Solvita Burr

Acting Instructor of Latvian

Photo of Solvita Poseiko

Contact Information

solvitap@uw.edu

RAI 305 W

Fields of Interest

Applied Linguistics Baltic Studies East European Language Pedagogy Latvian Linguistic Landscape Studies Second Language Acquisition Urban Studies Visual Culture

Biography

Ph.D., Applied Linguistics, University of Latvia, 2015

M.A. Language Pedagogy, Rēzekne Academy of Technologies, 2009

Research

Selected Research

Burr, S. (2023). Learning a foreign language and locality through an animated documentary film. Language Learning & Technology, 27(2), 199–225. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/73509 Download PDF
Burr, S., Griķe, A.E., Krieviņa, K. (2022). Look at the graves!: Cemeteries as Guided Tourism Destinations in Latvia. In: Tara Thomson, Anne Schwan (Eds.). The Palgrave Handbook on Digital and Public Humanities, 459-477
Pošeiko, S. (2018). Glocal Names in the Linguistic Landscape of the Baltic States. In: Multilingualism in the Baltic States: Social Discourses and Contact Phenomena (eds., S.Lazdiņa, H.F. Marten). Palgrave macmillan. pp. 369 - 405.
Pošeiko, S. (2018). “Following footsteps of names”: Commercial Ergonymia in Linguistic Landscape of the Baltic Countries. In: Cotticelli Kurras, P., Alfredo Rizza, A. (eds., 2018). Language, Media and Economy in Virtual and Real Life. New perspectives. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 99–122.
Pošeiko, S. (2018). The Linguistic Landscape as a Tool for Mastering and Improving Pragmatic Competence. In: Laiveniece, D. (ed.). Problems of and Perspectives on Language Acquisition. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 254–265.
Pošeiko, S. (2016). Images of Women in the Semiotic Landscape of the Baltic states. Miscellanea Anthropologica et Sociologica. Rethinking genders, rethinking migration. Vol.17. No 3. pp. 111–128.
Pošeiko, S. (2015). The Latvian language in the Linguistic Landscape of Daugavpils (The middle of the 19th century – nowadays). Journal of Education, Culture and Society 2. pp. 320–336.
Pošeiko, Solvita (2015). Valodas un to funkcionalitāte publiskajā telpā: lingvistiskā ainava Baltijas valstīs.// Language and its functionality in the urban public space: Linguistic landscape of the Baltic states. Riga: LU. https://dspace.lu.lv/dspace/handle/7/31349
Marten, H.F., Lazdiņa, S., Pošeiko, S., Murinska, S. (2012). Between Old and New Killer Languages? Linguistic Transformation, Lingua Francas and Languages of Tourism in the Baltic States. In: C. Hélot, M. Barni, R. Janssens & C. Bagna (eds.) Linguistic Landscapes, Multilingualism and Social Change . Peter Lang, pp. 289–309.

Courses Taught

Winter 2024

Autumn 2023

LATV 111 A: Basic Latvian

Spring 2023

Winter 2023

Spring 2022

Winter 2022

Autumn 2021

Spring 2021

Winter 2021

Additional Courses

LATV101 First year Latvian 1 (5 credits)

LATV111 First year Latvian 1 (3 credits)

https://scandinavian.washington.edu/courses/2018/autumn/latv/101/a

Related News

Related News

Baltic Program Holiday Letter (November 28, 2022)
Solvita Burr publishes new book Ceļvedis pilsētu tekstu izpētē (A Guide to Exploring City Texts) (January 24, 2021)
Letter from the Chair (October 17, 2018)
Passion for Language (October 16, 2018)

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