Category Subprojects

A2 Networks

Minority languages in multimodal networks

Description The sub-project investigates the hypothesis that the self-perception or perception of others by minorities is positionally determined by role assignments in social networks and can be reconstructed on the basis of (the networking of) linguistic manifestations. Based on this…

Prof. Dr. Alexander Mehler
11. November 2020

A1 Minority Rights

International law as an instrument for the social integration of “new minorities” while preserving their independent identity.

Description Current international law does not adequately cover the special situation of immigrants who have been resident for a long time, so-called ‘new minorities’. The sub-project will examine whether and, if so, how the provisions of the most important treaty…

Prof. Dr. Dr. Hofmann
11. November 2020

Category Subprojects

Minority languages in multimodal networks

International law as an instrument for the social integration of “new minorities” while preserving their independent identity.

Ethnic minorities and linguistic integration at primary schools in Germany

Minorities between island formation and networking – life in the field of tension between “old” and “new” minorities

Dynamics of Language, Religion and Identity in Arabic, Aramaic and Hebrew Texts from the Early Islamicate Near East (8th–11th centuries CE)

Berber speakers in the Rhine-Main region: Migration, minority status and masculinity

The Syriac script and the vernacular literature of Syriac Christians in their identity discourse