Project

Multilingualism and Language Strategies in Migration Literature. The Case of Denmark and Sweden 2001-2010

Code
01N02111
Duration
01 January 2011 → 30 June 2016
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities
    • Language studies
Keywords
Scandinavia multilingualism migration literature
 
Project description

Multilingualism has become frequent within contemporary migration literature. The project aims at a comparative study of this phenomenon in Denmark and Sweden 2001-2010. We will study how the co-presence of different languages in literary texts is influencedby discourses on languageand multilingualism in society. Moreover, we ask how such texts and their reception in their turn affect public discourse.