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Esteemed colleagues and peers,<br>
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Roll up, roll up, and join me for a jolly old talk what I'll be
giving at Cardiff University not one month from this day.<br>
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It's part of the Cardiff Language and Communication Seminar Series,
organised by a good buddy and co-author of mine, Frances Rock. (Who
said nepotism is dead? It's who you know, not what you know!) The
talk will be at 4.30pm on 4th October 2011, in Room 5.18 of the
Humanities Building, Colum Drive, CF10 3EU: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://goo.gl/YGJqN">http://goo.gl/YGJqN</a>.
(Arrange parking in advance via Frances: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rockf@cardiff.ac.uk">rockf@cardiff.ac.uk</a>.)<br>
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Here's the abstract, a tantalising taster of my talk which I've
spent literally some time chiselling to perfection:<br>
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The Welsh Government’s plan to ‘create a bilingual Wales’ is
ambitious – aiming for significant increases in Welsh use across
Wales, a country with no Welsh monolinguals, and including areas
where everyday use of Welsh has become negligible. This paper uses a
form of discourse analysis to examine ideological orientations in
three Welsh language policy documents. These orientations are
categorised using De Schutter’s (2007) tripartite framework of
language ideologies: ‘instrumental’ (language is a means to achieve
other non-linguistic human capabilities); ‘constitutive’ (language
influences identity); and ‘intrinsic’ (language is valuable
irrespective of human interests). The findings show that the
intrinsic ideology predominates. Action is planned not in the
interests of human capabilities or identity, but of the Welsh
language as an independent entity. Furthermore, possible
discriminatory effects on non-speakers of Welsh are justified as
acceptable collateral. These ideological orientations make Welsh
language policy quite unusual compared to other areas of social
policy.<br>
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<span>-- De Schutter, H. 2007. Language policy and political
philosophy: On the emerging linguistic justice debate. Language
Problems and Language Planning 31(1): 1–23.</span><br>
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If that doesn't have you beating a path to Cardiff, then I don't
know what will. Ah, I know, I'll bring sweets along. I might even
share them round.<br>
<br>
For those unfortunate enough to miss this fine event, afterwards
I'll be hoisting a Powerpoint file up on to my academia.edu page,
which you can peruse at your leisure:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://swansea.academia.edu/DaveSayers/Talks">http://swansea.academia.edu/DaveSayers/Talks</a><br>
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In the meantime, slides from my previous adventures (and
misadventures) in self-publicity are also available there. That
should keep you enthralled until October!<br>
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Hopefully see as many of you there as possible.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Dave<br>
<br>
<br>
-- <br>
Dr. Dave Sayers<br>
Honorary Research Fellow<br>
College of Arts & Humanities<br>
and Language Research Centre<br>
Swansea University<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dave.sayers@cantab.net">dave.sayers@cantab.net</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://swansea.academia.edu/DaveSayers">http://swansea.academia.edu/DaveSayers</a><br>
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