Forschungsgruppe FOR 5728 CODILAC
Convergence on Dominant Language Constellations: World Englishes in their local multilingual ecologies (CODILAC)
The Research Unit compares the role of English in seven representative and heterogenous multilingual world regions. We juxtapose Botswana, Cebu City (the Philippines), Cyprus, Kurdistan Region (Iraq), Lagos (Nigeria), North-East India, and Tanzania. The Research Unit works directly with local informants based on questionnaires and personal interviews. It produces comprehensive and comparable data sets that are enriched with extensive socio-economic background, ethnographic, and language use information.
The comparison is based on the concepts of multilingual ecologies, language repertoires, and Dominant Language Constellations (DLCs). The Research Unit postulates and searches for common sociolinguistic patterns and outcomes of language contact, migration, and globalization, but is also interested in the unique local characteristics and differences.
Project leaders
- Sarah Buschfeld: “English within the multilingual ecology of divided Cyprus”, TU Dortmund University
- Manuela Vida-Mannl: “English within the multilingual ecology of divided Cyprus”, TU Dortmund University
- Robert Fuchs: “English as a local lingua franca in the multilingual ecology of Northeast India”, University of Bonn
- Roland Kießling: “English in the multilingual ecologies of Tanzania”, University of Hamburg
- Ludwig Paul: “The Kurdistan Region’s language ecology: The shift from Kurdish to English”, University of Hamburg
- Sheena Shah: “English in the multilingual ecologies of Botswana”, University of Hamburg
- Henning Schreiber: “English in selected Local Government Areas of the multilingual ecology of Lagos (Nigeria)”, University of Hamburg
- Peter Siemund: “English in the multilingual ecology of the Philippines: Exploring the sociolinguistics of Cebu City”, University of Hamburg