<div dir="ltr">Dear all,<div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><br>We are pleased to announce the two upcoming talks of the Linguistic Justice Society webinar series. <br><br>On
May 29th, Nicole Marinaro (Ulster University) & Cecilia Gialdini
(University of Edinburgh) will present a paper titled "LINGUISTIC
JUSTICE IN HEALTHCARE: MACRO AND MICRO PERSPECTIVES". <br><br>On June
12th, Josep Soler Carbonell (Stockholm University) & Kerttu
Rozenvalde (University of Tartu) will present a paper titled "LINGUISTIC
DOMINATION OR DISCRIMINATION? LINGUISTIC JUSTICE IN INTERNATIONAL
ACADEMIC MOBILITY".<br><br>Please see below for details and registration links.<br><br>Yours,<br><br>The
LJS Webinar convenors: Yael Peled (Max Planck Institute for the Study
of Religious and Ethnic Diversity), Çağla Çimendereli (Syracuse
University), Sergi Morales-Gálvez (Universitat de València) &
Filippo Contesi (Universities of Milan and Barcelona)<br><br>---<br><br><b>"LINGUISTIC JUSTICE IN HEALTHCARE: MACRO AND MICRO PERSPECTIVES"</b><br>Nicole Marinaro (Ulster) & Cecilia Gialdini (Edinburgh)<br>Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 09:00 EDT // 15:00 CEST // 18:30 IST<br><br>Abstract
- Extensive medical research confirms the detrimental consequences of
communication issues in healthcare contexts, supporting the employment
of bilingual healthcare staff and/or the provision of professional
translation and interpreting services. This presentation addresses
linguistic justice in healthcare from a macro and micro point of view,
adopting perspectives pertaining to the realms of social policy and
sociolinguistics.<br><br>In social policy, linguistic justice is
conceptualised as a parameter to measure the fairness of language
policies. Cecilia presents an instrument to evaluate healthcare policies
to address the state's performance. Inspired by the capability
approach, access to healthcare is defined as a language-based capability
and assessed through a synthetic indicator that allows cross-country
comparison.<br><br>As regards the field of sociolinguistics, Nicole
discusses the application to the medical domain of the concept of
linguistic unease, “a situation in which speakers feel that their
pragmatic linguistic competence is not fitting the communicative
requirements of the linguistic act they are about to perform – or even
that the symbolic value of their speech acts is perceived as misplaced”
(Iannàccaro et al., 2018: 367). Examining the patterns of linguistic
unease from a subject-centred perspective can allow us to identify and
target issues related to sociolinguistic justice in relevant societies.<br><br>To conclude, we present potential recommendations and future research trajectories.<br><br>Iannàccaro,
G., Dell’Aquila, V. & Gobbo, F. (2018), The Assessment of
Sociolinguistic Justice: Parameters and Models of Analysis. In: Gazzola
M., Wickström, B.-A. & Templin, T. (eds.), Language Policy and
Linguistic Justice: Economic, Philosophical and Sociolinguistic
Approaches, 363-391. Berlin / New York: Springer.<br><br><i>Nicole
Marinaro is a PhD candidate at Ulster University. Her research focuses
on the management of communication towards minority language speakers in
the public healthcare sector, taking an interdisciplinary approach at
the crossroad between public policy and sociolinguistics.<br><br>Cecilia
Gialdini is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Edinburgh,
collaborating on the project “TEAMS-Teaching that Matters for Migrant
Students”, and a research associate at the Centre For Research and
Documentation on World Language Problems. Her work focuses on language
policies, intersectionality and social justice.<br></i><br>To receive the weblink for the talk, please fill out this form (if possible, using your institutional academic email address): <a href="https://forms.gle/QSNR2m3cyg2gp8fr5" target="_blank">https://forms.gle/QSNR2m3cyg2gp8fr5</a><br><br>---<br><br><b>"LINGUISTIC DOMINATION OR DISCRIMINATION? LINGUISTIC JUSTICE IN INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC MOBILITY"</b><br>Josep Soler Carbonell (Stockholm) & Kerttu Rozenvalde (Tartu)<br>Wednesday, 12 June 2024, 10:00 EDT // 16:00 CEST // 19:30 IST <br><br>Abstract
- In this presentation, we discuss some of the linguistic tensions
derived from international academic mobility in English-medium
instruction multilingual university contexts, focusing on local and
international academic staff’s interests from a linguistic justice
viewpoint. Firstly, we develop a normative argument to explore whether
international academic mobility and increased use of English can become a
source of linguistic domination for local staff, or if suggested
countermeasures, such as requiring international scholars to learn the
local language, might lead to linguistic discrimination against the
latter group. Secondly, via a qualitative analysis of survey data, we
ask local and international scholars at the University of Tartu about
their views on the language policy regime at the university. Protective
language policies that encourage locals to use Estonian more and require
internationals to learn some Estonian could help enhance linguistic
justice, according to local staff. However, international scholars may
perceive such requests as discriminatory. Linguistic domination and
discrimination play a key role in the clashing interests of
stakeholders, creating tension. The study highlights the complexity of
the dilemmas faced by many university officials today in their attempt
to balance institutional goals with on-the-ground realities. The
presentation is based on our recently published article on the topic,
which can be read in open access here: <a href="https://www-jbe-platform-com.ezp.sub.su.se/content/journals/10.1075/jemi.22016.sol#abstract_content" target="_blank">https://www-jbe-platform-com.ezp.sub.su.se/content/journals/10.1075/jemi.22016.sol#abstract_content</a><br><br><i>Josep
Soler is Professor of English Linguistics at the Department of English,
Stockholm University. His main research areas include: university
language policy, English-medium instruction, and linguistic justice. He
is the author of Language policy and the internationalization of
universities (Mouton, 2019), and "Linguistic injustice in academic
publishing in English: Limitations and ways forward in the debate"
(Journal of English for Research Publication Purposes, 2021).<br><br>Kerttu
Rozenvalde is Research Fellow in Language Policy at the Institute of
Estonian and General Linguistics, University of Tartu. Her main research
areas include language policies, language ideologies, and Estonian as
second language. She is currently conducting research on the language
policies implemented at the University of Tartu and the language
experiences of its academic staff and students.</i><br><br>To receive the weblink for the talk, please fill out this form (if possible, using your institutional academic email address): <a href="https://forms.gle/z6Bcmq98ZLR9eU9PA" target="_blank">https://forms.gle/z6Bcmq98ZLR9eU9PA</a><br><br>---<br><br>To catch up on previous talks in the series, please visit the LJS YouTube channel: <a href="http://youtube.com/@linguisticjusticesociety" target="_blank">http://youtube.com/@linguisticjusticesociety</a><br><br>For more details about, and to subscribe to, the LJS, please visit: <a href="https://hiw.kuleuven.be/ripple/research/linguisticjusticesociety" target="_blank">https://hiw.kuleuven.be/ripple/research/linguisticjusticesociety</a><br></div>
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