Monitoring the public debate on multilingualism in Luxembourg (Christoph Purschke, University of Luxembourg)
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When: Thu, 25.04.2024 4:00 PM
Where: Digital
DiLCo Lecture Series 2024 is a free of charge online lecture series organized by the NGP project DiLCo under lead from Jannis Androutsopoulos and Heike Zinsmeister. The lectures from top international researchers focus on recent research on digital language and discourse.
All lectures are delivered online via Zoom and are free of charge, but registration is required: https://www.dilco.uni-hamburg.de/activities/lecture-series-2024/registration.html
Abstract
In this talk, I will examine the Luxembourgish public debate on multilingualism and the societal role of Luxembourgish. The focus is on so-called discourse figures, i.e., central images, formulations, and actors of the discourse, and their structure-forming effect in the debate. To this end, I introduce a multi-method approach that combines qualitative, quantitative, and computational approaches. In doing so, the study draws a more comprehensive picture than possible with just one research method. The talk aims to identify central discourse figures in the various datasets and combine them into an overall picture against the background of societal dynamics.