Elizabeth Lanza
MIC External Board
Elizabeth Lanza is Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, and Director of the Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan/ MultiLing, University of Oslo, Norway. Her main research interests cover bilingualism/multilingualism. She has also worked collaboratively on multilingualism in Ethiopia with Hirut Woldemariam, Addis Ababa University. Lanza has published on language ideology, linguistic landscape, language policy, identity in migrant narratives, the language socialization of bilingual/multilingual children, and research methodology. She is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Bilingualism and Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. She is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.