Dr. Rita Vallentin

Monographien:

- (2019): Language and Belonging. Local Categories and Practices in a Guatemalan Highland Community. Berlin: Peter Lang.

Herausgeberschaften:

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

Aufsätze und Buchbeiträge:

- (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).

- (2020) "Constructing non-ethnic community belonging on grounds of spatial affiliation: The local adverb aquí in a Guatemalan community". In:  Carsten Levisen, Eeva Sippola (eds.): The Pragmatics of Place: Colonial and Postcolonial Perspectives. Journal of Postcolonial Linguistics, 2, pp. 67-84. Download: https://iacpl.net/journal-of-postcolonial-linguistics-22020/.

- (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 (eds.): Manual of Romance Linguistics, II. Sachgebiete. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter, pp. 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 (eds.): Linguistic Construction of Ethnic Borders. Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, pp. 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, pp. 29-43.

(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. Download: 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. Download: http://lasa.international.pitt.edu/members/congress-papers/lasa2010/files/5897.pdf.

Akademische Abschlussarbeiten:

(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. Freiburg im Breisgau/Buenos Aires. (Masterarbeit)

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

September/Oktober 2019: "Sprach(en)kontakt: Perspektiven und Herausforderungen für eine mehrsprachige und pluriethnische Zukunft. Língua(s) em contato: perspectivas e desafios dum futuro multilíngue e pluriétnico", XXXVI Romanistentag, Kassel. In der Sektion: Sprach(en)kontakt: für eine mehrsprachige und pluriethnische Zukunft organisiert von Konstanze Jungbluth, Monica Savedra und Rita Vallentin.

September 2019: "Gaining an emic perspective – discussing the value of ethnography in understanding constructions of belonging in contexts of diversity" with Britta Schneider at Approaches to Migration, Language and Identity. Practices, Ideologies and Policies now and then (AMLI), Essen, Germany.

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)