Two new Oldenburg projects in hearing research and political science have recently received funding from the state. The focus is on the influence of bilingualism on listening comprehension and the construction of social groups by political parties.
The Lower Saxony Ministry of Science has approved up to 500,000 euros each for the next four years for the two projects in the “Research Cooperation Lower Saxony - Israel” program. In the first project, the linguists Prof. Dr. Esther Ruigendijk from the University of Oldenburg and Dr. Hanin Karawani from the University of Haifa in Israel want to find out why people who are at home in two languages find it particularly difficult to understand language in a noisy environment. In the second project, Oldenburg political scientist Prof. Dr. Marius Sältzer is working with Dr. Tristan Klingelhöfer from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Dr. Alona Dolinsky from the Free University of Amsterdam (Netherlands). The three researchers are investigating the question of whether political actors themselves construct the identities of the social groups they represent through their communication.
In their project “Bilingualism in challenging listening conditions: Is it language specific or a general mechanism?” to jointly explore how early language experiences, especially bilingualism, influence the processing of language in the brain and how this affects the ability to understand language. “Most people in the world use more than one language in everyday life - a fact that has hardly been taken into account by hearing research to date,” explains Ruigendijk. The aim is to find out why a noisy environment poses particular challenges for bilingual people.
Two new Oldenburg projects in hearing research and political science have recently received funding from the state. The focus is on the influence of bilingualism on listening comprehension and the construction of social groups by political parties.
The Lower Saxony Ministry of Science has approved up to 500,000 euros each for the next four years for the two projects in the “Research Cooperation Lower Saxony - Israel” program. In the first project, the linguists Prof. Dr. Esther Ruigendijk from the University of Oldenburg and Dr. Hanin Karawani from the University of Haifa in Israel want to find out why people who are at home in two languages find it particularly difficult to understand language in a noisy environment. In the second project, Oldenburg political scientist Prof. Dr. Marius Sältzer is working with Dr. Tristan Klingelhöfer from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Dr. Alona Dolinsky from the Free University of Amsterdam (Netherlands). The three researchers are investigating the question of whether political actors themselves construct the identities of the social groups they represent through their communication.
In their project “Bilingualism in challenging listening conditions: Is it language specific or a general mechanism?” to jointly explore how early language experiences, especially bilingualism, influence the processing of language in the brain and how this affects the ability to understand language. “Most people in the world use more than one language in everyday life - a fact that has hardly been taken into account by hearing research to date,” explains Ruigendijk. The aim is to find out why a noisy environment poses particular challenges for bilingual people.
