Language and Identity in Migration Contexts

Patricia Ronan holds a chair of English Linguistics at TU Dortmund University. She received her PhD at Maynooth University (Ireland) and she has held further positions in Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Germany. Her main research interests are in language variation and language contact. At the time of writing, she is co-authoring an Introduction to Multilingualism for Palgrave Macmillan (with Sarah Buschfeld), and is working, amongst other projects, on the linguistic inclusion of migrants, on media language and on variationist pragmatics.
Evelyn Ziegler is Professor of German Linguistics at the University of Duisburg-Essen. She earned her PhD in sociolinguistics at the University of Heidelberg. Her research focus is on language variation, multilingualism, computer mediated communication, linguistic landscapes and attitude studies. Currently, she is particularly interested in the construction of language attitude expressions in the context of migration and integration (Ziegler et al. 2020).