Minority Studies: Language and Identity
Minority Studies: Language and Identity
The LOEWE focus “Minority Studies: Language and Identity” develops an interdisciplinary study of the problem of identity formation among minorities. For this purpose, we investigate three types of relations:
- the relationship between minorities “in their own country” and minorities “abroad”;
- the relationship between self-perception and the perception of minorities by others (both “in their own country” and “abroad”); and
- the reciprocal relationship between the identity-determining parameters of language, religion, culture and ethnos, in self-perception and foreign perception “in one’s own country” and “abroad”
Subprojects
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…
Language use, social identity and social distances
Description Social factors such as age, educational level and social status affect the speech communication, both in in-group and out-group…
Ethnic minorities and linguistic integration at primary schools in Germany
Description Abstract The subproject focuses on the linguistic integration processes of newly immigrated children from minority groups of the Middle…
Minorities between island formation and networking – life in the field of tension between “old” and “new” minorities
Description Migrants try to group and reorganize themselves in the diaspora, which can lead either to local “island construction” or…
Dynamics of Language, Religion and Identity in Arabic, Aramaic and Hebrew Texts from the Early Islamicate Near East (8th–11th centuries CE)
Description Ethnic, cultural, religious and linguistic factors among others combine in forming identities in the Near East, past and present.…
Berber speakers in the Rhine-Main region: Migration, minority status and masculinity
Description The project looks at communicative practices among younger male Berber-speakers of North African background. Upon arrival in Germany they…
News
Conference – Language, society & identity in diverse ethnolinguistic contexts, June 2023 in Frankfurt
Language, society & identity in diverse
ethnolinguistic contexts
News about LOEWE projects in the region of Hesse
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Nomination of Professor Gholami as Goethe Fellow
The Presidential Board of the Goethe University has decided to nominate Prof. Dr. Gholami as a Goethe Fellow at the Forschungskolleg from 01.04.2023. As a Goethe Fellow, Mrs Gholami will become a member of the research community at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften.
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