[lg policy] Norway: Universitetet i Oslo: Workshop on Language Policy and Multilingualism

Mon Aug 20 15:26:21 UTC 2012

Universitetet i Oslo: Workshop on Language Policy and Multilingualism

Monday 09:00, August 20, 2012
09:00until18:30

Niels Treschows hus, Universitas Regia Fredericiana 0313 Oslo, Norway

Event Details

Some of the world's leading researchers in the field of language
policy and multilingualism will meet in Oslo in August 2012.

Language Policy has been a central field within sociolinguistics ever
since Einar Haugen did his ground-breaking research on language
contact in the Norwegian community in America in the early 1950s.

Studies in this field used to focus on corpus planning (linguistic
infrastructure) and status planning (the use and status of language).
Under the influence of structuralism researchers saw language as an
object which could be codified and standardised.

The field tended to be descriptive, but we are now witnessing an
increasing focus on systems of power, identity, and discussions of
whether standardisation transfers nation state ideologies to minority
languages. During the last decade migration and decolonialisation have
contributed to a growing interest in multulingualism.

The seminar will address these topics and also aim at identifying some
central future topics for research in the field of language policy and
multilingualism.

Research seminar for invited participants
Sunday August 19, 11.00-17.00

Venue: P. A. Munch's building, seminar room 5 (ground level). Street
address: Niels Henrik Abels vei 36, Blindern. Metro stop:
Forskningsparken. Tram stop: Universitetet Blindern.

International guests:

Francis M. Hult. Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at the
University of Texas at San Antonio. From August 2012: Associate
Professor, Lund University.
Alexandra Jaffe. Professor, Department of Linguistics at California
State University, Long Beach.
Kendall King. Professor of Second Languages and Cultures, College of
Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota.
Thomas Ricento. Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Calgary.
Natalie Schilling. Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics,
Georgetown University, Washington DC.
Elana Shohamy. Professor, School of Education, Tel Aviv University.

The Norwegian researchers present project outlines/ideas for research
projects to be discussed at seminar. Please send draft/summary to
Beate Trandem (beatet at ilos.uio.no) by August 1. Norwegian
participants:

University of Oslo: Elizabeth Lanza, Anne Golden, Bente Ailin
Svendsen, Unn Røyneland, Pia Lane and Ingjerd Hoëm.
University of Tromsø: Tove Bull, Anna-Riitta Lindgren, Hilde Sollid
and Mari Keränen.
(Uppsala University: Leena Huss)
Dinner in the evening (19.30): Nodee, Middelthunsgate 25, Oslo.

Day of open lectures
Monday August 20, 9.00-17.00 (18.30)

Registration is required, please write to Beate Trandem within August
16. Limited number of places.

Venue: Niels Treschow's building, 12th floor, seminar room 1224 (end
of corridor). Street address: Niels Henrik Abels vei 36, Blindern.
Metro stop: Forskningsparken. Tram stop: Universitetet Blindern.

Programme
>>From 09.00: Coffee

09.30-09.45: Welcome

09.45-10.45: Francis M. Hult (Lund University): Ecology of Language
and the 'New Wave' of LPP Research

10.45-11.45: Kendall King (University of Minnesota): Multilingualism,
language policy, and transnational families

11.45-12.30: Lunch

12.30-13.30: Thomas Ricento (University of Calgary): Multiculturalism
and the Monoglot Ideology: Incommensurate Worlds?

13.30-14.30: Alexandra Jaffe (California State University, Long
Beach): Language planning as mise-en-scène: structured improvisation,
linguistic personae and projected usage for a minority language

14.30-15.00: Coffee

15.00-16.00: Natalie Schilling (Georgetown University, Washington DC):
Language display as response to cultural (and linguistic)
endangerment: A case study from Smith Island, Maryland, USA

16.00-17.00: Elana Shohamy (Tel Aviv University): Assessment of
Multilingualism as Language Policy

17.00-18.30...: Tapas

Lectures will be given by invited participants only, and there is no
call for papers. Other participants will have to cover their own
expenses related to travel and accommodation, and we do not offer any
grants.

Organisers: Pia Lane, Elizabeth Lanza and Anne Golden.

The workshop has received funding from NFR BILAT, NFR FRIHUM and Kultrans

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Universitetet i Oslo: Workshop on Language Policy and Multilingualism

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Monday 09:00, August 20, 2012
09:00until18:30
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Niels Treschows hus, Universitas Regia Fredericiana 0313 Oslo, Norway
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Some of the world's leading researchers in the field of language
policy and multilingualism will meet in Oslo in August 2012.

Language Policy has been a central field within sociolinguistics ever
since Einar Haugen did his ground-breaking research on language
contact in the Norwegian community in America in the early 1950s.

Studies in this field used to focus on corpus planning (linguistic
infrastructure) and status planning (the use and status of language).
Under the influence of structuralism researchers saw language as an
object which could be codified and standardised.

The field tended to be descriptive, but we are now witnessing an
increasing focus on systems of power, identity, and discussions of
whether standardisation transfers nation state ideologies to minority
languages. During the last decade migration and decolonialisation have
contributed to a growing interest in multulingualism.

The seminar will address these topics and also aim at identifying some
central future topics for research in the field of language policy and
multilingualism.

Research seminar for invited participants
Sunday August 19, 11.00-17.00

Venue: P. A. Munch's building, seminar room 5 (ground level). Street
address: Niels Henrik Abels vei 36, Blindern. Metro stop:
Forskningsparken. Tram stop: Universitetet Blindern.

International guests:

Francis M. Hult. Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at the
University of Texas at San Antonio. From August 2012: Associate
Professor, Lund University.
Alexandra Jaffe. Professor, Department of Linguistics at California
State University, Long Beach.
Kendall King. Professor of Second Languages and Cultures, College of
Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota.
Thomas Ricento. Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Calgary.
Natalie Schilling. Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics,
Georgetown University, Washington DC.
Elana Shohamy. Professor, School of Education, Tel Aviv University.
The Norwegian researchers present project outlines/ideas for research
projects to be discussed at seminar. Please send draft/summary to
Beate Trandem (beatet at ilos.uio.no) by August 1. Norwegian
participants:

University of Oslo: Elizabeth Lanza, Anne Golden, Bente Ailin
Svendsen, Unn Røyneland, Pia Lane and Ingjerd Hoëm.
University of Tromsø: Tove Bull, Anna-Riitta Lindgren, Hilde Sollid
and Mari Keränen.
(Uppsala University: Leena Huss)
Dinner in the evening (19.30): Nodee, Middelthunsgate 25, Oslo.

Day of open lectures
Monday August 20, 9.00-17.00 (18.30)

Registration is required, please write to Beate Trandem within August
16. Limited number of places.

Venue: Niels Treschow's building, 12th floor, seminar room 1224 (end
of corridor). Street address: Niels Henrik Abels vei 36, Blindern.
Metro stop: Forskningsparken. Tram stop: Universitetet Blindern.

Programme
>>From 09.00: Coffee

09.30-09.45: Welcome

09.45-10.45: Francis M. Hult (Lund University): Ecology of Language
and the 'New Wave' of LPP Research

10.45-11.45: Kendall King (University of Minnesota): Multilingualism,
language policy, and transnational families

11.45-12.30: Lunch

12.30-13.30: Thomas Ricento (University of Calgary): Multiculturalism
and the Monoglot Ideology: Incommensurate Worlds?

13.30-14.30: Alexandra Jaffe (California State University, Long
Beach): Language planning as mise-en-scène: structured improvisation,
linguistic personae and projected usage for a minority language

14.30-15.00: Coffee

15.00-16.00: Natalie Schilling (Georgetown University, Washington DC):
Language display as response to cultural (and linguistic)
endangerment: A case study from Smith Island, Maryland, USA

16.00-17.00: Elana Shohamy (Tel Aviv University): Assessment of
Multilingualism as Language Policy

17.00-18.30...: Tapas

Lectures will be given by invited participants only, and there is no
call for papers. Other participants will have to cover their own
expenses related to travel and accommodation, and we do not offer any
grants.

Organisers: Pia Lane, Elizabeth Lanza and Anne Golden.

The workshop has received funding from NFR BILAT, NFR FRIHUM and Kultrans

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