28.4874, Summer Schools: MultiLing Winter School 2018: Language policy in multilingual contexts – methodological approaches/Norway

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Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 18:53:13
From: Malene Boyum [malene.boyum at iln.uio.no]
Subject: MultiLing Winter School 2018: Language policy in multilingual contexts – methodological approaches/Norway

 

MultiLing Winter School 2018: Language policy in multilingual contexts – methodological approaches

Host Institution: University of Oslo
Website: http://www.hf.uio.no/multiling/english/news-and-events/events/phd-seminars/2018/multiling-winter-school-2018/index.html

Dates: 05-Feb-2018 - 09-Feb-2018
Location: Oslo, Norway

Focus: The goal of the Winter School is to introduce and evaluate key qualitative methods and introduce and discuss central concepts in the field of language policy, with a particular emphasis on studies in multilingual settings.
Minimum Education Level: MA


Special Qualifications:
The participants must be enrolled in a PhD program in linguistics or a related field of study.


Description:
Language policy and planning (LPP) as a discipline was initially developed as
a part of sociolinguistics and language-in-society studies and emerged as a
field of study in the 1960s (Kaplan, Baldauf, Liddicoat, Bryant, Barbaux, and
Pütz 2000). Wright (2004) outlines how LPP after WWII, as a result of
decolonisation, moved from being primarily an integral part of nation building
to a subject of academic enquiry. The structuralist era after WWII laid the
foundations of what was to characterise LPP until the critical turn in the
social sciences and humanities in the 1970s. Language was seen as a static and
delimited entity, an object which could be captured, codified and thus
standardised.  Key concepts in linguistics such as mother tongue, speech
community, native speaker, linguistic competence and even the term language
itself was questioned compelling researchers to take on a critical approach to
language policy, underscoring issues of power, identity and highlighting that
language policies, though influencing practice, are also deeply embedded in
practice (Lane 2014, Hult 2017).  
Language policy may be implicit in the language practices of a community, or
compelled by the ideology of a society, or specifically mandated in the
activities of an authorized language management agency King and Shohamy 2002;
Spolsky 2009; Barakos, E., & Unger 2016) . Language policy may take place on
many different levels - both formally through policy making and informally,
though language socialisation and practices.  Language policy may be seen as
an evolving phenomenon shaped and reshaped by discursive practices, which in
turn are embedded in the multiple contextual and semiotic resources available
in specific social activities and environments (Blommaert et al. 2010). Thus,
there is interplay between formal and informal aspects of language policy;
social actors are influenced by language policies, which in turn are shaped
and challenged by social actors.

In recent research on language policy, an increasing number of researchers use
ethnographic and discourse-analytic methods to examine language policy
processes as practices, with a focus on how policy texts, ideologies and
discourses relate to language practices in schools, families, communities and
private businesses (McCarty 2011; Smith-Christmas 2016; Gonçalves and Schluter
2016; King and Lanza 2017). In order to do this, researchers draw on methods
from a range of fields (Hult and Johnson 2015), and therefore, the goal of the
Winter School is to introduce and evaluate key qualitative methods and
introduce and discuss central concepts in the field of language policy, with a
particular emphasis on studies in multilingual settings.


Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Tuition: 0 USD

Tuition Explanation: There is no course fee, but participants will have to cover their own travel
and accommodation expenses.


Registration: 15-Nov-2017 to 15-Dec-2017

Contact Person: Malene Boyum
                Email: malene.boyum at iln.uio.no

Apply on the web: https://skjema.uio.no/90153

Registration Instructions:
To apply for the summer school, please use the online application form. All
applicants are kindly asked to submit (together with their application) a
250-word description of the data and method(s) that they would like to present
for discussion during the course. The students will be asked to give a short
presentation introducing a methodological challenge they have encountered and
discussing it in the light of relevant publications on the  reading list for
the course.




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