[lg policy] Fwd: CALL FOR PAPERS: AILA Featured Language Policy & Politics Symposium

[Harold Schiffman]

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Date: Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:59 AM

 CALL FOR PAPERS: AILA Featured Language Policy & Politics Symposium

*AILA Featured Language Policy and Politics Symposium*

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Please submit proposals to LPREN at cal.org by *August 15, 2013*.****

Include: A title; 300 word abstract; presenter name and affiliation, and
email contact information.****

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*Title:
*Directions in Language Policy Research: How Compatible Are Current
Approaches?
*Co-Organizers:**
*Terrence G. Wiley, Center for Applied Linguistics & Arizona State
University
James W. Tollefson, University of Hong Kong****

*Abstract:**
*Approaches to language policy analysis are sometimes dichotomized as
either focusing on social structure (historical-structural approaches) or
emphasizing creative agency within the public sphere. This panel explores
Tollefson’s (2013) contention that there is no inherent theoretical
conflict between these approaches, but instead the differences are “a
matter of emphasis...or perhaps even the temperament of different
researchers.” Rather than focusing on the differences between these
approaches, Tollefson contends that the crucial questions for LP research
are: “Under what conditions are the state and other powerful institutions
(e.g., corporations and non-governmental organizations) able to impose
their will on individuals and communities through language policies? Under
what conditions can individuals and communities act as agents in their own
language learning and language use?” Through research-based examples, the
panel will critically address these questions, examine the relationship
between historical-structural and public sphere approaches, and explore
future directions for LP research and policy analysis.

*Background:**
*In a review of approaches to language policy analysis, Tollefson
(2013, *Language
Policies in Education: Critical Issues, Second Edition *) noted that “we
find in language policy research today a division between an emphasis on
the relatively deterministic historical-structural paradigm and on the
relatively creative public sphere paradigm. The former emphasizes the
important role of social structure (particularly class, as well as race and
gender) in shaping and constraining language policies … whereas, in
contrast, the public sphere paradigm emphasizes the agency of all actors in
the policymaking process, particularly their ability to alter what seem to
be coercive and deterministic trajectories of class-based policymaking
bodies and other institutional forms and structures.”

*LPReN Call for Symposium Papers*
The Language Policy Research Network, hosted by the Center for Applied
Linguistics, solicits abstracts for an invited symposium on language policy
at AILA 2014 in Brisbane, Australia. Through a juried selection process,
research-based policy analysis papers will be selected that exemplify (a)
critical historical-structural approaches to LP research and/or (b)
ethnographic or other approaches that examine individual or community
agency. Submissions should indicate how they address the major questions
identified in the session abstract (above).****

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This session is organized by Terrence Wiley of the Center for Applied
Linguistics and James Tollefson of the University of Hong Kong.****

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Proposals will be evaluated through a juried review process. Although LPReN
is facilitating this session, no resources are available to sponsor travel
to the conference. Thus, those submitting will need to cover their travel
and conferences expenses.****

 LPReN serves as a conduit for the dissemination of information by its
members without implying endorsement of concepts or opinions expressed.

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 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone:  (215) 898-7475
Fax:  (215) 573-2138

Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/

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