Research Projects

 Current research projects

• ARSVIVENDI - Language Diversity and the Concept of Life in German 19th Cen-tury Literature (Till Dembeck)
• CALIDIE - Capitalising on Linguistic Diversity in Education (Adelheid Hu)
• COMPARE - Collaboration with parents and Multiliteracy in early Childhood Education (Claudine Kirsch)
• COVID-KIDS - Understanding the influence of COVID-19 on children’s and adolescents’ school experience and subjective well-being (Claudine Kirsch)
• GRASP - Effects of Grammatical Reflection on Spelling among multilingual pupils (Constanze Weth)
• LaMeGA2 - Laurent Menager. Gesamtausgabe 2 (Damien Sagrillo)
• NEHYDI - Negotiating Hyper-Diversity: Canadian and European Transcultural Theatre Aesthetics (Koku Gnatuloma Nonoa)
• Prozesse der Internationalisierungen im Theater der Gegenwart (Dieter Heimböckel)
• Sustainable Food Practices (Rachel Reckinger)
• STRIPS - A Semantic Search Toolbox for the Retrieve of Similar Patterns in Luxembourgish Documents (Peter Gilles)
• LuxDemo - The origins of democracy in Luxembourg: Mechanisms of democratization at the elite and popular levels (Philippe Poirier)
• Villux 10 - Histoire des villes luxembourgeoises X (Martin Uhrmacher)

Current PhD projects

History

• Die sozialtopographische Entwicklung der Stadt Luxemburg im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (Simon Schneider)
• Handels- und Transportsysteme in Gallien und Germanien (Jan Lotz)
• The Armies of the House of Luxembourg from Henry V to John the Blind (Tom Sadler)
• Re-viewing the constcamer (Floor Koeleman)
• Laurent Menager's Sacral Wind Music in its Music-Historiographical Context (Marlène Duhr)
• Die Legio XXII Primigenia Pia Fidelis (Thierry Groff)
• State-Formation and International Relations: Small Staets and the Role of the Military (Karl Hampel)
• Books, Saints, and Men. For a Revaluation of Latin Hagiographic Culture in the Diocese of Trier (13th-16th Centuries) (Bastien Dubuisson)
• Ambitious Amateurs - European Filmclubs during the long 1960s (Julia Wack)
• Repräsentationsansprüche einer lokalen Elite (Christine Ruppert)

German Studies

• Das fremde Wort. Mehrdeutigkeit und Mehrsprachigkeit in der modernen Lyrik (Arbeitstitel) (Dinah Mareike Schöneich)
• daz was ein dinc, daz hiez … – magische Bücher in der mittelhochdeutschen Literatur (Arbeitstitel) (Ruth Reicher)
• Die Liebe des Zensors oder der unabwendbare Segen der menschlichen Dressur - Pierre Legendres Konzept der dogmatischen Ordnung (Marina Laurent)
• Kunstreflexion im Werk Franz Kafkas (Arbeitstitel) (David Fuchs)
• Narrationen des Ich in deutschsprachigen Autobiografien transgeschlechtlicher Menschen (Arbeitstitel) (Sandy Artuso)

Romance Studies, Media & Arts

• La parole performée. Enquêtes sur les transformations structurelles de l’expression publique de la parole, en France, depuis les années 1980 (Edwin Lavallée)

Luxembourg Studies

• Automatic Detection of Emotions in Luxembourgish User Comments (Daniela Gierschek)
• Luxemburgisch zwischen Variation und Standardisierung. Eine soziolinguistisch-rezeptionslinguistische Studie (Nathalie Entringer)
• Vum Schnuddelmier op d'Äppeltaart. A Digital Approach to Luxembourgish Toponomy (Sam Mersch)
• Language Policy Processes in Luxembourg and Eastern Belgium: Ideologies of Standardization (working title) (Gabriel Alejandro Rivera Cosme)

Philosophy

• Crafting a grammar of political identity - Rawls and Stout on personhood (Deven Burks)
• Data-intensive history and social science. A philosophical study (Thomas Durlacher)
• How language shapes the mind (Hannes Fraissler)
• Les politiques migratoires de l'Union européenne depuis le Traité de Lisbonne: vers un modèle méditerranéen? Etude comparative: Espagne, Grèce et Italie (Emilie Tellier)

Multilingualism

• The effects of grammatical reflection for spelling French plural markers among grade 4 pupils and intra-individual development throughout one year (Lisa Klasen)
• The effects of grammatical reflection for spelling capitals of German nouns among grade 4 pupils and intra-individual development throughout one year (Katinka Mangelschots)
• The development of orthographic practices of multilingual pupils throughout schooling (Linda Brucher)
• An ethnographic study of the interactions and language use of emergent multilingual children in formal and non-formal education settings in Early Childhood in Luxembourg (Simone Mortini)
• Translanguaging for learning: A study of multilingual practices in the primary school (Sarah Degano)
• Internationalisation and multilingualism in doctoral education: A focus on the second language academic writing process (Stephanie Hofmann)
• Diversität und Bildung. Lehrerbiographien – gesellschaftspolitische Anforderungen – Professionelles Handeln (Arbeitstitel) (Jean-Marc Wagner)
• Learners as cultural mediators: Exploring the role and value of children’s multilingual practices for learning (Anastasia Badder)
• From school to work: Multilingual practices of youth in vocational education and training (VET) (Constanze Tress)
• A qualitative study on parent and child engagement in multiliteracy activities in crèches in Luxembourg (working title) (Valérie Kemp)
• Innovative approaches to the multilingual workplace (Veronika Lovritš)

Completed Research Projects

LitCo - Literacies in Contact

The DFG-funded research network of 15 international scholars has been developed and is conducted by Constanze Weth and Manuela Böhm (University of Kassel).

Writing is, because of its durability and strongly rules-oriented system, far more institutionalised than oral language. It is therefore necessary to develop theories about and models of all the different forms of written language contact. However, the basis for theories in the field of language contact research and multiliteracies has been almost entirely oral language data. The study of language contact phenomena based on written language data has been done only on a small scale, particularly either in the field of historical linguistics or in the field of New Literacy Studies. In this sense the major goal of LitCo is to bring about a change of perspective in current fields of studies and to systematically relate multilingualism with multiliteracies.

For more information, see the LitCo-website or contact Constanze Weth.