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News & Papers
Public event in March 2023: Familiensprachenstark! Get some Impressions
New book: Speaking Subjects in Multilingualism Research: Biographical and Speaker-centred Approaches edited with Mi-Cha Flubacher
Meetings & Conferences
Image from the Inaugural lecture on social deixis: academic party in June 2023!
Podcast of the Journal of Sociolinguistics: Birgül Yilmaz meets Judith Purkarthofer and Mi-Cha Flubacher: A conversation about biographical approaches
Watch selected talks and conference presentations here - most recent: In/Exclusively addressing the other in disseminating linguistic results (RUEG, Juli 2022)
Media & Language Policy
For many people, community media represent a way of combining participation in a society with learning relevant skills, including languages. But media are also important environments for the representation of languages, including language policy regulations.
We are currently piloting a project on Anti-racist strategies in Community Media in connection with the Racism Monitoring activities of the DEZIM (in German) / German Institute for Integration and Migration Research.
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Family Language Policy
New research network in the making: Family language policy
www.ruegram.de is online: resources for parents, educators and teachers! Come and explore!
How and why are which languages passed on to children? And what do the children and grandchildren say? Publication, resources and links to a growing field of research:
Prof. Dr. Judith Purkarthofer
Sociolinguistics, multilingualism research, biography research, ethnography, creative methods, educational institutions, community media
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Linguistic Integration?
Language unites and separates - often at the same time. Research deals with linguistic expressions of inclusions and exclusions (e.g. conversation research or discourse analysis), as well as with their social and political implications (e.g. biography research, ethnography, language policy, etc.). On the subject:
Language Organization
In multilingual child care centers and schools, but also in radio stations, associations and companies, the organization of different languages plays an important role: which languages are represented where? What is legally regulated, what is explicitly specified and what results from its use? More on
Language Rights
Language rights secure people's participation in public life and protect against discrimination, they ensure the free choice of language in the family and ensure that children and adults are supported in learning new languages. Read more on