Dr. Jonas Hassemer, BA MA
Dr. Jonas Hassemer, BA MA
Office: O6.02
T: +43 1 4277 41714
jonas.hassemer@univie.ac.at
Member of the Language & Work Group
Co-editor of the Wiener Linguistischen Gazette (WLG)
Research Interests: Sociolinguistics, critical multilingualism research, language and work/labour, language and inequality, ideologies of language/communication, subjectivity and subjectivation, ethnography, institutions and organisations, migration and displacement
Publications
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Publications
Hassemer, Jonas. 2026. Inside Refugee Support Work: An Ethnography of Language, Labour and Subjectivity. Bristol: Channel View Publications Ltd/Multilingual Matters.
Hassemer, Jonas & Brigitta Busch. 2025 [preprint]. Multilingual repertoires and socialization. Reference Collection in Social Sciences. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-323-95504-1.01038-3
Allan, Kori, Jillian Cavanaugh, Jonas Hassemer & Kamilla Kraft (2024). Labour. In Alfonso Del Percio & Mi-Cha Flubacher (eds.), Critical sociolinguistics: Dialogues, dissonances, developments, 215–235. London: Bloomsbury.
Hassemer, Jonas. 2021. (Meta-)Communicative labour in a counselling centre for refugees: Reiteration, erasure and agency. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 272. 75–99. DOI: 10.1515/ijsl-2020-0092 [Open access]
Hassemer, Jonas & Mi-Cha Flubacher. 2020. Prekäre Ethnographie: Zur Rolle von Prekaritätserfahrungen im ethnographischen Erkenntnisprozess. Wiener Linguistische Gazette 85. 157–182.
Hassemer, Jonas & Maria Rosa Garrido. 2020. Language as a resource with fluctuating values: Arabic speakers in humanitarian and social work. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 264. 137–161.
Hassemer, Jonas. 2020. The value(s) of volunteering: Asylum seekers’ trajectories through language work in refugee assistance. International Journal of Multilingualism 17(1). 46–61.
Hassemer, Jonas. 2018. »sie erkennen meinen akzent, und da geht_s dann los.«: Indexikalische Nebenfolgen von Kapitalisierung und (Nicht-)Registrierung sprachlicher Repertoires in der Beratung von Geflüchteten. In Kersten S. Roth, Karen Schramm & Jürgen Spitzmüller (eds.), Phänomen ›Mehrsprachigkeit‹: Einstellungen, Ideologien, Positionierungspraktiken, OBST 93, 127–147. Duisburg: UVRR.
Bellardi, Nadia, Brigitta Busch, Jonas Hassemer, Helmut Peissl & Salvatore Scifo. 2018. Spaces of Inclusion: An explorative study on needs of refugees and migrants in the domain of media communication and on responses by community media. CoE. https://rm.coe.int/dgi- 2018-01-spaces-of-inclusion/ 168078c4b4.
Hassemer, Jonas. 2017. Handlungsfähigkeit zwischen Autonomie und Distribuiertheit: Interaktionale »Selbstvertretung« als subjektivierende Norm? Wiener Linguistische Gazette 80. 47–80.
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from Oct. 2023: University assistant (postdoc) at the Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna, Austria
Juni 2023: Doctorate (Dr. phil.) in Linguistics
July 2021 - Sep. 2023: Research associate at the Department of Language, Media Studies and Musicology, Section of Intercultural Communication and Multilingualism Studies, University of Bonn, Germany
Nov. 2020 - Juni 2021: University assistant (predoc) at the Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna, Austria
Okt. 2017 - Sept. 2020: Uni:Docs-Fellow at the Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna, Austria
Mai 2017 - Dez. 2017: Project member of Spaces of Inclusion, a project for the Council of Europe, led by Prof. Dr. Brigitta Busch and Mag. Helmut Peissl, COMMIT (Community Medien Institut)
Nov. 2016 - März 2017: Project member in the pilot study 'Kommunikative Professionalisierung' in der Flüchtlingshilfe, led by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Spitzmüller and Prof. Dr. Brigitta Busch, funded by the Municipal Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of Vienna and the Austrian Chamber of Labour Vienna
2016-2023: Doctoral studies in Linguistics, University of Vienna, doctoral thesis entitled Languaged Work/ers. An Ethnography of Linguistic Labour and Professional Selves in Refugee Support Work, supervised by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Spitzmüller and Prof. Dr. Brigitta Busch
2012 - 2016: MA in Applied Linguistics, University of Vienna
2009 - 2012: BA in Linguistics, University of Vienna