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2021

'Die Deutsche Sprache queeren' im Tages-Anzeiger

Wir freuen uns über die Medienberichterstattung zum Projekt von Lovis Hoppmann, das dieses Jahr mit dem 'CSLS Prize in Language and Social Justice' ausgezeichnet wurde. Hier geht es zum online Artikel

CSLS Prize in Language and Social Justice

The CSLS is very pleased to award the first ever "CSLS Prize in Language and Social Justice" to Lovis Hoppmann (University of Zurich). The winning project, "queering the German language", deals with the development of a best practice language guide for gender-sensitive language use in a heterogeneous Swiss society. We congratulate Lovis warmly and look forward to the lecture on the project, which will take place on 15 December as part of the lecture series "Language and Social Justice"!

Elite Authenticity: Remaking Distinction in Food Discourse

We congratulate Gwynne Mapes on the publication of her new book, "Elite Authenticity: Remaking Distinction in Food Discourse"!

Best MA degree goes to a CSLS student

We would like to congratulate our sociolinguistics graduate Giuanna Caviezel on the best Master's degree of the Phil.-hist. Faculty in FS21! Super job, Giuanna!

Le cerveau pense-t-il au masculin ?

We are delighted to announce Sandrine Zufferey's new book: Le cerveau pense-t-il au masculin ?

Sandrine Zufferey is professor of French linguistics in Bern, and a member of the CSLS board.

CSLS Prize in Language and Social Justice

The CSLS is delighted to announce the creation of the CSLS Prize in Language and Social Justice. The prize will be awarded annually from 2021 to a junior researcher (PhD student or early postdoc) who has conducted research on language, inequality and social (in)justice in Switzerland.

Sociolinguistics Symposium 23

Sociolinguistics at the University of Bern is once again strongly represented at the Sociolinguistics Symposium. For this year's SS23 on 'Unsettling Language', the CSLS is excited to bring together our reserachers to discuss all Bernese contributions: a plenary talk by Crispin Thurlow, as well as 14 other presentations (see list attached).

One language for all

Check out Erez Levon's interview about language and sexism at Radio RaBe

BeLing Colloquium 2021

The BeLing research colloquium is a full-day online event for PhDs and Postdocs to present their current research, accompanied by a keynote talk and two workshops about funding opportunities and grant proposal writing.

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2020

Wie Corona unsere Sprache verändert - Umfrage von SRF und SDATS

Das Team des SDATS-Projeks am CSLS wollte genauer wissen, wie das Corona-Virus unsere Sprache verändert. Sagen Sie "das" Virus oder "der" Virus? Zusammen mit SRF lancierte es eine Umfrage. Hier geht es zu den Ergebnissen.

New paper: Voice quality in British English

Read Adrian Leemann's new paper on voice quality in British English published in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence

Ringvorlesung Jugendsprache

CSLS Ringvorlesung im Herbstsemester 20

Conference: «Dynamics of (im)mobilities and discursive practices in the 21st century»

CSLS Summer School 2020

Workshops | Guest Lectures | Presentations | Posters

Invited Speakers:
Prof. Dr. Daniel Schreier
Dr. Rebekka Studler
PD Dr. Jabob Leimgruber
Prof. Dr. Tobias Hodel

On the reverberations of offensive actions. Relational stories from a London ghetto.

Lecture
Rosina Márquez Reiter,
The Open University

Sound perspectives for inferring social meaning? Speech and speaker dynamics over a century of Scottish English

Lecture
Jane Stuart-Smith,
University of Glasgow

Language policy, globalization and development: Buzzwords, political economy and the ‘use’ of English worldwide

Lecture
Joseph Comer,
Universität Bern

Mommybloggers upload the park. Instagramming as digital semiotic landscape-making

Lecture
Martin Paviour-Smith,
Massey University

Multiethnolects and The Founder Principle – The dominance of Romani and Turkish loans in Low Stockholmian

Lecture
Nathan Young,
Stockholm University

Her dow half spake posh, dow her. The Black Country dialect: what does it sound like, why is it so unpopular, and how does its use of the pronouns she and her express solidarity, respect and disrespect?

Lecture
Lyndon Higgs
Strasbourg University, France

Multilingualism and Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa as Key to Sustainability?

Lecture
Djouroukoro Diallo,
Universität Bern

Master's open days

Get the information, make your decision, study with focus.

You will soon be changing from a bachelor's to a master's degree program and still have a number of unanswered questions? We will keep you posted! You will find the perfect field of study at the Master’s open days. The University of Bern offers a full range of courses in all areas of study – from law and economics through natural sciences and historical sciences to the science of religion and cultural studies.

Visit our Master's open days events and find out more about the subject you are interested in. You will get a chance to talk to master students and lecturers who will be happy to give you valuable tips and recommendations in a direct exchange. Besides, regular courses in numerous fields of study will be opened up so that you can see for yourself how lectures and seminars are conducted.

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