[lg policy] New Summer School

Mon Apr 3 15:20:44 UTC 2017

Good morning,

We would like to post about a new Summer School we are preparing for this
coming July 31th to August 4th at University of Costa Rica.
Do let me know if there is something else you will need to post/spread this
Summer School.

http://inil.ucr.ac.cr/lplpe17-en/

This is the general information:

Summer School on Linguistic Policy, Linguistic Planning and Evaluation
LPLPE17

General description

Presentation

Latin America is a multicultural and multilingual region, of which Costa
Rica does not escape; hence addressing issues of policy and language
planning is fundamental, particularly if we consider that the traditional
view tends to hide other cultures and languages that make up the identity
of a country.

Given the above, it is crucial to have a space in which it is possible to
share experiences, where the problems, both national and international,
that are exposed, allow us to analyze the situation and postulate solutions
from the point of view of the diversity.

The area of linguistic policy and language planning is an interdisciplinary
field of research in growth. There is increasing awareness of the
importance of language policy and language planning in education, public
service administration and in economic circles.

Language policy can influence student outcomes in the labor market, citizen
participation in democratic decision-making processes and the ability of
companies to compete. Therefore, it is a field of study that requires
contributions from various specialties.

Although linguistic planning has traditionally been part of
sociolinguistics, it now tends to become an interdisciplinary area in which
specialists from sociolinguistics, political science, economics and
philosophy converge; therefore we propose an international Summer School on
this subject, which would be the first one to be held in Latin America.

The Institute of Linguistic Research (INIL) of the University of Costa
Rica, in collaboration with the Esperantic Studies Foundation (ESF) (
http://www.esperantic.org/en/home/), invites to the Summer School on
Linguistic Policy, Linguistic Planning and Evaluation (PLPLE), which aims
to open an international space for discussion on Linguistic Policy and
Linguistic Planning.

The Summer School will consist of the description and analysis of the
fundamental concepts of Linguistic Policy, Linguistic Planning and
Linguistic Policy Evaluation, as well as its objectives and methods. During
the four sessions of the Summer School, the exponents will refer to
specific cases that they have investigated. Of the four sessions, three of
them will be held in English and one in Spanish. At the same time, there
will be a series of lectures related to the Summer School topics.

The Summer School will last a week, with 20 hours, in a total of 4 days
(except on August the 2nd, which is a holiday). Each invited speaker will
give a four-hour workshop. We are considering the possibility that
postgraduate students of the University of Costa Rica receive a credit for
their attendance*.

General objective:

The Summer School aims to attract postgraduate students from several
countries and to offer them state-of-the-art training to study the
theoretical, methodological and practical foundations of Linguistic Policy,
Linguistic Planning and Linguistic Policy Evaluation. It will also be a
space for meeting, communication, collaboration and exchange of ideas
between researchers working in linguistic policy, language planning and
evaluation.

Specific objectives:

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   Analyzing and discuss the national and international linguistic
   situation from the point of view of Linguistic Justice and Linguistic
   Planning.
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   Explaining the proposed solutions to situations of injustice and
   linguistic imbalance, at both national and international level.
   -

   Preparing the professionals to understand the requirements of
   multilingual societies, with special emphasis on Costa Rican situation.
   -

   Systematizing, for dissemination purposes, the analysis and discussion
   of activities in favor of the strengthening of linguistic rights.
   -

   Improving the effectiveness and the efficiency of language policies.

The Summer School will consist of four parts:

   1.

   Overview of LPP (Language Policy and Planning). History, objectives and
   outputs of LPP. It will be presented by Dr. David Cassels Johnson,
   University of Iowa: “Language Policy and Planning: Theory, Method, and
   Findings.”
   2.

   Evaluation of language policies. This part is necessary to identify the
   effectiveness of LPP and thus measure it in various fields of social and
   economic life. It will be presented by Dr. Michele Gazzola,
   Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: “Evaluation in Language Policy and Planning
   (LPP).”
   3.

   Interlinguistic. The study of planned languages is also part of LPP
   and is an adequate contribution to the Summer School. Interlinguistics
   also studies the human relationships that take place through planned
   languages. This is a subject that is necessarily related to the inequality
   between languages, that is to say, Linguistic Justice. It will be presented
   by Dr. Federico Gobbo, University of Amsterdam: “Interlinguistics as
   extreme language planning: categories and cases.”
   4.

   Problems of planning in languages in process of displacement. It will
   be presented by Dr. Carlos Sánchez Avendaño, University of Costa Rica:
   “Problems of planning in languages in process of displacement.”

Invited speakers’ profile:

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   Dr. David Cassels Jonhson (
   https://education.uiowa.edu/person/david-cassels-johnson), University of
   Iowa, US. Associate Professor of LPP, publisher of the book Research
   Methods in Language Policy and Planning: A Practical Guide, with Hult,
   F., 2015: Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, and author of Language Policy,
   2013, Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan .
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   Dr. Michele Gazzola (www.michelegazzola.com), Humboldt-Universität zu
   Berlin (Germany), University of Lugano (Switzerland), and Institute for
   Ethnic Studies in Ljubljana (Slovenia), researcher on language economics
   and language policy evaluation. Editor of the book The Economics of
   Language Policy, with B.-A. Wickström, 2016, Cambridge (MA): MIT Press,
   and author of The Evaluation of Language Regimes, 2014, Amsterdam: John
   Benjamins.
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   Dr. Federico Gobbo (http://federicogobbo.name), University of Amsterdam,
   Netherlands and University of Turin, Italy. Professor of Interlinguistics
   and Esperantology, author of the book Constructive Adpositional
   Grammars: Foundations of Constructive Linguistics, 2011, Cambridge:
   Cambridge Scholars Publishing, and the article “Are planned languages less
   complex than natural languages?” In Language Sciences, 2016.
   -

   Dr. Carlos Sánchez Avendaño (
   http://filologia.ucr.ac.cr/sites/default/files/cvs/lin15.pdf
   <http://163.178.170.46/filologia/flweb/sites/default/files/cvs/lin15.pdf>),
   University of Costa Rica. Full professor of Linguistics and specialist in
   Linguistic Revitalization. Author of the book La cola de la iguana: El
   pueblo Malecu ante el desplazamiento de su lengua y su cultura tradicional,
   2015, Costa Rica: Editorial Universidad de Costa Rica, and the article
   “Reconstitución léxica y variabilidad morfoléxica de una lengua muy
   desplazada: El caso del vocabulario del cuerpo humano en la lengua de
   brorán (térraba)”, in Estudios de Lingüística Chibcha, 2015.

The working languages will be English and Spanish. The proceedings will
appear in the magazine Káñina, Revista de Artes y Letras de la Universidad
de Costa Rica (http://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/kanina).

Special guest:

   -

   Dra. Marielos Murillo Rojas (Universidad de Costa Rica): “Linguistic
   Planification in  Basic General Education”.

Descriptors:

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   Policy analysis
   -

   Evaluation
   -

   Language management
   -

   Language
   -

   Interlinguistics
   -

   Language and Culture
   -

   Linguistics
   -

   Applied Linguistics
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   Multilingualism
   -

   Planning
   -

   Language planning
   -

   Language policy
   -

   Sociolinguistics

Participants:

This Summer School is meant for:

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   Researchers
   -

   Specialists
   -

   University students
   -

   Professionals in Language Policy
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   Professional in Linguistic Planning
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   Professionals in Linguistic Justice
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   Professionals in Linguistic Law

ORGANIZERS:

Coordinators:

Dr. Jorge Antonio Leoni de León

Dr. Michele Gazzola

Assistant:

Bach. Yislén Barboza Hidalgo

Collaborative researchers:

M.Sc. Hugo Mora Poltronieri

M.L. Erica Vargas Castro

Lcda. Daniela Sánchez Sánchez

This Summer School is registered in the University of Costa Rica in the
Vicerrectoría de Investigación, code 745-B7727 and in the Vicerrectoría de
Acción Social, code ED-3256, and it has the support of the Institute of
Linguistic Research (INIL), the Vicerrectoría de Investigación (
http://www.vinv.ucr.ac.cr/), the Posgrado de Lingüística (
http://www.linguistica.ucr.ac.cr/), the Sistema de Estudios de Posgrado
(SEP) (http://www.sep.ucr .ac.cr/) and the Esperantic Studies Foundation
(ESF) (http://www.esperantic.org/en/home/
<http://www.esperantic.org/en/home/>).

INFORMATION ABOUT THIS SUMMER SCHOOL

Dates:

>From July the 31st to August the 4th, 2017

Duration:

4 days, for a 20 hour total

Type of certificate given:

Participation or attendance, depending on each case*.

Deadline for registration:

Tuesday, June 6th, 2017, with limited capacity.

Registration fee:

General public: $100,00 USD.

Students and functionaries of the University of Costa Rica do not pay the
registration fee.

Post-Summer School Publications:

There is the possibility of publishing the Proceedings of the Summer School
on Linguistic Policy, Linguistic Planning and Evaluation (PLPLE) in the
Revista Káñina, of the University of Costa Rica (
http://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/kanina), so we invite all the
participants of the Summer School to send their proposals.

We will only receive academic articles from the thematic areas discussed
above. These should be sent with a summary in Spanish and English of a
maximum of 200 words. The accepted languages are Spanish, English, French
and even other languages, depending on the availability of blind peers.
Only twelve (12) articles will be published.

Those who send their proposal for publication will receive an answer from
within four weeks after it has been reviewed by the blind peers. Interested
parties will have up until June 6th, 2017 to send the proposals to
linguistica.ucr at gmail.com.

Yislén Barboza Hidalgo
*Filóloga y traductora*
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