingroup membership as described in the results.
• Investigate how grammatical changes evoke intermediate social meanings related to origin and residence perceptions.
• Model language attitudes in a multilingual society based on the described experimental conditions (DE-stand, NAM-lex, NAM-gram).

Strengths

• Dataset is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0.
• The experimental methodology (open-guise study with three linguistic conditions) is clearly described.
• The 67.3 KB size indicates a focused, likely qualitative dataset.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The data is contained within a PDF, which may require extraction for computational analysis.

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by Antje Sauermann.

Collection Method

Data was gathered via an open-guise study where participants evaluated a speaker under three linguistic conditions.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-29 04:45:10; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Namibia, focusing on the German-speaking minority.