FW: From the Center for Multiple Languages and Literacies
Theo du Plessis
dplesslt.HUM at mail.uovs.ac.za
Fri Oct 7 08:52:47 UTC 2005
A pity the series is organised on the Sabbath.
Shalom!
Theo du Plessis
>>> haroldfs at ccat.sas.upenn.edu 2005/09/27 10:42:15 PM >>>
From: Baldwin, William J.
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 7:14 PM
To: TC Community
Subject: From the Center for Multiple Languages and Literacies
From: Kleifgen, JoAnne
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 6:03 PM
To: Baldwin, William J.
Subject: From the Center for Multiple Languages and Literacies
All are cordially invited to the first in our Saturday Series for the
fall semester. The theme this fall is "Linguistic Human Rights."
Our speaker is Professor Robert Phillipson of the Copenhagen Business
School, Denmark. He will speak this Saturday, October 1 at 11:00 am on
"Language Rights in a Neo-imperial World: English for Uniting or
Dividing?"
Sincerely,
Jo Anne Kleifgen and Ofelia Garcia
Center for Multiple Languages and Literacies
http://www.tc.columbia.edu/centers/cmll/cmll_files/welcome.htm
Center for MULTIPLE LANGUAGES and LITERACIES
Co-Sponsored by the International Linguistic Association
The Saturday Lecture Series on
Linguistic Human Rights
Professor
Robert Phillipson
Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Language rights in a
neo-imperial world:
English for uniting or dividing?
Language policy is acquiring increasing importance in an age of
intensive political and cultural change due to globalisation and
European integration. The human rights system that has evolved
since 1945 is essentially concerned with speakers of oppressed
languages. But are the languages of continental Europe now
threatened by the advance of English in a range of key domains,
commerce, finance, research and higher education, the media,
and popular culture? Is there a human rights issue? The
requirement of competence in English for higher education and
for employment is leading some countries to aim at 'parallel
competence' in Danish/Swedish/... and English, which is seen as
preferable to diglossia. English is being marketed as a lingua
franca, in Europe and worldwide, but is it rather a corporatedriven
Frankenstein even threatening well-established
languages? The challenge for language policies is to promote
multilingual competencies with additive English and critically
aware citizens. How can language rights in the neo-imperial
world order address such issues?
Saturday, October 1, 2005, 11 am
Teachers College,
Columbia University
281 Grace Dodge Hall
http://www.tc.edu/centers/cmll
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