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Strategies of minority language maintenance and transmission in linguistically mixed Upper Sorbian-German families in Upper Lusatia, Germany

2020/37/N/HS2/01444

Keywords:

Family Language Policy minority language transmission Upper Sorbian language practices language ideologies language attitudes

Descriptors:

  • HS2_006:
  • HS2_007:
  • HS2_014:

Panel:

HS2 - Culture and cultural production: literary theory and comparative literature, history of literature, linguistics, library science, cultural studies, arts, architecture

Host institution :

Instytut Slawistyki PAN

woj. mazowieckie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

Sara Mitschke 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 2

Call: PRELUDIUM 19 - announced on 2020-03-16

Amount awarded: 108 001 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2021-01-14

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2025-01-13

Project duration:: 48 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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  • Publication in academic press/journals (2)
  • Book publications / chapters in book publications (1)
  1. Managing linguistic heritage in interlingual families: language, church, and customs in Catholic Upper Lusatia
    Authors:
    Sara Mitschke (Mičkec)
    Academic press:
    Zeszyty Łużyckie (rok: 2025, tom: 63, strony: 121-140), Wydawca: Wydział Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.32798/zl.1910 - link to the publication
  2. Asymmetric societal bilingualism in Upper Lusatia. Narratives of interlingual Upper Sorbian-German families
    Authors:
    Sara Mitschke (Mičkec)
    Academic press:
    Treatises and Documents, Journal of Ethnic Studies (rok: 2025, tom: brak, strony: 77-95), Wydawca: De Gruyter Brill
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.2478/tdjes-2025-0003 - link to the publication
  1. Remarks on identity in Sorbian-German families in Upper Lusatia: Navigating the first language as a criterion for ethnic categorisation
    Authors:
    Sara Mitschke (Mičkec)
    Book:
    Minorities, Identity and Intermarriage: A European Perspective (rok: 2025, tom: brak, strony: brak), Wydawca: Routledge
    Status:
    Accepted for publication