Minority Studies: Language and Identity
Minority Studies: Language and Identity
01.01.2020 – 12.31.2024
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
Identity of Ahl-e Haqq community in Češin
Identity of Ahl-e Haqq community in Češin.the interplay of language and ethnicity Project Team: Prof. Dr. Saloumeh GholamiInstitute of Empirical…
Kurds in Germany – between self-identification and external ascription
Prof. Dr. Jost Gippert Prof. Dr. Saloumeh Gholami Description The specific meaning of the term “Kurdish” depends on the group…
Liturgical Language and Identity: Hebrew Poetry in the Middle Ages
Description As a regularly repeated ritual, the liturgy consolidates identity as a minority without influencing interactions with the majority in…
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…
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…
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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