The German Biography Portal “Deutsche Biographie” is a joint effort of the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Bavarian State Library and supported by cultural heritage institutions to develop a historical and biographical information system for the German-speaking world. It includes digital full texts of more than 48.000 articles about persons and f...

This paper demonstrates the contribution a synthetic narrativediscursive approach can make to understanding biographical work within a research interview. Our focus is on biographical work as part of the ongoing, interactive process through which identities are taken up. This is of particular interest for people who, for example, are entering a new career and can be seen as “novices” in the sen...

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Abstract Black athletes have had to express a double consciousness of being American and Black. By exploring the biographies pioneering tennis figures—Althea Gibson, Arthur Ashe, Williams sisters—Venus Serena—one can look at their encounters with racism quests for self-respect explore social implications race in USA. To understand its complications on world which black players navigate, we broa...

Abstract This paper describes the individual experiences with migration-related multilingualism of young refugees from Syria, Iran, and Afghanistan living in Germany. Young are a social group particular linguistic interest because their late L2 learning takes place limited family background maintenance heritage language culture. These interview excerpts connected to current dissertation project...