Master’s Thesis Award
About the EFNIL Master’s Thesis Award
The EFNIL Master’s Thesis Award is an annual competition to find the best master’s theses in Europe within the area of language use, language policy and multilingualism.
EFNIL wishes to inspire and motivate young researchers to engage in scientific projects on language use, language policy and multilingualism, and to disseminate new ground-breaking research on language use, language policy and multilingualism to a wider audience.
The students that submit the best three theses will each be awarded:
1. the EFNIL Master’s Thesis Award (1500 Euro)
2. an invitation to present their thesis at the annual international EFNIL conference (all expenses paid)
3. the opportunity to publish an article based on their thesis in EFNIL’s annual conference proceedings
4. the opportunity to publish the full thesis on EFNIL’s website www.efnil.org.
Next submission deadline is 15 January 2023.
Other Projects
Press release
Nastja Slavec (University of Ljubljana)
Supervisor: Prof. Bojan Baskar & Prof. Steve Coleman
Title: ‘To have’ Irish in Corca Dhuibhne: Language ideologies and practices in a minority language community.
Thesis Article Presentation
Magdalena Pawlik (University of Warsaw)
Supervisor: Dr. hab. Lucja Biel
Title: The Art of Amendment: A Genre Analysis of Amendments Tabled by Members of the European Parliament in the Ordinary Legislative Procedure.
Thesis Article Presentation
Kristina Babic (Universität Wien)
Supervisor: Prof. Inci Dirim
Title: Phonetic interference in second language acquisition of German. A study of phenomena of interference of Arabic-, Kurdish-, Romanian- and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian-speaking learners of German as a second language.
Thesis Article Presentation
Agnes Kim (Universitat Wien)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Alexandra N. Lenz
Title: Sprache und Gesellschaft im Wandel. Eine historisch-soziolinguistische Untersuchung am Beispiel des Marchfelds (Niederösterreich) im frühen 20. Jahrhundert
Language and Society in Change. A Historical-Sociolinguistic Investigation Using the Example of the Marchfeld (Lower Austria) in the Early 20th Century
Pia Nilsson (Göteborgs Universitet)
Supervisor: Dr. Ingemar Bohlin
Title: SPRÅK PÅ MUSEUM. En undersökning av allmänhetens och språkexperters syn på ett svenskt språkmuseum
LANGUAGE IN THE MUSEUM. An investigation of the views held by the public and by language experts on a Swedish language museum
Jury statement | Presentation (slides) | Thesis
Anne-Mieke Thieme (Leiden University)
Supervisor: Em. Prof. Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
Title: Multilingual The Hague: Municipal language policy, politics, and practice
Riccardo Bravi (Università di Bologna)
Supervisor: Prof.ssa Cristiana Cervini
Title: Deutsche Bundesbank e Banca d’Italia. La conoscenza enciclopedica condivisa in una comunità socioprofessionale di parlanti
Presentation (slides) | Thesis
Chiara Ceppi (Université de Lausanne)
Supervisor: Dr. Maria Rosa Garrido Sardà
Title: The Face and Voice of SBB CFF FFS: A Sociolinguistic Study of Multilingualism for the Branding of a Swiss Institution
Presentation (slides) | Thesis
Åse Wetås (The Language Council of Norway)
Ari Páll Kristinsson (The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies)