Stephen Muth
Biographic Data
| ID | 122206 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Muth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Muth |
| SIGNATURE | MUTH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Fribourg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0624-8053 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Neoliberalism: Language and Ideology
This entry illustrates how neoliberalism, as an ideology and model for social‐ and economic development, has fundamentally changed the ways we understand language and culture. I begin with a historical outline of neoliberalism as an economic doctrine that foregrounds free markets as cornerstones of economic growth, development, and innovation before discussing work in applied linguistics and the social sciences that describes the consequences of …
Second-Class Animals: Systematic Discrimination of Farm Animals in German Biology Textbooks
Conditions of commodification: Russian as a transient commodity in an Arctic tourism resort
Based on an ethnography incorporating interview, linguistic landscape and observational data, this research illustrates how temporary linguistic value is negotiated and how an Arctic tourism destination is made fit for consumption for a specific audience. Set within a tourism resort in the Finnish Arctic during two weeks in Winter when the region habitually receives a large influx of Russian-speaking visitors, we illustrate how Russian is concept…
Entrepreneurial visions of the self: Language teaching and learning under neoliberal conditions
In this special issue, we bring together empirical research that takes a critical perspective on the relationship between language learning and individual aspirations for future success. In doing so we aim to initiate a debate on how neoliberal ideology and mode of governance permeate language learning as part of a wider neoliberal project that postulates the ideal of the competitive and self-responsible language learner. The four contributions i…
Language, medical tourism and the enterprising self
This paper aims to demonstrate the implications of health mobility on language practices in the medical tourism industry in India and on the ways, language workers become entrepreneurs. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork that traces the trajectories of three former students of Russian, we highlight their future aspirations as language learners and entrepreneurs and show, how they attempt to capitalize on language skills and respond to changing c…
Russian as a commodity: Medical tourism and the healthcare industry in post-Soviet Lithuania
The focus of this paper is on Lithuania, where government policies continue to limit the use of Russian in education, the public space and the media, while the local economy has recognized proficiency in Russian as a commodity. This is particularly salient in the healthcare industry that grew significantly in the past years with patients from post-Soviet countries seeking treatment at local hospitals and private clinics. Marketed for their ‘Europ…
The commodification of Russian around the world
This special issue is dedicated to the commodification of Russian – the language whose global sociolinguistic behavior had been increasingly attracting scholarly attention (Isurin 2011; Laitin 1998
The ideal Russian speaker is no Russian”: Language commodification and its limits in medical tourism to Switzerland
Policing for commodification: Turning communicative resources into commodities
The Sexual Networks of Racially Diverse Young Men Who Have Sex with Men
War, language removal and self-identification in the linguistic landscapes of Nagorno-Karabakh
The disintegration of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) resulted in demographic shifts and drew new boundaries in a once borderless region. The South Caucasus, an area that has been characterized by its linguistic diversity witnessed one of the most destructive interethnic wars in the former USSR. Fought between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, it resulted in the removal of the Azerbaijani populat…
Informal signs as expressions of multilingualism in Chisinau: How individuals shape the public space of a post-Soviet capital
Informal and transient displays of written language such as graffiti, announcements and notes attached to walls and lampposts form an integral part of an urban linguistic landscape. Especially within multilingual contexts, individuals constantly shape the public space by the languages they use and make language choices that do not always reflect official language policies, commonly held perceptions or the demographic makeup within a certain area.…
Linguistic landscapes on the other side of the border: Signs, language and the construction of cultural identity in Transnistria
In 1992, Transnistria emerged as a de facto independent political entity, not recognized internationally. Russian emerged as a strong marker of a distinct cultural and political identity and as a powerful tool of separation from Moldova. Officially, Transnistria is trilingual in Russian, Ukrainian and Romanian (Moldovan) written in Cyrillic script, yet Russian is the language of choice for most inhabitants. This article presents a linguistic land…
Prevalence of Male Clients of Street Prostitute Women in the United States
Survey estimates of the prevalence of clients of prostitute women are biased because men underreport sex with prostitutes. We conducted capture-recapture analyses of prostitution arrest records in several United States metropolitan areas and found that about two to three percent of adult male residents patronized local street prostitutes during observation periods of two to five years. An estimate from Colorado Springs, based on the prevalence of…
Policing for commodification: Turning communicative resources into commodities
The ideal Russian speaker is no Russian”: Language commodification and its limits in medical tourism to Switzerland
Entrepreneurial visions of the self: Language teaching and learning under neoliberal conditions
In this special issue, we bring together empirical research that takes a critical perspective on the relationship between language learning and individual aspirations for future success. In doing so we aim to initiate a debate on how neoliberal ideology and mode of governance permeate language learning as part of a wider neoliberal project that postulates the ideal of the competitive and self-responsible language learner. The four contributions i…
War, language removal and self-identification in the linguistic landscapes of Nagorno-Karabakh
The disintegration of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) resulted in demographic shifts and drew new boundaries in a once borderless region. The South Caucasus, an area that has been characterized by its linguistic diversity witnessed one of the most destructive interethnic wars in the former USSR. Fought between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, it resulted in the removal of the Azerbaijani populat…
Language, medical tourism and the enterprising self
This paper aims to demonstrate the implications of health mobility on language practices in the medical tourism industry in India and on the ways, language workers become entrepreneurs. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork that traces the trajectories of three former students of Russian, we highlight their future aspirations as language learners and entrepreneurs and show, how they attempt to capitalize on language skills and respond to changing c…
The Sexual Networks of Racially Diverse Young Men Who Have Sex with Men
Informal signs as expressions of multilingualism in Chisinau: How individuals shape the public space of a post-Soviet capital
Informal and transient displays of written language such as graffiti, announcements and notes attached to walls and lampposts form an integral part of an urban linguistic landscape. Especially within multilingual contexts, individuals constantly shape the public space by the languages they use and make language choices that do not always reflect official language policies, commonly held perceptions or the demographic makeup within a certain area.…
Second-Class Animals: Systematic Discrimination of Farm Animals in German Biology Textbooks
Linguistic landscapes on the other side of the border: Signs, language and the construction of cultural identity in Transnistria
In 1992, Transnistria emerged as a de facto independent political entity, not recognized internationally. Russian emerged as a strong marker of a distinct cultural and political identity and as a powerful tool of separation from Moldova. Officially, Transnistria is trilingual in Russian, Ukrainian and Romanian (Moldovan) written in Cyrillic script, yet Russian is the language of choice for most inhabitants. This article presents a linguistic land…
Prevalence of Male Clients of Street Prostitute Women in the United States
Survey estimates of the prevalence of clients of prostitute women are biased because men underreport sex with prostitutes. We conducted capture-recapture analyses of prostitution arrest records in several United States metropolitan areas and found that about two to three percent of adult male residents patronized local street prostitutes during observation periods of two to five years. An estimate from Colorado Springs, based on the prevalence of…
War, language removal and self-identification in the linguistic landscapes of Nagorno-Karabakh
The disintegration of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) resulted in demographic shifts and drew new boundaries in a once borderless region. The South Caucasus, an area that has been characterized by its linguistic diversity witnessed one of the most destructive interethnic wars in the former USSR. Fought between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, it resulted in the removal of the Azerbaijani populat…
Informal signs as expressions of multilingualism in Chisinau: How individuals shape the public space of a post-Soviet capital
Informal and transient displays of written language such as graffiti, announcements and notes attached to walls and lampposts form an integral part of an urban linguistic landscape. Especially within multilingual contexts, individuals constantly shape the public space by the languages they use and make language choices that do not always reflect official language policies, commonly held perceptions or the demographic makeup within a certain area.…
Linguistic landscapes on the other side of the border: Signs, language and the construction of cultural identity in Transnistria
In 1992, Transnistria emerged as a de facto independent political entity, not recognized internationally. Russian emerged as a strong marker of a distinct cultural and political identity and as a powerful tool of separation from Moldova. Officially, Transnistria is trilingual in Russian, Ukrainian and Romanian (Moldovan) written in Cyrillic script, yet Russian is the language of choice for most inhabitants. This article presents a linguistic land…
The Sexual Networks of Racially Diverse Young Men Who Have Sex with Men
Russian as a commodity: Medical tourism and the healthcare industry in post-Soviet Lithuania
The focus of this paper is on Lithuania, where government policies continue to limit the use of Russian in education, the public space and the media, while the local economy has recognized proficiency in Russian as a commodity. This is particularly salient in the healthcare industry that grew significantly in the past years with patients from post-Soviet countries seeking treatment at local hospitals and private clinics. Marketed for their ‘Europ…
The commodification of Russian around the world
This special issue is dedicated to the commodification of Russian – the language whose global sociolinguistic behavior had been increasingly attracting scholarly attention (Isurin 2011; Laitin 1998
The ideal Russian speaker is no Russian”: Language commodification and its limits in medical tourism to Switzerland
Policing for commodification: Turning communicative resources into commodities
Entrepreneurial visions of the self: Language teaching and learning under neoliberal conditions
In this special issue, we bring together empirical research that takes a critical perspective on the relationship between language learning and individual aspirations for future success. In doing so we aim to initiate a debate on how neoliberal ideology and mode of governance permeate language learning as part of a wider neoliberal project that postulates the ideal of the competitive and self-responsible language learner. The four contributions i…
Language, medical tourism and the enterprising self
This paper aims to demonstrate the implications of health mobility on language practices in the medical tourism industry in India and on the ways, language workers become entrepreneurs. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork that traces the trajectories of three former students of Russian, we highlight their future aspirations as language learners and entrepreneurs and show, how they attempt to capitalize on language skills and respond to changing c…
Conditions of commodification: Russian as a transient commodity in an Arctic tourism resort
Based on an ethnography incorporating interview, linguistic landscape and observational data, this research illustrates how temporary linguistic value is negotiated and how an Arctic tourism destination is made fit for consumption for a specific audience. Set within a tourism resort in the Finnish Arctic during two weeks in Winter when the region habitually receives a large influx of Russian-speaking visitors, we illustrate how Russian is concept…
Second-Class Animals: Systematic Discrimination of Farm Animals in German Biology Textbooks
Neoliberalism: Language and Ideology
This entry illustrates how neoliberalism, as an ideology and model for social‐ and economic development, has fundamentally changed the ways we understand language and culture. I begin with a historical outline of neoliberalism as an economic doctrine that foregrounds free markets as cornerstones of economic growth, development, and innovation before discussing work in applied linguistics and the social sciences that describes the consequences of …
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Economics (5 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (5 works) · Commodification (4 works) · Economy (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (4 works) · Politics (4 works)