Dr. Zorana Sokolovska

Title

Languages in vocational training in Switzerland: discipline, tools and historical discourses

Duration

09.2020 - 08.2025

As the question of the teaching-learning of French in vocational schools in Switzerland is under debate once again, it is essential to study and understand the place and role of French as a school discipline, a working tool and a subject...

Title

A critical historiographic analysis of discourses of language “rise” and “decline”: emergence, circulation and impact in (inter)national spaces

Duration

12.2023 - 12.2024

The goal of this research project is to examine language ideological debates throughout the period 1970-1990 in two international organisations, the Council of Europe and the European Union, from a critical sociolinguistic perspective. Their...

Title

Languages and the (inter)national imaginary: Esperanto in Switzerland

Duration

01.2018 - 12.2019

The aim of this research project is to highlight the emergence and development of the Esperantist discourse and movement in Switzerland, in connection with its characteristic sociopolitical and discursive conditions: neutrality and multilingualism....

Title

Language debates in the making of Europe

Duration

10.2012 - 10.2016

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...

Title

Tales from the field

Duration

01.2020 - 12.2024

The project offers a space for methodological reflections about critical ethnographic sociolinguistic research based on researchers’ experiences. On a dedicated website, the team makes available a collection of personal tales about specific...