Brigitta Busch
List of John Benjamins publications for which Brigitta Busch plays a role.
Articles
2015 "Without language, everything is chaos and confusion ...": Corporal-emotional linguistic experience and the linguistic repertoire Emotion in Language: Theory – research – application, Lüdtke, Ulrike M. (ed.), pp. 273–288 | Article
The connection between language and trauma has so far been mainly discussed
with regards to the difficulty of narrating traumatic experience. The issue of
multilingualism and traumatic experience has mainly been raised in studies on
language loss or change. This contribution takes an approach based… read more
2009 Local actors in promoting multilingualism Discourses on Language and Integration: Critical perspectives on language testing regimes in Europe, Hogan-Brun, Gabrielle, Clare Mar-Molinero and Patrick Stevenson (eds.), pp. 129–152 | Chapter
Although language policy formally remains a nation state domain, in the process of
glocalisation other actors gain in importance. Local authorities – closer to the daily
life of the citizens than the central state authorities – are only beginning to realise
their role in the field of… read more
2007 The political potential of multi-accentuality in the exhibition title ‘gastarbajteri’ Journal of Language and Politics 6:3, pp. 437–457 | Article
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… read more