Project Summary
This project is hosted by: Institute of Languages Cultures and Societies
- Research interests:
- Early Modern, Language and Literature (German), Literatures in a modern language
- Regions:
- Africa, Africa, Asia, Asia, Australasia, Australasia, England, England, Europe, Europe, Middle East, Middle East, South America, South America, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
- Project period:
- 07-Jan-2016 - 30-Jun-2019
- Project categories:
- Research project
- Project summary:
This programme aims to develop a new Modern Languages (ML) research paradigm capable of re-conceptualizing the relationship between language and community for the benefit of a more open world. It addresses questions of whether and how the languages we speak define the communities we align with, and how language community boundaries may be made more porous. It identifies 3 intersecting community configurations attributing different roles to language, and attracting distinct methodologies: the multilingual, the transnational and the translingual. In each case, it investigates ties and disjunctions between language and nationhood, and the dynamic of top-down institutional and grassroots networking dimensions of community-building. Tackling these issues across all 3 configurations, each corresponding to a research strand, it aims to recast ML agendas, reshape adjacent disciplinary priorities, offer insights to policy-makers, and invest the civic university with new purpose.
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Management Details
Researchers:
| Name | Position | Institute | Organisation | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catherine Davies | catherine.davies@sas.ac.uk | |||
| Dr Godela Weiss-Sussex | Reader in Modern German Literature | Institute of Modern Languages | SAS | Godela.Weiss-Sussex@sas.ac.uk |