Philippe Humbert

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 philippe.humbert@unifr.ch
 +41 26 300 6747
 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2949-0296

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  • Interactional sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and ethnography
  • Multilingualism, minorities, power and inequalities
  • Francophonie and globalization
  • Disabilities and languages in society
  • Politics and epistemology of language documentation
  • Didactics of foreign languages and multilingualism

Biography

Philippe Humbert is a sociolinguist and senior researcher at the Institute of Multilingualism of the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). His research focuses on the interaction of language with social, ethnocultural, political, and economic power dynamics. Based on collective and individual ethnographic and historiographic studies, he has (co-)authored various articles and a book on the epistemology and politics of language documentation and quantification. Currently leading a collective research project on multilingual administrative literacy in Switzerland, he is also exploring the sociolinguistics of disability through a state of the art and a linguistic landscape approach. He occasionally teaches in the Department of Multilingualism and Foreign Language Teaching.

Research and publications

Teaching and courses

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