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
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 description will be soon available Publications Mehler, Alexander, Wahed Hemati, Pascal Welke, Maxim Konca, Tolga Uslu (2020).Multiple Texts…
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 and Identity among Arabs and Arameans in Germany
Description Ethnic, cultural, religious and linguistic factors combine in forming identities in the Middle East. Here, linguistic variation presents itself…
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Conference – Language, society & identity in diverse ethnolinguistic contexts
Language, society & identity in diverse
ethnolinguistic contexts…
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