28.2147, Confs: Applied Linguistics/United Kingdom

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Subject: 28.2147, Confs: Applied Linguistics/United Kingdom

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Date: Mon, 08 May 2017 19:30:28
From: Lisa McEntee-Atalianis [ljatalianis at bbk.ac.uk]
Subject: Language Policy and Planning in Multilingual Organisations: Exploring Language Regimes

 
Language Policy and Planning in Multilingual Organisations: Exploring Language Regimes 

Date: 03-Jul-2017 - 03-Jul-2017 
Location: London, United Kingdom 
Contact: Madisson Brown 
Contact Email: m.brown at bbk.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: https://www2.bbk.ac.uk/bih/lppmo/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

Whilst there is still comparatively limited research on LPP in organisations,
studies on supranational organisations (e.g. the EU and UN) and public
administration of multilingual states (e.g. Canada, Switzerland, Belgium) have
shown that they experience great difficulties in implementing and sustaining
multilingual provision. This can lead to marked inefficiencies and inequities
for those functioning within organisations/administrations and/or those
affected externally by their work (Coray et al, 2015; Gazzola, 2016;
McEntee-Atalianis, 2015; Turgeon & Gagnon, 2015). Current language regimes in
some multilingual organisations no longer necessarily reflect the practices or
needs of individuals who work within them. Moreover, there is demand for
scientific data on ‘optimal’ language regimes for established and newly
emerging multilingual organisations. For further developments in the field of
LPP and for academics to be able to inform policy makers, concerted
interdisciplinary collaboration is needed – not least the combined efforts of
linguists, economists and political scientists.

This symposium will bring together some of the leading scholars in the field
of LPP who work across a range of disciplines (education; economics;
linguistics; politics) in order to discuss:

- The unique challenges faced by multilingual organisations working within
different sectors (e.g. business; diplomacy; economics) and the challenges
faced by researchers who work in these sites
- Methods to investigate and model language regimes
- The identification and the evaluation of the socio-economic and political
effects of alternative ways of managing multilingual communication adopted by
public administrations and organisations (e.g. political representativeness,
democratic participation, social exclusion)
- The current priorities for LPP research and its impact on policy makers
working in multilingual organisations.

Confirmed Speakers:
 
- Helder de Schutter (KU Leuven)
Presentation title: Does English polycentricity in the EU reduce linguistic
injustice?
- Jeremy Evas (School of Welsh, Cardiff University)
Presentation title: Automating Welsh Language Use? Increasing use of Minority
Languages on Electronic Platforms.
- Jan Fidrmuc (Brunel University)
Presentation title: Foreign Language Skills and Ideological Orientation
- Michele Gazzola & Torsten Templin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Presentation title: Quantitative Indicators for the Planning & Monitoring of
Language Policies in Multilingual Organisations.
- Federico Gobbo (University of Amsterdam/Torino)
Presentation title: Non-Governmental Organizations using Esperanto: which kind
of multilingualism?
- François Grin (University of Geneva)
Presentation title: The relevance of an economic perspective for the
evaluation of language regimes: are there any economics in Switzerland's
language policy at the federal level?
- Peter Kraus (University of Augsburg)
Presentation title: Ligatures, options, and power: towards a political
sociology of multilingualism in Europe
- Joseph Lacey (UCL & University of Oxford) 
Presentation title: Secession, Devolution, Integration: When Language Matters
- Leigh Oakes (Queen Mary, University of London)
Presentation title: The Organisation internationale de la Francophonie and the
question of pluricentric linguistic justice in the French-speaking world
- Sue Wright & Sarah Berthaud (University of Portsmouth)
Presentation title: Inclusion and exclusion in the European Parliament: the
linguistic dimension
 






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