Brigitta Busch: Heteroglossisches Sprechen
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Date: 2014-05-24

Brigitta Busch: Heteroglossisches Sprechen --  monolinguale Erwartungen: Spracherleben und Sprachrepertoire als Ausgangspunkt

Plenary delivered to the EST Congress in Germersheim, August 29, 2013

Brigitta Busch lectures on Applied Linguistics at the University of Vienna. In 2012 she was awarded the Berta Karlik Chair for Women Scientists. Her first career was in agriculture; her second has been dedicated to issues of multilingualism, first in Carinthia and Southeastern Europe, where she worked for the Council of Europe, and later in South Africa. International recognition has been gained by her language-biographical approach and a creative visual method for the representation and analysis of linguistic repertoires. She is currently doing research on the relationships between migration, multilingualism and traumatic experience. Her academic monographs include Der virtuelle Dorfplatz. Minderheitenmedien, Globalisierung und kulturelle Identität (The Virtual Village Square. Minorities, Globalization and Cultural Identity, 1999); Sprachen im Disput. Medien und Öffentlichkeit in multilingualen Gesellschaften (Languages in Dispute. Media and Public Space in Multilingual Societies, 2004); Von Menschen, Orten und Sprachen. Multilingual leben in Österreich (Of People, Place and Languages. Living Multilingually in Austria), with Thomas Busch (2012); and her inaugural lecture as Berta Karlik Chair Das sprachliche Repertoire oder Niemand ist einsprachig (The Linguistic Repertoire, or No One is Monolingual (2012). She co-edited, with Neville Alexander, Literacy and linguistic diversity in a global perspective. An intercultural exchange with African countries (2007). Her first novel Winterweizen was published in 2011.