Minorities and multilingualism: The research areas of Günther Rautz and Andrea Abel are as socio-politically central as they are sensitive in South Tyrol as well as being a clear mirror of how the society is changing. Rautz, a lawyer, and his team began researching new minorities at an early stage, while Abel, a linguist, advocates understanding multilingualism in a comprehensive sense that includes all languages and varieties. Both are convinced that diversity is highly valuable asset. 

Conversations between disciplines: interview with linguist Andrea Abel and lawyer Günther Rautz. 

"20 years ago, people thought migration wasn’t an issue in South Tyrol"

Con la linguista Olga Lopopolo ripercorriamo le varie forme in cui le lingue si contaminano tra loro. Il suo interesse si concentra sulle interferenze che si verificano quando studiamo una lingua straniera e la nostra prima lingua – o quelle che conosciamo già – ci vengono in soccorso se ci mancano le parole.  

Qualche cenno su prestiti linguistici, commutazioni di codice e innovazioni linguistiche 

Se son rose… finiranno nel dizionario

The letters of the alphabet were invented almost four thousand years ago, in Mesopotamia, to speed up communication: drawing objects to be sold or exchanged wasted precious time for trading. Over the past thirty years, we have been reintroducing pictograms into our writing. This time mainly to express emotions and feelings. 

As we celebrate the European Day of Languages we look at some interesting facts about writing systems of the past and present.

Returning to the origins of writing - with emojis

La stampa richiama lo studio Kolipsi II

Se ne parla: competenze nella seconda lingua nelle scuole altoatesine

A che punto è la ricerca? Come funzionano le cose nella quotidianità scolastica? Qual è la cornice legale? Quanto siamo plurilingui e come potremmo sfruttare ancora di più questo potenziale? Questo dossier presenta il plurilinguismo vecchio e nuovo di chi abita in Alto Adige da diverse angolazioni.

Una fotografia poliedrica dell'Alto Adige

Plurilinguismo

Covid-19 versetzte uns nicht nur in eine medizinische, soziale und wirtschaftliche Krise: Auch was die Informationsflut betraf, befanden wir uns in einer Art Ausnahmezustand, wurden bombardiert mit martialischer Rhetorik und neuen Begriffen, kommunizierten noch mehr online als vorher schon und erlebten, wie Gerüchte und Halbwahrheiten sich schneller als Viren verbreiten. Andrea Abel beleuchtet die Erfahrung aus Sicht einer Sprachforscherin.

Ein Interview mit Andrea Abel, Leiterin des Instituts für Angewandte Sprachforschung

Sprache in Zeiten von Corona

PACS - Linguistic Racism in multilingual areas. An interdisciplinary approach

Digital language infrastructure for South Tyrol

Stances Toward Education in Multilingual Contexts

Zeit.shift – On a digital journey into yesterday's future: preserving Tyrol's cultural text heritage while making it accessible and known.

Coherence in academic Italian

One School, Many Languages 2.0

 Measuring language quality in the digital age

Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure for Italy at Eurac Research

Digital infrastructure for the South Tyrolean ecosystem of language data and services

Plurilingual repertoires of South Tyrolean students and their survey, description and usage in multilingual learning scenarios

Learner Corpus Infrastructure

KOLIPSI II: South-Tyrolean pupils and the second language: a linguistic and socio-psychological investigation

European Network of e-Lexicography

Digital Natives - Digital Immigrants. Writing on Social Network Sites: a corpus-based observation of the current language use in South Tyrol, with particular consideration of the writers' age

Andrea Abel

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