<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="color:#1f497d"><a href="mailto:lpp@ucalgary.ca" target="_blank"></a></span><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-CA"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">This message is being sent on behalf of Dr. Tom Ricento (<a href="mailto:tricento@ucalgary.ca" target="_blank">tricento@ucalgary.ca</a>)<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">____________________________________________________________<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">March 15, 2015<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Dear Colleagues,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> I have recently published two books, one with Oxford University Press and one with Springer that might be of interest to those of you who are on this LP listserve. The OUP book (T. Ricento (ed.)) is <i>Language Policy and Political Economy: English in a Global Context</i>. Below are the dust jacket blurbs; if you click on the link below, you can see the description and TOC. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">For those of you attending AAAL and/or TESOL in Toronto later this week and next week, you can purchase (or order) the book with a 30% discount at the Oxford exhibit.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Here is a link to the book at <a href="http://amazon.com" target="_blank">amazon.com</a>:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Language-Policy-Political-Economy-English/dp/0199363390/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1426474156&sr=1-1&keywords=ricento" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Language-Policy-Political-Economy-English/dp/0199363390/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1426474156&sr=1-1&keywords=ricento</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“Tom Ricento and the stellar cast of scholars he has assembled in this book achieve something extraordinary: they construct a story that people will still have to read decades later, on an object characterized paradoxically by extremely rapid and radical change. It is an intellectual and academic tour de force which focuses on mechanisms and structures rather than on phenomena and anecdotes, and so easily transcends the level of here-and-now documentation.”</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">—JAN BLOMMAERT, Tilburg University<b><u></u><u></u></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“In an era where language change and loss is often explained by reference to inevitable forces of ‘culture’ and ‘globalization,’ this important book brings us back home to core questions of economic power and political control.”</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">—ALLAN LUKE, Queensland University of Technology<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">“Language Policy and Political Economy is both timely and important, engaging with the debates that are central to current language policy research. I don’t think anyone will be able to write about ‘global English’ again without seriously engaging with the analyses in this book.”</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">—JAMES TOLLEFSON, The University of Hong Kong<b><u></u><u></u></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Also, just published is <i>Language Policy and Political Theory: Building Bridges, Assessing Breaches</i> (Thomas Ricento, Yael Peled, Peter Ives (eds.)), Springer.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Here is the link to the book on <a href="http://amazon.com" target="_blank">amazon.com</a>:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Language-Policy-Political-Theory-Assessing/dp/3319150839/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1426474564&sr=1-2&keywords=ricento" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Language-Policy-Political-Theory-Assessing/dp/3319150839/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1426474564&sr=1-2&keywords=ricento</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Here is a brief description of the contents:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#262626">Contemporary debates on immigration, multiculturalism, nationalism, and linguistic rights often find language policy scholars and political philosophers at odds. This book aims to assess the obstacles and build bridges between scholars of language policy and political theory with chapters by Stephen May, Ronald Schmidt, Jr., Daniel Weinstock, Thomas Ricento, Yael Peled and Peter Ives. Along with an introduction by the editors, the chapters map out the contours of the debates and potential contributions that political theory can make to language policy and vice-versa. The book offers an appraisal of current research, areas of contestation and a framework for future interdisciplinary inquiry on the complex interface between language, power and ethics. This collection will be useful for scholars from diverse disciplinary perspectives with interests in contemporary societal debates in which language plays an important—even central—role.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">This book will also be on sale at AAAL and TESOL at the Springer table.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Regards,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Tom Ricento<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Professor and Research Chair, English as an Additional Language<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:tricento@ucalgary.ca" target="_blank">tricento@ucalgary.ca</a><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div>
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