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This course is a practical continuation of the theoretical part of the seminar, taught in the winter semester. Only students who participated in the winter semester can take part in this course. In this course, students will prepare for their project presentation, scheduled for July 2026, investigating different facets of identity construction and its linguistic realisation. Language is an important means in the construction of human identity. We use language to position ourselves in society in terms of gender, age, place of origin, education, profession, and political or religious beliefs. However, individual, personal identities are always constructed against the background of group-identities and are thus the product of a complex web of internal and external interpretations, making them a dynamic and discursively constructed phenomenon. The first, theoretical part of the course focused on the relation between language and identity from a discourse-analytic perspective and discuss linguistic approaches to the analysis of identity construction. Additionally, we looked at empirical research focusing on the linguistic construction and perception of personal, group and collective identity in various discourse domains, including on- and offline contexts. In the second, practical part of the course, taking part in the summer semester of this year, students will create their own projects related to the theoretical background covered in the winter semester. |
