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28 Nov 2023 14:00

What to do when researching languages ‘in conflict’?

Sala Conferenze, Palazzo Cosulich

Martedì 28 novembre 2023 Jelena Božović, ricercatrice presso il Dipartimento di Linguistica dell’Università di Praga, e Marija Runić, linguista e docente all’Università di Banja Luka, terranno due lezioni relative alle politiche linguistiche in Bosnia ed Erzegovina. La lezione introduttiva The sociolinguistic landscape of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Navigating between and beyond ‘difference’ and ‘sameness’ sarà tenuta dalla Božović, mentre nel corso del secondo intervento What to do when researching languages ‘in conflict’? Researcher experiences from Bosnia and Herzegovina, che si accosterà alla questione dal punto di vista della ricerca, interverranno sia Božović che Runić. Il seminario si terrà in inglese nell’Aula Conferenza di Palazzo Cosulich dalle 14 alle 17.

Modera: Marija Bradaš

 

Abstract: Conducting language research in societies affected by broader political conflict might be extremely challenging for researchers. For example, access to data, participants, and institutions can be hindered or even denied due to conflicting interests and ideologies of the parties involved. We draw on our own research experience in Bosnia and Herzegovina to discuss how conflict can interact with all stages of research process: from study design and data collection through analysis and dissemination of results. We present some specific methodological and practical issues and discuss approaches which have the potential to minimize such hindrances. By addressing broader implications of language conflict for scholarship and for society in general, the talk will also be an opportunity to discuss the role of researchers and scholars in shaping the (socio)linguistic situation they are studying. The talk might be of interest to students and researchers of languages spoken in the former Yugoslavia, researchers of linguistics and experts in politics and conflict.

Marija Runić is a linguist from Bosnia and Herzegovina and works at the University of Banja Luka. She holds a doctorate in linguistics from the University of Padua, Italy. Her research interests lie in the area of formal grammar and sociolinguistics. She has worked primarily on Slavic and Romance languages in a situation of language contact. In 2019/20 she was a Fulbright scholar at Western Washington University with a research project on linguistics and education in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina. Besides research and teaching, Dr. Runić has been actively engaged in promoting knowledge about language and fighting linguistic discrimination in Bosnia and Herzegovina and beyond.

Jelena Božović is a doctoral student at the Department of Linguistics, Charles University in Prague and a PhD fellow at CEFRES (French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences). Her PhD project, entitled “Languages in a post-conflict multi-ethnic society”, includes an ethnographic field research centered around the language policy situation in post war Bosnia and Herzegovina. She mainly focuses on the study of language ideologies and the relationship between language and identity, with specific interest in conflict and multi-ethnic settings.

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Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali Comparati, ProgettoEccellenzaDSLCC2023

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