{"pk":52938,"title":"German in Transit","subtitle":null,"abstract":"<p>Based on the author’s personal experience with physical migration across national boundaries, this paper explores the concept of migration as a metaphor for the crossing of other  boundaries in the learning and using of German and other languages: linguistic, cultural, epistemic, disciplinary, literary, and communicative. Key concepts in this migration are: translanguaging, transknowledging, symbolic competence, and literariness.  Developing a migrant mindset involves reinstating historicity and subjectivity to the foreign language educational enterprise. </p>","language":"eng","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC-ND 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"exile"},{"word":"translation"},{"word":"WWII"},{"word":"language politics"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/72n41932","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Claire","middle_name":"J.","last_name":"Kramsch","name_suffix":"","institution":"UC Berkeley","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2025-09-23T17:40:35.774000Z","date_accepted":"2026-02-26T05:33:24.089536Z","date_published":"2026-05-01T20:51:00Z","render_galley":{"label":"Kramsch Article","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/transit/article/52938/galley/49586/download/"},"galleys":[{"label":"Kramsch Article","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/transit/article/52938/galley/49586/download/"}]}