Family language policies - Language repertoires, practices and ideologies (FLPde)

• Applicant: Professorin Dr. Judith Purkarthofer
• Subject Area: Individual Linguistics, Historical Linguistics
• Term: since 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 547468499

Multilingual families are becoming a research focus in heterogenous post-migrant societies as they serve as the first and potentially most central context of language socialization. In particular in the officially German speaking countries families are also places of social difference: international studies like PISA show the effects of family background in Germany as well as Austria. In this network, researchers from language-related fields (sociolinguistics, German as a Second language, language didactics) work together and exchange with educational and social scientists in order to foster family language policy research that has to this date had a rather unsystematic standing in the region. The field of family language policy research (FLP) is interested in the management of, interactions in and beliefs about family languages, in monolingual contexts as well as in societies with a high number of different languages. These aspects serve as a starting point for research on interaction, language acquisition and language ideologies more broadly. Three topics are central for the network: (A) FLP in different language and family constellations, (B) FLP between families and educational institutions and (C) FLP in the context of conflict and crisis.

• DFG Programme: Scientific Networks
• Co-Investigator: Professorin Dr. Sandra Ballweg