Bücher der Reihe Sprachliche Konstruktion sozialer Grenzen: Identitaeten und Zugehoerigkeiten / Linguistic Construction of Social Boundaries: Identities and Belonging

The book deals with the relationship between speakers' sense of belonging and their language use by examining their interactions in a Guatemalan community. The analysis shows that belonging is tied to the use of social, spatial and temporal categories, the relations between them, and collectively shared linguistic practices.

The methodologies used in the studies of representation in the context of migration, in which narratives are regarded as part of the corpus.

O trabalho analisa a etnicidade em movimento manifestada em descendentes de imigrantes italianos no Brasil na perspectiva da Ecolinguistica e da Linguistica Ecossistemica. O aporte teorico se fundamenta em estudos de Contato de Linguas, Redes Sociais, Comunidades de Pratica, Identidade, "Belonging" e Transculturalidade.

This book investigates the interaction between complex transformational socioeconomic processes, migratory vectors, and the role of ethnic belonging. It outlines the hitherto unexamined determining factors of the mass emigration of the Pontic and Urum Greeks of Georgia.

The Polish language was brought to Brazil by Polish-speaking peasants who came to the New World in the late 19th and early 20th century. Since then, the language has been developing in relative isolation from the European Polish context.In this monograph, the author focuses on a dialect of Polish still spoken in a remote community in the south of Brazil. The dialect¿s origins, history, and present character are investigated to portray the language as a result of a multilingual process with a specific starting point. On the basis of the original data recorded in the community, the author establishes a viable baseline for future in-depth studies of linguistic phenomena. She pays special attention to the distinct identity of the speakers, which mirrors the dialect¿s distinct character.