Im Laufe vieler Jahrtausende hat sich in Europa ein Sprachenmosaik entwickelt, das zurzeit aufgrund von Globalisierung und internationaler Mobilität einem tiefgehenden Wandel ausgesetzt ist.

Wie die Forschung auf die Veränderung der Sprachenlandschaft und des sprachlichen Verhaltens reagiert, ist einer der Schwerpunkte der Diskussionsveranstaltung "Neue Blickwinkel auf die europäische Mehrsprachigkeit?", die am Donnerstag, 30. September 2010, am Campus der Universität Wien stattfindet. Die Veranstaltung ist Teil des interdisziplinären EU-Projekts ELDIA.

Mit den DYLAN-Mitgliedern Ruth Wodak und Barbara Seidlhofer sowie der LINEE-Forscherin Rosita Schjerve-Rindler nehmen zwei weitere grosse EU-Projekte an der Diskussion teil.

Mehr Information

The SAGE Handbook of Sociolinguistics will be published soon. Directed by University of Lancaster Ruth Wodak, Barbara Johnstone & Paul E Kerswill, it also contains contributions from DYLAN Coordinators Anne-Claude Berthoud and Georges Lüdi.
More information are available here.

We would like to congratulate on behalf of DYLAN WP2 Manager Ruth Wodak who has just become a member of the prestigious Academia Europea. The latter is a functioning European Academy of Humanities, Letters and Sciences, composed of individual members, and membership is by invitation.

We are glad to announce this recent publication directed by University of Vienna researchers Cornelia Hülmbauer, Eva Vetter & Heike Böhringer,and based on a workshop at the 36th Österreichische Linguistiktagung (ÖLT) in Vienna.
Within this book you will find contributions by several DYLAN members such as Barbara Seidlhofer (UNIVIE), Ulrike Vogl (FUB), Michal Krzyzanowski & Ruth Wodak (LANCS).
 
You will find more details here.
 

We would like to announce that our third newsletter is now available. It can downloaded directly from the newsletter page of the DYLAN website. And the dilemma of your seaside reading has been solved!

We are pleased to announce that the deadline for application to the second DYLAN doctoral school has been extended. The new deadline is 15 July 2010.

Aiming at fostering the dialogue on multilingualism and linguistic diversity in Europe and beyond, the school will explore the following topics:

- Incentives in language behaviour
- Models of Language dynamics
- Socio-psychological dimensions of individual multilingualism

For further details on the contents, programme and organisation of the Second DYLAN Doctoral School, incl. application procedure and practicalities, please visit the dedicated DYLAN webpage.

DYLAN WP4 Manager François Grin is the co-author of this new publication (in collaboration with Claudio Sfreddo and François Vaillancourt), which proposes a path-breaking study of the economics of multilingualism at work, proposing a systematic approach to the identification and measurement of the ways in which language skills and economic performance are related. If you are interested, more information and an order form can be found by downloading this PDF file.

The Forum for Interdisciplinary Dialogue: “Ideas, Innovation and Communication” will organise this international symposium, dedicated to the discussion of the multiple interdisciplinary dimensions of ‘migrations’, both from the viewpoints of the Social Sciences and Humanities as well as from the manifold perspectives of the Natural Sciences.
It will be held at the University of Vienna on the 1-3 July 2010, and is co-organised by DYLAN’s WP2 Manager Ruth Wodak. You can satisfy your curiousity on the conference website, available here.

The UAB DYLAN team participated in the organisation of a work session directed at university teaching staff, policy makers and the broader university community, held on 01 June, 2010. UAB DYLAN members Luci Nussbaum and Cristina Escobar presented findings from the UAB DYLAN team’s research. University authorities and professors experienced in teaching content subjects in English at the UAB also spoke.

Die Universität Bozen hat eine Stelle ausgeschrieben, mit der das Bozener DYLAN Team Verstärkung für das Kompetenzzentrum Sprachen eine/n Forscher/in im Bereich Germanistik sucht.

Je nach Curriculum ist die Einstellung als doc oder post-doc möglich.

Der Einsendeschluss für Bewerbungen ist bis zum 21.Juni.2010 verlängert worden. Weitere Informationen finden Sie auf der Webseite der Universität Bozen.