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
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…
The Syriac script and the vernacular literature of Syriac Christians in their identity discourse
Description The project is dedicated to the formal and textual aspects of the Aramaic identity discourse and consists of two…
The International Human Rights Regime and the Protection of Minorities in Syria
Description The subproject C2.1 will investigate whether and how the international human rights regime has been able to contribute to…
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…
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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