Citizenship, Identity and Language in Luxembourg (LUXCITIZEN)

LUXCITIZEN

Project Team: Dr Kristine Horner (PI) and Joanna Kremer (PhD)

Summary

The 2008 law on Luxembourgish nationality constitutes one of the most significant forms of legislation in contemporary Luxembourg. This project explores the motivations and rationale behind the new law 鈥 including the decision to implement formalised language testing in Luxembourgish 鈥 and it also seeks to understand the impact that this law is having on social actors. Dr Horner鈥檚 work provides an analysis of the ways in which this policy is discursively negotiated in multiple sites, including media discourse and legislative texts. Ms Kremer鈥檚 analysis is focused on semi-structured interviews conducted with individuals who are applying or have recently applied for Luxembourgish nationality. The project examines how official policies are intertwined with individual experiences and findings also unpack the multiple conceptualisations of citizenship.

Publications

Kremer, J. and K. Horner. Forthcoming, 2016. 'Eng flott Diskriminatioun?: Language and citizenship policy in Luxembourg as experience.' In: Barakos, E. and J. Unger (eds). Discursive Approaches to Language Policy. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Horner, K. and J. Kremer. Forthcoming, 2016. 'Shifting ideologies of linguistic authority: language, nation and citizenship in Luxembourg.' In: Rutten, G. and K. Horner (eds). Metalinguistic Perspectives on Germanic Languages: European Case Studies from Past to Present. Oxford: Peter Lang (Historical Sociolinguistics).

Horner, K. 2015. . In: Milani, T.M. (ed.). Language and Citizenship: Special Issue of Journal of Language and Politics 14/3: 359-281.

Horner, K. 2015. . Language and Linguistics Compass 9/5: 209-218.

Kremer, J. 2014. 鈥淐ome back next year to be a Luxembourger鈥: Perspectives on language testing and citizenship legislation 鈥榝rom below鈥. In: Horner, K., I. de Saint-Georges and J-J. Weber (eds). 2014. . Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang (Sprache, Mehrsprachigkeit und sozialer Wandel). 171-187.

Horner, K. 2013. 'Media representations of multilingual Luxembourg: constructing language as a problem, resource, right or duty?' In: Kelly-Holmes, H. and T.M. Milani (eds). . Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins (Benjamins Current Topics 49). 23-42.

Horner, K. 2011.  In: Kelly-Holmes, H. and T.M. Milani (eds). Thematising Multilingualism in the Media: Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 10/4: 491-510.

Horner, K. 2009. `Language, citizenship and Europeanization: unpacking the discourse of integration.麓 In: Hogan-Brun, G., C. Mar-Molinero and P. Stevenson (eds). . Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins (Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 33). 109-128.

Horner, K. 2009. `Regimenting language, mobility and citizenship in Luxembourg.麓 In: Extra, G., M. Spotti and P. Van Avermaet (eds).. London/New York: Continuum Press (Advances in Sociolinguistics). 148-166.