Krzysztof E. Borowski

Bio:

In his research, Krzysztof examines the intersections of language, identity, and ethnicity, both from linguistic and anthropological perspective. His research areas and interests fall into the broad category of socio cultural linguistics, encompassing (but not limited to) linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, discourse studies, and sociology of language. Ethnic identity, its construction and performance through linguistic and non-­linguistic means (both online and offline) is at the very core of his research agenda. He is especially interested in non­immigrant ethnic minorities and the way they construct and perform their identities. Looking at those issues, he investigates them through the lens of power relations, inequality, and nationalism.

Research Areas and Interests:

Socio-cultural linguistics (linguistic anthropology, socio linguistics, discourse analysis, language in society); ethnic identity studies; non­immigrant ethnic minorities in Europe; language and ethnicity, identity, the Internet; digital anthropology; regionalism; nationalism; Central and Eastern Europe​

Publications/ Papers/ Talks:

(2016) "Forging the Nation: National Discourse of Ethnic Minorities in Poland" (talk).  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MDCcdCIYjs

(2015) "Review: Elzbieta Kaczmarska and Motoki Nomachi, eds. Slavic and German in Contact: Studies from Areal and Contrastive Linguistics," Journal of Slavic Linguistics 23(2): 313-318 (with Alexandra Fisher) 

(2015) "Review: Virve-­Anneli Vihman and Kristiina Praakli, eds. Negotiating Linguistic Identity: Language and Belonging in Europe," Slavia Centralis, 2015/2: 105-107 (with Alexandra Fisher) DOI: 10.17161/1808.18777

(2015) "O jezyku literackim molizanskich Slowian," Poznanskie Studia Slawistyczne 8: 23-36. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/pss.2015.8.1

(2015) “Sociolinguistics and Language Policy of Silesian in Poland” (paper) 

(2015) “Silesia, Silesian, Silesians. The (Non­)Existing Problem of Poland” (talk).http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk2lIZDlRfs

(2014) “Condemned to Extinction: Molise Slavic 100 Years Ago and Now,“ New Insights into Slavic Linguistics, Jacek Witkoś and Sylwester Jaworski (eds.): 51–58. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.

(2014) “Hyphenated Identity. Molise Slavic and Burgenland Croatian as Examples of Ethnolinguistic Leveling” (paper) 

(2014) “What’s in a Name? Molise Croatian vs. Molise Slavic” (paper) 

(2013) “Mikrojęzyki słowiańskie a współczesna typologia języków,” Noviny Slawia 3: 3–6. http://www.novinyslawia.us.edu.pl/01_2013.pdf

(2013) “The Less, the Better? Molise Croatian and its Users 100 Years After Their Idiom’s Prophesized Extinction” (paper)

(2010) "Mikrojezyki slowiaÅ„skie a wspolczesna typologia jezykow" (paper)