Dr. Rita Vallentin

- (im Druck): Belonging and Language Use. Local Categories and Practices in a Guatemalan Highland Community. Berlin: Peter Lang.

- (in Vorbereitung): "Ambiguities of space and place. Making sense of the rural/urban divide in interaction". In: Mancini, Bruna/Maiorani, Arianna (Hrsg.), Space Intersections: Cross-Disciplinary Encounters in Narrative Places. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (mit Dominik Gerst und Concha Maria Höfler).

- (under review): "Constructing non-ethnic community belonging with the local adverb aquí in Guatemala". In:  Carsten Levisen, Eeva Sippola (Hrsg.): The Pragmatics of Place: Colonial and Postcolonial Perspectives. Special Issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Linguistics.

- (2019): "Linguistic Practices. Theoretical approaches and empirical findings." In: Repertórios plurilíngues em situação de contato. Rio de Janeiro, UERJ.

- (2017): "Contando a própria identidade – uma narrativa quilombola como projeto colaborativo". Anais do V Simpósio Mundial de Estudos de Língua Portuguesa. 

- (2015): Jungbluth, Konstanze/Vallentin, Rita: "Brazilian Portuguese". In: Jungbluth, Konstanze/da Milano Federica (Hrsg.): Manual of Deixis in Romance Languages. In: Holtus, Günter/Sánchez Miret, Fernando (edd.): Manual of Romance Linguistics, II. Sachgebiete. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter, S. 315-331.

- (2015): "Linguistic Strategies of Constructing Durable and Permeable Ethnic Boundaries in a Brazilian Quilombo Community". In: Jungbluth, Konstanze/Rosenberg, Peter/Zinkhahn Rhobodes, Dagna (Hrsg.): Linguistic Construction of Ethnic Borders. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, S. 33-53.

- (2013): "Global Studies and Language Use. English(es) in the Academic World(s)". In: Fulquet, Gastón/Janz, Caroline/Kumar, Asheesh (eds.): Analyzing Globalization in the 21st Century. New Delhi: Palm Leaf, S. 29-43.

Rosenberg, Katharina / Vallentin, Rita (Hrsg.) (2012): Norm und Normalität. Beiträge aus Linguistik, Soziologie, Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften. Berlin: Logos.

(2012): "Entwurf eines praxeologischen Ansatzes für die empirische Normenforschung". In: Rosenberg, Katharina / Vallentin, Rita (Hrsg.): Norm und Normalität. Beiträge aus Linguistik, Soziologie, Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften. Berlin: Logos.

(2012): "El idioma como práctica social - Construyendo una identidad rural comunitaria amarrada al aquí". Paper written for the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Conference in San Francisco, May 2012: https://lasa.international.pitt.edu/members/congress-papers/lasa2012/files/31042.pdf

(2011): “La lengua como práctica social – La influencia de ONGS transnacionales en las prácticas sociales de una comunidad local en Guatemala”. Paper written for the Alfal. Publicación en Actas del XVI Congreso de la Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de la América.

(2010): En-gendered linguistic varieties in a project of grassroots-glocalization? A case-study from the Guatemalan highlands. Paper written for the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Conference in Toronto, October 2010: http://lasa.international.pitt.edu/members/congress-papers/lasa2010/files/5897.pdf.

(2010): An Imagined Community through Participation in a Global Public Sphere? A Case Study about the Influences of Glocalization on the Identity Structures of a Guatemalan Rural Community. (Masterarbeit)

(2007): Identitäts- und Sprachstrukturen bei Hispanics in den USA. Zu einer Mixing- und Switching-Hypothese. (Bachelorarbeit)

Juni 2019: "Dealing with Marginality in Brazilian Quilombo communities". 16th International Pragmatics Conference, Hong Kong, China. In the Panel: Dealing with Marginality: Categories and Positioning in Interaction organised by Concha Maria Höfler, Maria Klessmann and Rita Vallentin.

Januar 2019: Podiumsdiskussion zum Thema "Los dilemas de la educación intercultural" im Ibero-Amerikanischen Institut, Berlin.

November 2018: "Quilombos in Brasilien: Zwischen Widerstand, Bewahrung und Anpassung". Vortragsreihe Afrolateinamerika - Kolonialismus und neue Diversität des Zentralinstituts für Lateinamerikastudien (ZILAS), Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.

September 2018: "A luta identitária quilombola: um quilombo fluminense entre preservação e adaptação". Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brasilien.

Juli 2018: "Navigating interactional context and story structure: Evidence from two narratives by the same speaker". Narrative Matters 2018, The ABCs of Narrative, Enschede, Netherlands.

Juli 2018: Chair of the Panel: "Identity, change, and development: Gender, power and agency." Narrative Matters 2018, The ABCs of Narrative, Enschede, Netherlands.

Juli 2017: "Somos todos de aquí - 'We all are from here': Place as a co-constructed category qualifier in identification practices". 15th International Pragmatics Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

März 2017: "O alemão e o polonês como línguas de migração no Brasil a partir de uma perspectiva estrutual". X Congresso Internacional da ABRALIN, Niterói, Brasil.

Juni 2016: "'Not merely there'" – Empirical evidence for the interrelation between an interaction and its observing researcher". Sociolinguistic Symposium 21, Murcia, Spanien

Oktober 2015: "Contando a própria identidade – Co-construções em uma narrativa quilombola". Simpósio Mundial de Estudos de Língua Portuguesa, Lecce, Italien

September 2013: "Borders, Discourses, Identity: An Introduction or a 'zoom out' from the individual to discourse". 13th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA), New Delhi, India. 

September 2013: Panel Organization in collaboration with Concha Maria Höfler and Katharina Rosenberg: Borders, Discourses, Identity at the 13th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA), New Delhi, India. 

August/September 2013: "Discursive strategies of constructing social borders between durability and permeability in a Brazilian quilombo community". Internationale Tagung Sprachliche Konstruktion Sozialer Grenzen, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany.

Mai 2013 - Live beim Science Slam im Fritz Club im Postbahnhof in Berlin und via Fernsehen beim rbb: "'Wir und die da' - Wie wir mit Sprache Gruppenzugehörigkeit herstellen". --> MOZ-Artikel zum Science Slam

April 2013: "We/here/now - Deictic elements as identity markers in spoken interaction". i-Mean@UWE 3 conference at the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, Great Britain.

März 2013: "Borders without borderland: The construction of a border-based varying groupness by an afro-Brazilian community". Borders and Identities Conference (BIC 2013),Rijeka, Croatia.

August 2012: “Groupness and place narratives – The importance of “here” in identity constructions of a Guatemalan community”. 19th Sociolinguistic Symposium, Berlin, Germany.

Mai 2012: “El idioma como práctica social - Construyendo una identidad rural comunitaria amarrada al ‘aquí’”. Internationaler Kongress der Latin American Studies Association (LASA), San Francisco, USA.

März/April 2012: “Global Studies and Language Use: English(es) in the academic world(s)“.  Understanding Dynamics of Globalization, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.

Juni 2011: “La lengua como práctica social – La influencia de ONGs transnacionales en las prácticas sociales de una comunidad local en Guatemala”. Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Lingüística y Filología de la América Latina (ALFAL), Alcalá de Henares, Spain.

Dezember 2010: „Think globally, act locally! – Eine Fallstudie zur Änderung von lokalen Strukturen durch Anpassung an Normen transnationaler Organisationen“. Promovierendenworkshop Norm und Normalität, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany.

Oktober 2010: „En-gendered linguistic varieties in a project of grassroots-glocalization? A case-study from the Guatemalan highlands“. Internationaler Kongress der Latin American Studies Association (LASA): Sektion: Variación lingüística en América: manifestaciones locales, Toronto, Canada.

Forschungsschwerpunkte

• Soziolinguistik
• Pragmatik
• Zugehörigkeit und Identifikation
• Mehrsprachigkeit, Sprachkontakt und Sprachwandel
• Globalisierung
• Sprache als soziale Praxis

Dissertationsschrift:

Belonging and Language Use. Narrating, Categorizing and Positioning in a Guatemalan Highland Community.

Sprachen

Englisch, Spanisch, Portugiesisch, (Französisch)