A minority within the minority
Supporting heritage language speaking students in German vocabulary at Romansh schools
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The canton of Grisons in Switzerland promotes the goal of Romansh-German bilingualism with unique school models in traditional Romansh-speaking areas. In those areas, the minority language Romansh is the school language in primary schools. At secondary school levels, however, school language is switched to the majority language German. Differences in contact with German outside of school settings lead to extremely heterogeneous class constellations during German lessons from the third...
Language debates in the making of Europe
Discursive genealogy, language ideologies and (post) national constructions at the Council of Europe
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This thesis traces a discursive genealogy of the language debates at the Council of Europe. Through a sociolinguistic and discursive approach to international institutions, different institutional texts produced between 1949 and 2008 are examined in their socio-historically situated conditions of production.
Marie-Anne Morand
- Morand, M.-A., Watter, C. & Schmid, S. (2023). Aspiration of fortis plosives in multiethnolectal Zurich German. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 3701-3705.
- Morand, M.-A., Bruno, M., Schwab, S. & Schmid, S. (2022). Syllable rate and speech rhythm in multiethnolectal Zurich German: A comparison of speaking styles. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Speech Prosody, 337-341.
- Morand, M.-A., Schwab, S. & Schmid, S. (2021). Standarddeutsche Interferenzen im Dialektwortschatz Schweizer Jugendlicher: Lexikalische und lautliche Entlehnungen. Bulletin VALS-ASLA 113, 137-154.
- Morand, M.-A., Schwab, S. & Schmid, S. (2021). The perception of multiethnolectal Zurich German: A continuum rather than clear-cut categories. Loquens 7(2), e072.
- Morand, M.-A., Bruno, M., Julmi, N., Schwab, S., Schmid, S. (2020). Speech rhythm in multiethnolectal Zurich German. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody, 566-570.
- Morand, M.-A., Bruno, M., Julmi, N., Schwab, S., Schmid, S. (2019). The voicing of lenis plosives in Zurich German: a sociophonetic marker of (multi-)ethnolectal speech. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1600-1604.
- Vorwerg, C., Suntharam, S., Morand, M.-A. (2019). Language control and lexical access in diglossic speech production: Evidence from variety switching in speakers of Swiss German. Journal of Memory and Language 107, 40-53.
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When commencing the compulsory education curriculum, pupils are five years old and are assumed to have mastered the oral foundations of the language of instruction. In some districts however, up to 80% of pupils entering 1H speak a different language at home, and between 60 and 70% do not speak or understand French at all. The processes whereby so-called “allophone” students, even if many of them were born in Switzerland, acquire phonological representations of French (i.e.
Demet Arpacik
2023. (book, accepted, forthcoming). Arpacik, D. The Medium of Liberation: Kurdish Language and Education Activism in Turkey. “Contributions to the Sociology of Language” book series by De Gruyter Mouton (doctoral dissertation).
2022. (accepted, forthcoming). Arpacık, D. & Nimer, M. Education and language policies towards Syrian Refugees in the post-imperial Turkish State: Incorporating former imperial subjects into the Neo-Ottomanist political regime. Comparative Education Review.
2019. Arpacık. D., Feeling solidarity in an estranged city: Ethnography in the post-war Diyarbakır under surveillance. In B. Baser, M. Toivanen, B. Zorlu, Y. Duman (Eds.), Methodological approaches in Kurdish studies: Theoretical and practical insights from the field (pp. 101-121). Lanham: Lexington Books.
2018. Arpacik, D., “Redefining Kurdishness in the new sociopolitical space of the U.S. diaspora: Experiences of Kurdish students and their parents in Nashville schools”. Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies, 6 (2), 44-56.
2016. Arpacık. D., Archanjo, R. Kurdish language class in New York: A platform for social, political and (inter)personal engagement. Bellaterra Journal of Teaching and Learning Language & Literature, 9 (2), 14-31.
2015. Arpacık, D., Language education of linguistically minoritized students: First steps for teachers In the Special Issue on Translanguaging. Online Journal of Theory, Research, and Action in Urban Education, Graduate Center, CUNY
Documenting Francophonie without borders
The Power of words and numbers
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The 19th century saw a proliferation of scientific documentary works contributing to the production of knowledge about languages and their speakers around the world. These included linguistic corpora, ethnographic reports, maps and language statistics comprising a set of research data which was subsequently used by Western governments to define geopolitical borders, to legitimize the construction of nations and to determine those language practices that would come to be recognised as...