Abstracts Archive

In this paper, we first address the question of how language ideology research relates to similar research fields dealing with attitudes towards language (for example, attitude research, language awareness, folk linguistics). Then we suggest that not only language ideologies of non-linguists should ...

In my talk I am going to analyse changing language ideologies in German linguistics using the example of the debate on women's language in the linguistic journal Linguistische Berichte in 1978 and 1979. My argument is that research insight on language and gender were marginalised in German linguisti...

Public media reports attracted notice to racism and discrimination in the police force, especially in recent years. Headlines such as „Hinweise aus den eigenen Reihen: Polizisten melden Rassismusverdacht" (27.07.2021) or „Bund und Ländern liegen laut ‚Spiegel' etwa 400 Fälle von möglic...

Playback interviews were pioneered as a method in interactional sociolinguistics to elicit language users' retrospective commentary on linguistic practices (Gumperz 1982; Tannen 2005 [1984]). In the interview session, audio or video recordings of interactions are played back to the participants to a...

In the German-language discourse on gender fair language (called „gendering/Gendern" in the German speaking world), a decided pro and con prevails to a large extent, and both sides substantiate their stances also scientifically (Kotthoff 2020). The lecture will address the question of whe...

Despite many years of efforts to promote multilingualism in schools, it can be said that this has not been successful. The main reason for this is the monolingual habitus, which is still prevalent in German schools (Dirim, 2017; Bredthauer, 2018; Mast & Sachse, 2021). The school is the...