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BRITISH ACADEMY ANNUAL
LECTURE </font></span><font
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size="2"><span class="style9"><strong><font
size="+2">Language
diversity, endangerment,
and public awareness</font></strong><br>
<br>
<strong><font size="3">Professor
David Crystal, OBE, FBA
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<strong>University of
Bangor </strong></font></strong></span><strong><br>
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<span class="style8"><strong><font
size="3">Wednesday, 23
February 2011</font></strong><font
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<strong>5.30pm - 6.30pm,
followed by a drinks
reception </strong><br>
<strong>The British
Academy, 10-11 Carlton
House Terrace, </strong><strong>London,
SW1Y 5AH</strong></font></span></strong><font
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<font color="#000066" face="Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Despite
a number of events in recent years
devoted to language diversity, language
endangerment, and multilingualism, such
as the International Year of Languages
in 2008, public awareness of the issues
is still remarkably limited. Only one in
four of the population know that half
the languages of the world are so
seriously endangered that they are
unlikely to survive the present century.
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This paper reflects on why the
ecolinguisic crisis has made so little
impact on public consciousness, despite
a great deal of effort by academic
authors. A renewed plea is made for the
greater involvement of the arts, in the
broadest sense, in getting the issues
across to the general public, and
especially to young people at home and
in school. Some progress has been made
over the past decade, especially in the
worlds of radio, television, and cinema,
but artists have generally ignored
global linguistic themes. <br>
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Three specific recommendations are made.
Artworks on the theme of language
diversity and endangerment need to be
regularly commissioned. A major award at
Nobel level needs to be instituted. And
countries need to build Houses of
Languages.</font></p>
<p><font color="#000066" face="Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><strong>About
the speaker</strong><br>
David Crystal is honorary professor of
linguistics at the University of Bangor.
Well known for his writing on a wide
range of subject-areas in language and
linguistics, the background to this
lecture is treated in <em>Language
Death</em> (Cambridge University
Press, 2001). He delivered keynote
speeches to the UNESCO International
Expert Meeting on Endangered Languages
in 2003, the Barcelona Linguapax Forum
in 2004, the Dialogue of Cultures
conference at Reykjavik in 2005, and a
UNESCOCat linguistic forum in 2007, and
the above lecture is a synthesis and
updating of their various elements.</font></p>
<p><font color="#000066" face="Arial,
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Academy Annual Lecture</strong><br>
The annual keynote British Academy
Lecture was established to mark the
Academy’s move to new headquarters in
Carlton House Terrace in 1998. The
lecture is intended to address a wide
audience and advance public
understanding of the subjects which the
Academy promotes. In general, the chosen
subject alternates between the
humanities and social sciences. </font></p>
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