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The next meeting in the seminar series of the Center for Research and Practice in Cultural Continuity

“Decolonizing approaches to studying history and linguistic-cultural heritage. Methods, tools, results and challenges”

will take place on

May 17, 2023

at 16:45 CET

Bringing the subject back into multilingualism research: exploring the linguistic repertoire and lived experience of minority language speakers and learners

In the study of minority languages, there is a growing interest in current and past processes of minoritization, that is, in power mechanisms by which speakers are placed in a subordinate status, and in how stigmatization is experienced. With the concept of the communicative repertoire, linguistic practices beyond the majority/minority dichotomy are explored. Thus, the perspective of experiencing subjects that are socially positioned and situationally position themselves increasingly receives attention. In my presentation I will draw on a long term study carried out in a bilingual Slovene-German school in Carinthia (Austria).
Brigitta Busch is an applied linguist. She works and teaches at Vienna University and is also affiliated to Stellenbosch University (South Africa). In 2012 she was granted a Berta-Karlik research professorship for excellent female scientists by the University of Vienna. She has also been working for many years as an expert for the Council of Europe’s Confidence-Building Measures Programme and was a member of the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities.

ZOOM LINK: https://zoom.us/j/98037235262