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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | General and Applied Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages,Ethnology, European Ethnology |
| Keywords | multilingualism, globalization, la francophonie |
Current contact address
| Country | Canada |
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| City | Toronto |
| Institution | University of Toronto |
| Institute | Centre de Recherches en Education Franco-Ontarienne |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Klaus Bochmann | Institut für Romanistik, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig |
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| Prof. Dr. Carol W. Pfaff | Institut für Romanistik, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig |
| Prof. Dr. Carol W. Pfaff | John F. Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, Abteilung Sprache, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin |
| Prof. Dr. Werner Kallmeyer | Institut für deutsche Sprache, Mannheim (IDS), Mannheim |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/11/1996 |
Program(s)
| 2000 | Konrad Adenauer Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Dr. Monica Heller of the University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education is widely-known for her critical, ethnogrpahic sociolinguistic approach to the role of language in the construction of social relations, social categories and social structures as eemplified in her books, Crosswords: Language, Education and Ethnicity in French Ontario, 1994, Linguistic Minorities and Modernity: A Sociolinguistic Ethnography, 1999, co-edited volume with M. Martin-Jones, Voices of Authority: Education and Linguistic Difference, 2001. During her stay she will lead a seminar in Theory, Method and Critique in Ethnographic Sociolinguistic Research at the Kennedy Institute. |