Brigitta Busch

Brigitta Busch is an applied linguist. She works and teaches at Vienna University and is also affiliated to Stellenbosch University (South Africa). In 2009 she was granted a Berta-Karlik research professorship for excellent female scientists by th University of Vienna. She has also been working for many years as an expert for the Council of Europe's Confidence-Building Measures Programme and was a member of the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. Her main interests focus on: sociolinguistics, multilingualism, biographic approaches in linguistics (http: //www.heteroglossia.net)