Prof. Dr. Britta Schneider

Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences (Kuwi)

Chair Holder of Language Use and Migration

Britta Schneider has been working at European University Viadrina since 2018. Her work focuses on language ideologies, with a particular interest in how languages are discursively and materially constructed, specifically in transnational, multilingual settings and in digital culture. She is the chair of the working group 'Ideologies, Beliefs, Attitudes' for the COST Network Language in the Human-Machine Era. She received her PhD from Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and from Macquarie University Sydney, Australia. Key publications include Salsa, Language and Transnationalism (2014), “Methodological nationalism in linguistics” (Language Sciences, 2019), “The sociolinguistics of late modern publics” (Journal of Sociolinguistics, with Theresa Heyd, 2019), and “Multilingualism and AI – the regimentation of language in the age of digital capitalism” (Signs and Society, 2022).

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Research Interests

Language Ideology Research and the Discursive Construction of Language
Multilingualism and Linguistic Diversity in Digital Society and AI Cultures
Language Contact in Anglophone Spaces and Entanglements
Language, Materiality and Technology – Posthumanist Language Studies
Language in Transnational Settings – Music, Dance, Literature, Digital Space, Consumption
Language and Public Space
Language Policy
Language and Gender

Memberships

Mitglied im Rat für Migration
Mitglied des Management Committees der COST Action 'Language in The Human-Machine Era' für Deutschland (www.lithme.eu)
Honorary Lecturer University College London

Go to Current Research Projects

Full list of publications and conference talks (PDF)

Curriculum Vitae (March 2024)

Overview of current courses on ViaCampus.

Team

Contact

Auditorium Maximum (AM)
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15230 Frankfurt (Oder)