Brigitta Busch is an applied linguist. She works and teaches at Vienna University and is also affiliated to Stellenbosch University (South Africa). In 2012 she was granted a Berta-Karlik research professorship for excellent female scientists by the University of Vienna. She has also been working for many years as an expert for the Council of Europe’s Confidence-Building Measures Programme and was a member of the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. Her main interests focus on: sociolinguistics, multilingualism, biographic approaches in linguistics (http://www.heteroglossia.net) Address: Vienna, Wien, Austria
Jeder Mensch ist mehrsprachig. Wir alle pendeln täglich zwischen verschiedenen Sprechweisen (Dial... more Jeder Mensch ist mehrsprachig. Wir alle pendeln täglich zwischen verschiedenen Sprechweisen (Dialekt, geschriebene Sprache, Umgangssprache, Fachsprache…) und begegnen (in der Straßenbahn, in der Schule, in Medien, auf Reisen ...) einer Vielfalt von Sprachen. Wer erforschen will, wie wir Sprachen erleben, Sprachen erwerben und mit Sprachen umgehen, findet in diesem Band aktuelle soziolinguistische Zugänge zur Mehrsprachigkeit aus Subjekt-, Diskurs und Raumperspektive. Vorgestellt werden auch Methoden der Mehrsprachigkeitsforschung wie sprachbiografisches Arbeiten oder die Exploration lokaler Sprachregime. Neben Studierenden der Linguistik erhalten auch Personen in Ausbildung zu Lehr- und Sozialberufen wertvolle Hilfestellungen für ihre zukünftige Arbeit in einer multilingualen Gesellschaft.
This article considers political measures targeted at individual languages (e.g., the prohibition... more This article considers political measures targeted at individual languages (e.g., the prohibition to use certain terms) as well as policies concerning the relations between different languages. The first part examines different approaches to language policies, language politics, and language planning. Although nation states are still the central players in the field, present trends show that under the influence of the globalized economy, sub-state and supra-state bodies are gaining influence. The second part of the article focuses on language policies in Europe and contextualizes policies on national/official languages and on minority languages with orientations present in the European Union.
Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, Jun 1, 2010
Introduction M.Krzy?anowski, A.Triandafyllidou & R.Wodak PART I: EUROPE AND THE MEDIA AT TIME... more Introduction M.Krzy?anowski, A.Triandafyllidou & R.Wodak PART I: EUROPE AND THE MEDIA AT TIMES OF CRISES: THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS Europe - Discourse - Politics - Media - History: Constructing 'crises'? B.Strath & R.Wodak Media, Political Communication and the European Public Sphere P.Preston & M.Metykova PART II: CRISES EVENTS AND THE IDEA OF EUROPE IN POST WAR MEDIA DEBATES Out of Maelstroms: Crises and Parlous Developments of Europe since World War II J.Kaye The 1956 Hungarian Revolution in the Hungarian, Austrian and German Media A.Kovacs, A.Horvath, N.Kinsky-Mungersdorff The Berlin Wall crisis: Global Cold War and the Role of Europe H.Schulz-Forberg Paris in May 1968: Social Conflict, Democracy and the Role of Europe H.Schulz-Forberg 'Progressive' Versus 'Bureaucratic' Socialism: How the Myth of Socialism Was Split in Two in the Yugoslav Press Coverage of the Warsaw Pact's Occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968 P.Krasovec & I.Z.Zagar The Discursive Construction of Europe and Values in the Coverage of the Polish 1981 'State of War' in European Press M.Krzy?anowski The Fall of the Berlin Wall: European and Value-oriented Dimensions in the News Discourse J.ter Wal, A.Triandafyllidou, C.Steindler & M.Kontochristou Europe's role in the World: The Invasion of Iraq and the Outbreak of the Second Gulf War J.ter Wal, A. riandafyllidou, C.Steindler & M.Kontochristou The Mohammed Cartoons Crisis: The Role of Islam in the European Public Sphere J.ter Wal, A.Triandafyllidou, C.Steindler & M.Kontochristou Conclusions: Europe, Media, Crisis and the European Public Sphere M.Krzy?anowski , A.Triandafyllidou & R.Wodak Bibliography
Wer erforschen will, wie wir Sprachen erleben, Sprachen erwerben und mit Sprachen umgehen, findet... more Wer erforschen will, wie wir Sprachen erleben, Sprachen erwerben und mit Sprachen umgehen, findet in diesem Buch aktuelle soziolinguistische Zugänge zur Mehrsprachigkeit – mit Fokus einmal auf handelnde und erlebende Subjekte, dann auf verfestigte Diskurse und Sprachideologien und schließlich auf räumlich und zeitlich situierte Praktiken. Das 2013 von Brigitta Busch vorgestellte sprachbiografische Arbeiten gilt mittlerweile als international anerkannte Methode zur wissenschaftlichen Erhebung und Analyse sprachlicher Repertoires. Die Neuauflage wurde um Passagen zu Gebärdensprachen, zu migrations- und sprachenpolitischen Neuausrichtungen unter dem Vorzeichen sogenannter Sicherheitspolitiken, zu Alltagspraktiken der Mediennutzung sowie zu Sprachregimen in urbanen Räumen und in der Arbeitswelt erweitert.
This article considers political measures targeted at individual languages (e.g., the prohibition... more This article considers political measures targeted at individual languages (e.g., the prohibition to use certain terms) as well as policies concerning the relations between different languages. The first part examines different approaches to language policies, language politics, and language planning. Although nation states are still the central players in the field, present trends show that under the influence of the globalized economy, sub-state and supra-state bodies are gaining influence. The second part of the article focuses on language policies in Europe and contextualizes policies on national/official languages and on minority languages with orientations present in the European Union.
In this contribution, we aim to address the following questions: What does it mean to do language... more In this contribution, we aim to address the following questions: What does it mean to do language advocacy in 2022? Under which conditions does it operate? What are the fights, aims, and challenges? On the one hand, answering these questions heavily depends on the political, social, cultural and linguistic context, as well as on the interests, stakes and positions of the advocacy actors. On the other, we argue that recent political economic transformations are conditioning language advocacy more than ever. In the following, we will outline two transformations we consider particularly prevalent, i.e. neoliberalization and securitization, discuss what language advocacy actually means, and exemplify this with the case of the Network LanguageRights (NLR), a language advocacy group based in Vienna, dedicated to language rights of minorities and minoritized speakers in the Austrian context, and with a focus on language policies. We will further zoom into one particular discussion occurrin...
Inside/outside the European Union : enlargement, migration policy and the search for Europe’s ide... more Inside/outside the European Union : enlargement, migration policy and the search for Europe’s identity
Linguistic studies related to trauma are primarily interested in how traumatic events can be verb... more Linguistic studies related to trauma are primarily interested in how traumatic events can be verbalized. This article, in contrast, focusses on ways of translating a traumatic experience into forms of symbolization that do not report on what happened but rather foreground the bodily and emotional sensations linked to (re)living such experiences. In discussing such forms of scenic presentation and condensation, I will build, inter alia, on Wittgenstein’s (1919/1997) distinction between saying and showing as well as on Langer’s (1948) distinction between discursive and presentational forms of meaning making. The close reading of a multimodal text authored by an eight-year-old schoolgirl in the context of a creative-writing activity allows us to identify poetic and artistic means that suggest a reading of the text as a ‘bottled message’ about intense feelings of fear and helplessness. In concluding I argue that Bruner’s (1986) dichotomous distinction between the paradigmatic and the na...
ABSTRACT In the current revival of Gumperz’ notion of the verbal repertoire, which today is rathe... more ABSTRACT In the current revival of Gumperz’ notion of the verbal repertoire, which today is rather termed as communicative or semiotic repertoire, some scholars tend to locate repertoires with individual speakers whereas others see them primarily as emerging from particular spatial arrangements. What is often underestimated in both approaches is the importance of the bodily and emotionally lived experience of communicative interaction. This experience, however, can be critical in preventing resources from being deployed even though they are individually available and appropriate to the situation as well as in mobilising unexpected resources to achieve understanding. Conceiving the repertoire as holding an intermediate and mediating position between situated interactions, (sometimes competing) discourses, and subjects’ lived experiences of communicating, in this paper, I examine the interplay of these instances by introducing the notion of the ‘body image’: an imaginary, affectively loaded representation of the own body in relation to others. Finally, I discuss the language portrait (in which participants visualise their semiotic resources with reference to the outline of a body silhouette) as a window onto the body image and as a method to empirically investigate how people evaluate their resources and position themselves with regard to ideologies of communication.
Jeder Mensch ist mehrsprachig. Wir alle pendeln täglich zwischen verschiedenen Sprechweisen (Dial... more Jeder Mensch ist mehrsprachig. Wir alle pendeln täglich zwischen verschiedenen Sprechweisen (Dialekt, geschriebene Sprache, Umgangssprache, Fachsprache…) und begegnen (in der Straßenbahn, in der Schule, in Medien, auf Reisen ...) einer Vielfalt von Sprachen. Wer erforschen will, wie wir Sprachen erleben, Sprachen erwerben und mit Sprachen umgehen, findet in diesem Band aktuelle soziolinguistische Zugänge zur Mehrsprachigkeit aus Subjekt-, Diskurs und Raumperspektive. Vorgestellt werden auch Methoden der Mehrsprachigkeitsforschung wie sprachbiografisches Arbeiten oder die Exploration lokaler Sprachregime. Neben Studierenden der Linguistik erhalten auch Personen in Ausbildung zu Lehr- und Sozialberufen wertvolle Hilfestellungen für ihre zukünftige Arbeit in einer multilingualen Gesellschaft.
This article considers political measures targeted at individual languages (e.g., the prohibition... more This article considers political measures targeted at individual languages (e.g., the prohibition to use certain terms) as well as policies concerning the relations between different languages. The first part examines different approaches to language policies, language politics, and language planning. Although nation states are still the central players in the field, present trends show that under the influence of the globalized economy, sub-state and supra-state bodies are gaining influence. The second part of the article focuses on language policies in Europe and contextualizes policies on national/official languages and on minority languages with orientations present in the European Union.
Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, Jun 1, 2010
Introduction M.Krzy?anowski, A.Triandafyllidou & R.Wodak PART I: EUROPE AND THE MEDIA AT TIME... more Introduction M.Krzy?anowski, A.Triandafyllidou & R.Wodak PART I: EUROPE AND THE MEDIA AT TIMES OF CRISES: THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS Europe - Discourse - Politics - Media - History: Constructing 'crises'? B.Strath & R.Wodak Media, Political Communication and the European Public Sphere P.Preston & M.Metykova PART II: CRISES EVENTS AND THE IDEA OF EUROPE IN POST WAR MEDIA DEBATES Out of Maelstroms: Crises and Parlous Developments of Europe since World War II J.Kaye The 1956 Hungarian Revolution in the Hungarian, Austrian and German Media A.Kovacs, A.Horvath, N.Kinsky-Mungersdorff The Berlin Wall crisis: Global Cold War and the Role of Europe H.Schulz-Forberg Paris in May 1968: Social Conflict, Democracy and the Role of Europe H.Schulz-Forberg 'Progressive' Versus 'Bureaucratic' Socialism: How the Myth of Socialism Was Split in Two in the Yugoslav Press Coverage of the Warsaw Pact's Occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968 P.Krasovec & I.Z.Zagar The Discursive Construction of Europe and Values in the Coverage of the Polish 1981 'State of War' in European Press M.Krzy?anowski The Fall of the Berlin Wall: European and Value-oriented Dimensions in the News Discourse J.ter Wal, A.Triandafyllidou, C.Steindler & M.Kontochristou Europe's role in the World: The Invasion of Iraq and the Outbreak of the Second Gulf War J.ter Wal, A. riandafyllidou, C.Steindler & M.Kontochristou The Mohammed Cartoons Crisis: The Role of Islam in the European Public Sphere J.ter Wal, A.Triandafyllidou, C.Steindler & M.Kontochristou Conclusions: Europe, Media, Crisis and the European Public Sphere M.Krzy?anowski , A.Triandafyllidou & R.Wodak Bibliography
Wer erforschen will, wie wir Sprachen erleben, Sprachen erwerben und mit Sprachen umgehen, findet... more Wer erforschen will, wie wir Sprachen erleben, Sprachen erwerben und mit Sprachen umgehen, findet in diesem Buch aktuelle soziolinguistische Zugänge zur Mehrsprachigkeit – mit Fokus einmal auf handelnde und erlebende Subjekte, dann auf verfestigte Diskurse und Sprachideologien und schließlich auf räumlich und zeitlich situierte Praktiken. Das 2013 von Brigitta Busch vorgestellte sprachbiografische Arbeiten gilt mittlerweile als international anerkannte Methode zur wissenschaftlichen Erhebung und Analyse sprachlicher Repertoires. Die Neuauflage wurde um Passagen zu Gebärdensprachen, zu migrations- und sprachenpolitischen Neuausrichtungen unter dem Vorzeichen sogenannter Sicherheitspolitiken, zu Alltagspraktiken der Mediennutzung sowie zu Sprachregimen in urbanen Räumen und in der Arbeitswelt erweitert.
This article considers political measures targeted at individual languages (e.g., the prohibition... more This article considers political measures targeted at individual languages (e.g., the prohibition to use certain terms) as well as policies concerning the relations between different languages. The first part examines different approaches to language policies, language politics, and language planning. Although nation states are still the central players in the field, present trends show that under the influence of the globalized economy, sub-state and supra-state bodies are gaining influence. The second part of the article focuses on language policies in Europe and contextualizes policies on national/official languages and on minority languages with orientations present in the European Union.
In this contribution, we aim to address the following questions: What does it mean to do language... more In this contribution, we aim to address the following questions: What does it mean to do language advocacy in 2022? Under which conditions does it operate? What are the fights, aims, and challenges? On the one hand, answering these questions heavily depends on the political, social, cultural and linguistic context, as well as on the interests, stakes and positions of the advocacy actors. On the other, we argue that recent political economic transformations are conditioning language advocacy more than ever. In the following, we will outline two transformations we consider particularly prevalent, i.e. neoliberalization and securitization, discuss what language advocacy actually means, and exemplify this with the case of the Network LanguageRights (NLR), a language advocacy group based in Vienna, dedicated to language rights of minorities and minoritized speakers in the Austrian context, and with a focus on language policies. We will further zoom into one particular discussion occurrin...
Inside/outside the European Union : enlargement, migration policy and the search for Europe’s ide... more Inside/outside the European Union : enlargement, migration policy and the search for Europe’s identity
Linguistic studies related to trauma are primarily interested in how traumatic events can be verb... more Linguistic studies related to trauma are primarily interested in how traumatic events can be verbalized. This article, in contrast, focusses on ways of translating a traumatic experience into forms of symbolization that do not report on what happened but rather foreground the bodily and emotional sensations linked to (re)living such experiences. In discussing such forms of scenic presentation and condensation, I will build, inter alia, on Wittgenstein’s (1919/1997) distinction between saying and showing as well as on Langer’s (1948) distinction between discursive and presentational forms of meaning making. The close reading of a multimodal text authored by an eight-year-old schoolgirl in the context of a creative-writing activity allows us to identify poetic and artistic means that suggest a reading of the text as a ‘bottled message’ about intense feelings of fear and helplessness. In concluding I argue that Bruner’s (1986) dichotomous distinction between the paradigmatic and the na...
ABSTRACT In the current revival of Gumperz’ notion of the verbal repertoire, which today is rathe... more ABSTRACT In the current revival of Gumperz’ notion of the verbal repertoire, which today is rather termed as communicative or semiotic repertoire, some scholars tend to locate repertoires with individual speakers whereas others see them primarily as emerging from particular spatial arrangements. What is often underestimated in both approaches is the importance of the bodily and emotionally lived experience of communicative interaction. This experience, however, can be critical in preventing resources from being deployed even though they are individually available and appropriate to the situation as well as in mobilising unexpected resources to achieve understanding. Conceiving the repertoire as holding an intermediate and mediating position between situated interactions, (sometimes competing) discourses, and subjects’ lived experiences of communicating, in this paper, I examine the interplay of these instances by introducing the notion of the ‘body image’: an imaginary, affectively loaded representation of the own body in relation to others. Finally, I discuss the language portrait (in which participants visualise their semiotic resources with reference to the outline of a body silhouette) as a window onto the body image and as a method to empirically investigate how people evaluate their resources and position themselves with regard to ideologies of communication.
This article concentrates on how census data are processed by statistical offices. It first inves... more This article concentrates on how census data are processed by statistical offices. It first investigates how the language categories displayed in language statistics are actually formed. After that, it considers the mechanisms by which speakers are assigned to specific language categories. With both processes, it addresses the underlying language ideologies, and the ways in which a certain view of the world is thus transported and reinforced. Finally, it discusses how these practices are linked with the paradigms of statehood and territoriality, and how they have been developed historically in the contexts of colonization and of ethno- national conflict. The paper draws on censuses and statistics in Austria to explore these questions, but the procedures used correspond to those in other countries that follow the guidelines set by the Conference of European Statisticians (United Nations 2006).
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