<div dir="ltr">Good morning,<div><br></div><div>We would like to post about a new Summer School we are preparing for this coming July 31th to August 4th at University of Costa Rica.</div><div>Do let me know if there is something else you will need to post/spread this Summer School.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://inil.ucr.ac.cr/lplpe17-en/">http://inil.ucr.ac.cr/lplpe17-en/</a> <br></div><div><br></div><div>This is the general information:</div><div><br></div><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-5dd0d283-3462-fd9f-d734-2620af08137c"><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Summer School on Linguistic Policy, Linguistic Planning and Evaluation </span></h1><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">LPLPE17</span></h1><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">General description</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Presentation </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Latin America is a multicultural and multilingual region, of which Costa Rica does not escape; hence addressing issues of policy and language planning is fundamental, particularly if we consider that the traditional view tends to hide other cultures and languages that make up the identity of a country.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Given the above, it is crucial to have a space in which it is possible to share experiences, where the problems, both national and international, that are exposed, allow us to analyze the situation and postulate solutions from the point of view of the diversity.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The area of linguistic policy and language planning is an interdisciplinary field of research in growth. There is increasing awareness of the importance of language policy and language planning in education, public service administration and in economic circles.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Language policy can influence student outcomes in the labor market, citizen participation in democratic decision-making processes and the ability of companies to compete. Therefore, it is a field of study that requires contributions from various specialties.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Although linguistic planning has traditionally been part of sociolinguistics, it now tends to become an interdisciplinary area in which specialists from sociolinguistics, political science, economics and philosophy converge; therefore we propose an international Summer School on this subject, which would be the first one to be held in Latin America.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Institute of Linguistic Research (INIL) of the University of Costa Rica, in collaboration with the Esperantic Studies Foundation (ESF) (</span><a href="http://www.esperantic.org/en/home/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://www.esperantic.org/en/home/</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">), invites to the </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Summer School on Linguistic Policy, Linguistic Planning and Evaluation (PLPLE)</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, which aims to open an international space for discussion on Linguistic Policy and Linguistic Planning.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Summer School will consist of the description and analysis of the fundamental concepts of Linguistic Policy, Linguistic Planning and Linguistic Policy Evaluation, as well as its objectives and methods. During the four sessions of the Summer School, the exponents will refer to specific cases that they have investigated. Of the four sessions, three of them will be held in English and one in Spanish. At the same time, there will be a series of lectures related to the Summer School topics.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Summer School will last a week, with 20 hours, in a total of 4 days (except on August the 2nd, which is a holiday). Each invited speaker will give a four-hour workshop. We are considering the possibility that postgraduate students of the University of Costa Rica receive a credit for their attendance*.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">General objective:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Summer School aims to attract postgraduate students from several countries and to offer them state-of-the-art training to study the theoretical, methodological and practical foundations of Linguistic Policy, Linguistic Planning and Linguistic Policy Evaluation. It will also be a space for meeting, communication, collaboration and exchange of ideas between researchers working in linguistic policy, language planning and evaluation.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Specific objectives:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Analyzing and discuss the national and international linguistic situation from the point of view of Linguistic Justice and Linguistic Planning.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Explaining the proposed solutions to situations of injustice and linguistic imbalance, at both national and international level.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Preparing the professionals to understand the requirements of multilingual societies, with special emphasis on Costa Rican situation.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Systematizing, for dissemination purposes, the analysis and discussion of activities in favor of the strengthening of linguistic rights.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Improving the effectiveness and the efficiency of language policies.</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Summer School will consist of four parts:</span></p><ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:12pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Overview of LPP (Language Policy and Planning). History, objectives and outputs of LPP.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> It will be presented by Dr. David Cassels Johnson, University of Iowa: “Language Policy and Planning: Theory, Method, and Findings.”</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:12pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Evaluation of language policies. This part is necessary to identify the effectiveness of LPP and thus measure it in various fields of social and economic life. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">It will be presented by Dr. Michele Gazzola, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: “Evaluation in Language Policy and Planning (LPP).”</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:12pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Interlinguistic. The study of planned languages ​​is also part of LPP and is an adequate contribution to the Summer School.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Interlinguistics also studies the human relationships that take place through planned languages. This is a subject that is necessarily related to the inequality between languages, that is to say, Linguistic Justice. It will be presented by Dr. Federico Gobbo, University of Amsterdam: “Interlinguistics as extreme language planning: categories and cases.”</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:12pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Problems of planning in languages ​​in process of displacement. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">It will be presented by Dr. Carlos Sánchez Avendaño, University of Costa Rica: “Problems of planning in languages ​​in process of displacement.”</span></p></li></ol><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Invited speakers’ profile:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dr. David Cassels Jonhson (</span><a href="https://education.uiowa.edu/person/david-cassels-johnson" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://education.uiowa.edu/person/david-cassels-johnson</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">), University of Iowa, US. Associate Professor of LPP, publisher of the book </span><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Research Methods in Language Policy and Planning: A Practical Guide</span><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, with Hult, F., 2015: Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, and author of </span><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Language Policy</span><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, 2013, Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan .</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dr. Michele Gazzola (</span><a href="http://www.michelegazzola.com/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">www.michelegazzola.com</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany), University of Lugano (Switzerland), and Institute for Ethnic Studies in Ljubljana (Slovenia), researcher on language economics and language policy evaluation. Editor of the book </span><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Economics of Language Policy</span><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, with B.-A. Wickström, 2016, Cambridge (MA): MIT Press, and author of </span><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Evaluation of Language Regimes</span><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, 2014, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dr. Federico Gobbo (</span><a href="http://federicogobbo.name/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://federicogobbo.name</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">), University of Amsterdam, Netherlands and University of Turin, Italy. Professor of Interlinguistics and Esperantology, author of the book </span><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Constructive Adpositional Grammars: Foundations of Constructive Linguistics</span><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, 2011, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, and the article “Are planned languages less complex than natural languages?” In Language Sciences, 2016.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dr. Carlos Sánchez Avendaño (</span><a href="http://163.178.170.46/filologia/flweb/sites/default/files/cvs/lin15.pdf" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://filologia.ucr.ac.cr/sites/default/files/cvs/lin15.pdf</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">), University of Costa Rica. Full professor of Linguistics and specialist in Linguistic Revitalization. Author of the book </span><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">La cola de la iguana: El pueblo Malecu ante el desplazamiento de su lengua y su cultura tradicional</span><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, 2015, Costa Rica: Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica, and the article “Reconstitución léxica y variabilidad morfoléxica de una lengua muy desplazada: El caso del vocabulario del cuerpo humano en la lengua de brorán (térraba)”, in </span><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Estudios de Lingüística Chibcha</span><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, 2015.</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The working languages will be English and Spanish. The proceedings will appear in the magazine </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Káñina</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, Revista de Artes y Letras de la Universidad de Costa Rica (</span><a href="http://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/kanina" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/kanina</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">).</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Special guest:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dra. Marielos Murillo Rojas (Universidad de Costa Rica): “Linguistic Planification in  Basic General Education”.</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Descriptors:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Policy analysis</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Evaluation</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Language management</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Language</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Interlinguistics</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Language and Culture</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Linguistics</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Applied Linguistics</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Multilingualism</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Planning</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Language planning</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Language policy</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sociolinguistics</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Participants:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This Summer School is meant for:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Researchers</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Specialists</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">University students</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Professionals in Language Policy</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Professional in Linguistic Planning</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Professionals in Linguistic Justice</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Professionals in Linguistic Law</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ORGANIZERS:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Coordinators:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dr. Jorge Antonio Leoni de León</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dr. Michele Gazzola</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Assistant:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Bach. Yislén Barboza Hidalgo</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Collaborative researchers:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">M.Sc. Hugo Mora Poltronieri</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">M.L. Erica Vargas Castro</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Lcda. Daniela Sánchez Sánchez</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This Summer School is registered in the University of Costa Rica in the Vicerrectoría de Investigación, code 745-B7727 and in the Vicerrectoría de Acción Social, code ED-3256, and it has the support of the Institute of Linguistic Research (INIL), the Vicerrectoría de Investigación (</span><a href="http://www.vinv.ucr.ac.cr/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://www.vinv.ucr.ac.cr/</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">), the Posgrado de Lingüística (</span><a href="http://www.linguistica.ucr.ac.cr/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://www.linguistica.ucr.ac.cr/</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">), the Sistema de Estudios de Posgrado (SEP) (</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="http://www.sep.ucr">http://www.sep.ucr</a> .<a href="http://ac.cr/">ac.cr/</a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) and the Esperantic Studies Foundation (ESF)</span><a href="http://www.esperantic.org/en/home/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://www.esperantic.org/en/home/</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">).</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">INFORMATION ABOUT THIS SUMMER SCHOOL</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dates:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">From July the 31st to August the 4th, 2017</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Duration:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">4 days, for a 20 hour total</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Type of certificate given:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Participation or attendance, depending on each case*.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Deadline for registration:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margi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om</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span></p><br></span><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Yislén Barboza Hidalgo<div><i>Filóloga y traductora</i></div></div></div></div>
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