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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">*Apologies for cross-postings*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Dear colleagues,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Please find below a CfP for the Language Policy Forum 2023, hosted at SOAS University of London, in cooperation with the BAAL Language Policy SIG.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Elisabeth
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#2F5496;font-weight:normal">Language Policy Forum 2023<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size:13.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;color:#2F5496;font-weight:normal">SOAS, University of London (with hybrid options)<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%"><u>Conference theme: Decolonising Language Policy</u><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%"><span lang="EN-GB">Thursday 15<sup>th</sup> and Friday June 16<sup>th</sup>, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eWJjc9jBSez8WjJqvRQOctTFR4dvMqxq/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=102344427273788673696&rtpof=true&sd=true">Link to Call</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%">Plenary speakers:<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%">Professor Justyna Olko, Faculty of Artes Liberales, University of Warsaw (Poland)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%">Dr Hannah Gibson, University of Essex, UK
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%">Language policy at the national macro level is generally based on ‘One nation – one language’ ideologies that were promulgated and reinforced in Europe during the periods of ‘Enlightenment’ (mainly
18<sup>th</sup> century) and Empires (19th century and onwards). Colonial languages were promoted as part of a ‘civilisation narrative’ (Tricoire 2017) and linguistic hegemonies became entrenched.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%">Colonial and newly independent nation-state boundaries were drawn along arbitrary lines, ignoring ethnolinguistic practices at grassroots level. Despite most countries of the globe being multi-ethnic
and multilingual, colonial and monolingual models of language policy were reproduced, as well as ideologies such as the myth of ‘multilingualism = divisiveness’ (Bamgboṣe 2011). Inevitably in such a model, language issues become political issues, with implications
for linguistic human rights, especially when minorities are repressed in the name of national unity.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%">The idea of language can be used by policy makers and everyday people to foster the identity of a state, nation or ethnic group, and may become (or be appropriated as) a symbol of nationhood
/ freedom/ independence / identity/ autonomy. When vernacular or Indigenous languages are promoted, it is often according to a colonialist model: standardisation, elevation of literate norms, devalorisation of variability (Schieffelin et al. 1998).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%">Moreover, in Linguistics, the notion of ‘language’ as a bounded system also developed during these periods, leading to the identification and description of ‘languages’ in colonised countries
that reflected these ideologies. The classification and naming of ‘languages’ reflected arbitrary locations of colonial or missionary bases, more than existing multilingual practices (e.g. Mühlhäusler 1996; Makoni and Pennycook 2006). Linguistic descriptions
were predicated on theoretical models extrapolated from Indo-European languages. More recently, documentary linguists have sought to identify ‘pre-contact’ ‘ancestral codes’ (Childs et al. 2014) that may again reflect received notions of bounded languages
and ‘authenticity’, rather than linguistic ecosystems and multilingual or translanguaging practices.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%">The conference organisers take a broad interpretation of language policy, based on the latest directions within language policy research. Papers are invited that examine language policies, practices
and ideologies at all levels: international, national, regional, societal, institutional, group, locality, family, individual. Examples might include, among others:<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>The impact of colonial thinking on language policies at all levels of society<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Evaluating examples of language policy<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Alternative frameworks for language policies<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Language practices, management and beliefs <o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Language ideologies and attitudes<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Practised language policy and language policing<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>Issues with implementation of language policies<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span>The impact of colonial thinking on the field of Linguistics, language documentation, etc.
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</span>Colonisation of research: methods, writing, ethics etc.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%">We also invite proposals for panel discussions on these and related topics.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Please send anonymised abstracts of 200 words to
</span><a href="mailto:lpf2023@soas.ac.uk"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#0563C1">lpf2023@soas.ac.uk</span></a><span lang="EN-GB"> by 25<sup>th</sup> March 2023.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%"><span lang="EN-GB">You will be informed of the outcome by 15<sup>th</sup> April.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%">Any queries can also be sent to this email address.
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