Frederik Bissinger: Präsentation des Dissertationsvorhabens

„The Language Maintenance of Lithuanian Immigrants in Sweden: Family Language Policies, Language Use and Identities“

Föredraget kommer att hållas på engelska och den efterföljande diskussionen kan ske på engelska, svenska och tyska.

 

Frederik Bissinger is a PhD student in Baltic studies since fall 2016. He investigates the maintenance of Lithuanian as a migrant/heritage language in Sweden. In his ethnographic study, he focuses on families with children of the 1.5th and 2nd generation and tries to shed some light on how language policies within families are formed, what strategies parents apply, how languages are used and how identities are formed and negotiated.