Brigitta Busch
Biographic Data
| ID | 1245034 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brigitta Busch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brigitta |
| FAMILY NAME | Busch |
| SIGNATURE | BUSCH B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2288-0155 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 207 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Developing Multilingual Repertoires—Children’s Lived Experience of Language (Un)Friendly Learning Contexts
Minderheitensprachen
Der Begriff Minderheitensprache ist weniger eindeutig, als er auf den ersten Blick erscheinen mag. So verschieden die Situationen sind, auf die sich der Begriff bezieht, so bezeichnet er doch immer ein asymmetrisches, hierarchisches Verhältnis zu dem, was als ‚Normalität‘ hergestellt wird. Der Dichotomie Minderheits-/Mehrheitssprache liegen sprachideologische Annahmen zugrunde, die davon ausgehen, dass Sprachen und Sprachgemeinschaften voneinande…
Language advocacy in times of securitization and neoliberalization
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 trans…
Indexical borders
This paper engages with the notion of the shibboleth, an indexically loaded, usually referentially indifferent set of (ideologically constructed) minimal pairs that is used in order to mark and perform social differentiation. We argue that the shibboleth is to be considered an interpretive (metapragmatic) phenomenon that operates on different sociolinguistic scales, notably the discursive scale (ideologies of communication), the performative scal…
The body image
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, ho…
Language ideologies and social positioning
In recent years, the intersections between, or entanglements of, local action and translocal patterns gained renewed interest in sociolinguistics. Received distinctions such asmicro/macroorpractice/structurehave been challenged and confronted with more granular concepts such associolinguistic scales. Consequently, established disciplinary orientations such asmicro/macroorqualitative/quantitative sociolinguisticshave also been questioned: rather t…
Message in a Bottle
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 Wittgen…
Categorizing Languages and Speakers
This article examines how census data are processed by statistical offices. It first investigates how the language categories displayed in language statistics are actually elaborated. It then considers the mechanisms by which speakers are assigned to specific language categories. It addresses the language ideologies underlying both these processes and the ways in which a certain view of the world is thus reproduced and reinforced. Finally, it dis…
Language and Trauma
This paper introduces the conceptual framing of studies of trauma. It considers how, on the one hand, applied linguistics may contribute to this study, responding to the suggestion that trauma 'can be best understood through plural, multi-disciplinary perspectives' (Luckhurst 2008: 214), and, on the other hand, the extent to which linguistic studies of trauma can contribute to a better understanding of what Coupland and Coupland (1997: 117) have …
Sprachreflexion und Diskurs
Meinungen zu, Bewertungen von und Urteile über Sprache(n) und Sprachgebrauch sind zentraler Forschungsgegenstand der Sprachideologieforschung, die sich ab den 1980er-Jahren ausgehend von der amerikanischen linguistischen Anthropologie vor allem im englischsprachigen Raum rasch etablieren konnte und heute ein breit verästeltes Feld bildet, das kaum noch zu überblicken ist. Es umfasst das Interesse an alltagsweltlicher Sprachreflexion oder an öffen…
Expanding the Notion of the Linguistic Repertoire
The aim of this article is to explore the connections between the concepts of the linguistic repertoire, of language ideologies, and of lived experience of language. In foregrounding the concept of Spracherleben, the lived experience of language, this article contributes to the ongoing debate on how to rethink the notion of the linguistic repertoire considering that current phenomena such as increased mobility, migration, or participation in tran…
The Linguistic Repertoire Revisited
This article argues for the relevance of poststructuralist approaches to the notion of a linguistic repertoire and introduces the notion of language portraits as a basis for empirical study of the way in which speakers conceive and represent their heteroglossic repertoires. The first part of the article revisits Gumperz's notion of a linguistic repertoire, and then considers the challenge to the concept represented by the conditions of super-dive…
Trends and innovative practices in multilingual education in Europe
Die Macht präbabylonischer Phantasien
The European public sphere and the media. Europe in crisis
edited by Anna Triandafyllidou, Ruth Wodak and Michal Krzyzanowski, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 286 pp., £55.00, ISBN 978‐0‐230‐21042‐4 This book presents the results of an interdiscipli
The political potential of multi-accentuality in the exhibition title ‘gastarbajteri
This article explores the multi-accentuality of the sign ‘gastarbajteri’, used as title word in an exhibition on labour migration that took place in Vienna, Austria, in 2004. Based on an ethnographic study of the exhibition, it addresses a variety of readings of this word, both at the level of production and reception. The analysis of texts shows, firstly, the divergent rationales of the two agents who cooperated as exhibition producers, the mino…
Changing Media Spaces
For many years a central role has been attributed to the media l in the rise of standard and national languages (Innis 1997). Recent developments, however, may well be contributing to the de-centring of national and standard languages. The monolingual habitus of media which address a national audience, their normalizing and standardizing role, is not an inherent feature of particular mass media technologies, but is rather due to the way media tec…
Language and Identity in the Balkans
Language Discourse and Borders in the Yugoslav Successor States
1. Language boundaries as social, political and discursive constructs Brigitta Busch and Helen Kelly-Holmes 2. A Linguist on the Train to Vienna Dubravko Skiljan (Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis, Slovenia) 3. Language and Boundaries in the Yugoslav Context Ranko Bugarski (University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia) 4. Troubled Multicultural Broadcasting in Macedonia Dona Kolar- Panov (Ss Cyril and Methodius University, Republic of Macedonia) 5. Debate 6…
The Linguistic Repertoire Revisited
This article argues for the relevance of poststructuralist approaches to the notion of a linguistic repertoire and introduces the notion of language portraits as a basis for empirical study of the way in which speakers conceive and represent their heteroglossic repertoires. The first part of the article revisits Gumperz's notion of a linguistic repertoire, and then considers the challenge to the concept represented by the conditions of super-dive…
Language and Trauma
This paper introduces the conceptual framing of studies of trauma. It considers how, on the one hand, applied linguistics may contribute to this study, responding to the suggestion that trauma 'can be best understood through plural, multi-disciplinary perspectives' (Luckhurst 2008: 214), and, on the other hand, the extent to which linguistic studies of trauma can contribute to a better understanding of what Coupland and Coupland (1997: 117) have …
Trends and innovative practices in multilingual education in Europe
Language ideologies and social positioning
In recent years, the intersections between, or entanglements of, local action and translocal patterns gained renewed interest in sociolinguistics. Received distinctions such asmicro/macroorpractice/structurehave been challenged and confronted with more granular concepts such associolinguistic scales. Consequently, established disciplinary orientations such asmicro/macroorqualitative/quantitative sociolinguisticshave also been questioned: rather t…
The body image
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, ho…
Language Discourse and Borders in the Yugoslav Successor States
1. Language boundaries as social, political and discursive constructs Brigitta Busch and Helen Kelly-Holmes 2. A Linguist on the Train to Vienna Dubravko Skiljan (Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis, Slovenia) 3. Language and Boundaries in the Yugoslav Context Ranko Bugarski (University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia) 4. Troubled Multicultural Broadcasting in Macedonia Dona Kolar- Panov (Ss Cyril and Methodius University, Republic of Macedonia) 5. Debate 6…
Changing Media Spaces
For many years a central role has been attributed to the media l in the rise of standard and national languages (Innis 1997). Recent developments, however, may well be contributing to the de-centring of national and standard languages. The monolingual habitus of media which address a national audience, their normalizing and standardizing role, is not an inherent feature of particular mass media technologies, but is rather due to the way media tec…
Language and Identity in the Balkans
The political potential of multi-accentuality in the exhibition title ‘gastarbajteri
This article explores the multi-accentuality of the sign ‘gastarbajteri’, used as title word in an exhibition on labour migration that took place in Vienna, Austria, in 2004. Based on an ethnographic study of the exhibition, it addresses a variety of readings of this word, both at the level of production and reception. The analysis of texts shows, firstly, the divergent rationales of the two agents who cooperated as exhibition producers, the mino…
Die Macht präbabylonischer Phantasien
The European public sphere and the media. Europe in crisis
edited by Anna Triandafyllidou, Ruth Wodak and Michal Krzyzanowski, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 286 pp., £55.00, ISBN 978‐0‐230‐21042‐4 This book presents the results of an interdiscipli
Trends and innovative practices in multilingual education in Europe
The Linguistic Repertoire Revisited
This article argues for the relevance of poststructuralist approaches to the notion of a linguistic repertoire and introduces the notion of language portraits as a basis for empirical study of the way in which speakers conceive and represent their heteroglossic repertoires. The first part of the article revisits Gumperz's notion of a linguistic repertoire, and then considers the challenge to the concept represented by the conditions of super-dive…
Expanding the Notion of the Linguistic Repertoire
The aim of this article is to explore the connections between the concepts of the linguistic repertoire, of language ideologies, and of lived experience of language. In foregrounding the concept of Spracherleben, the lived experience of language, this article contributes to the ongoing debate on how to rethink the notion of the linguistic repertoire considering that current phenomena such as increased mobility, migration, or participation in tran…
Sprachreflexion und Diskurs
Meinungen zu, Bewertungen von und Urteile über Sprache(n) und Sprachgebrauch sind zentraler Forschungsgegenstand der Sprachideologieforschung, die sich ab den 1980er-Jahren ausgehend von der amerikanischen linguistischen Anthropologie vor allem im englischsprachigen Raum rasch etablieren konnte und heute ein breit verästeltes Feld bildet, das kaum noch zu überblicken ist. Es umfasst das Interesse an alltagsweltlicher Sprachreflexion oder an öffen…
Message in a Bottle
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 Wittgen…
Categorizing Languages and Speakers
This article examines how census data are processed by statistical offices. It first investigates how the language categories displayed in language statistics are actually elaborated. It then considers the mechanisms by which speakers are assigned to specific language categories. It addresses the language ideologies underlying both these processes and the ways in which a certain view of the world is thus reproduced and reinforced. Finally, it dis…
Language and Trauma
This paper introduces the conceptual framing of studies of trauma. It considers how, on the one hand, applied linguistics may contribute to this study, responding to the suggestion that trauma 'can be best understood through plural, multi-disciplinary perspectives' (Luckhurst 2008: 214), and, on the other hand, the extent to which linguistic studies of trauma can contribute to a better understanding of what Coupland and Coupland (1997: 117) have …
Indexical borders
This paper engages with the notion of the shibboleth, an indexically loaded, usually referentially indifferent set of (ideologically constructed) minimal pairs that is used in order to mark and perform social differentiation. We argue that the shibboleth is to be considered an interpretive (metapragmatic) phenomenon that operates on different sociolinguistic scales, notably the discursive scale (ideologies of communication), the performative scal…
The body image
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, ho…
Language ideologies and social positioning
In recent years, the intersections between, or entanglements of, local action and translocal patterns gained renewed interest in sociolinguistics. Received distinctions such asmicro/macroorpractice/structurehave been challenged and confronted with more granular concepts such associolinguistic scales. Consequently, established disciplinary orientations such asmicro/macroorqualitative/quantitative sociolinguisticshave also been questioned: rather t…
Minderheitensprachen
Der Begriff Minderheitensprache ist weniger eindeutig, als er auf den ersten Blick erscheinen mag. So verschieden die Situationen sind, auf die sich der Begriff bezieht, so bezeichnet er doch immer ein asymmetrisches, hierarchisches Verhältnis zu dem, was als ‚Normalität‘ hergestellt wird. Der Dichotomie Minderheits-/Mehrheitssprache liegen sprachideologische Annahmen zugrunde, die davon ausgehen, dass Sprachen und Sprachgemeinschaften voneinande…
Language advocacy in times of securitization and neoliberalization
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 trans…
Developing Multilingual Repertoires—Children’s Lived Experience of Language (Un)Friendly Learning Contexts
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (8 works) · Linguistic research and analysis (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works)