[lg policy] Fwd: [Linganth] CFP: The Substance of Linguistic Justice (MANCEPT 2017)

[Harold Schiffman]

Forwarded From: Yael Peled <yael.a.peled at gmail.com>
CFP: The Substance of Linguistic Justice (MANCEPT 2017)



*MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory, University of Manchester, 11-13
September 2017*


*The Substance of Linguistic Justice*
*Convenors*: Matteo Bonotti (Cardiff University) and Yael Peled (McGill
University)

Over the past fifteen years, linguistic justice has increasingly become a
key area of research in normative political theory. By drawing on existing
debates on liberalism, multiculturalism, and social justice, and applying
them to language-related issues, political theorists have investigated
questions such as the following: how should states respond to the fact of
linguistic diversity? Should states officially recognize and promote
minority languages? Should states and supranational organizations promote
the learning of a shared lingua franca and, if so, is English the best
candidate for this role? Answering these and related questions has
generated a growing body of literature (e.g. Kymlicka and Patten 2003; De
Schutter 2008; Van Parijs 2011; Patten 2014), which has often drawn on
examples concerning political communities that display particularly high
levels of longstanding linguistic diversity, e.g. Canada, Belgium,
Switzerland, and the European Union.

While this emerging body of literature is both timely and productive, one
of the main critiques that may be advanced against it concerns the
unsystematic and sometimes superficial understanding of language and
linguistic agency that underlies it, which consequently overlooks the
complex social and cultural dynamics that characterise the political life
of language. More specifically, a closer engagement with empirical work on
language politics and policy, and more broadly sociolinguistics (including
subfields such as forensic and historical linguistics) is imperative in
order to render the analysis and normative recommendations presented in
this body of work more empirically informed.

This workshop aims to partially fill this gap in the literature, by
encouraging submissions that accord greater role to empirical work in the
formulation and application of theories of linguistic justice. The workshop
especially aims to complement the dominant focus on issues
of inter-linguistic justice with an emphasis on the normative problems
posed by intra-linguistic justice, and on the political dynamics of
language as a live and interactive communication process.

The workshop will especially be of interest to political theorists but
proposals from sociolinguists, lawyers and political scientists with a
strong interest in linguistic justice are also welcome. The workshop
invites papers from scholars of all levels, from PhD students to full
professors. Papers addressing the following broad topics are especially
welcome:

• Inter-linguistic justice
• Intra-linguistic justice
• English as a lingua franca (including Brexit-related issues)
• The ethics of live interaction in political settings (e.g. language and
deliberative democracy)
• Democracy and political mobilization across linguistic boundaries

If you are interested in participating in this workshop, please submit an
abstract of 200-300 words to Matteo Bonotti (BonottiM at cardiff.ac.uk) and
Yael Peled (yael.peled at mcgill.ca) by *15 May 2017*.


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Dr. Yael Peled

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Language and Health
The Health Care Access for Linguistic Minorities (HCALM
<https://www.mcgill.ca/hssaccess/trhpp/research>) Network

Institute for Health and Social Policy
McGill University
Charles Meredith House
1130 Pine Avenue West
Montreal, Quebec H3A 1A3
Tel.: 514-398-1236 <(514)%20398-1236>

Faculty of Law
McGill University
Chancellor Day Hall
3644 Peel Street
Montreal, Quebec
Canada H3A 1W9
Tel.: 514-398-6666 <(514)%20398-6666>

Website: www.peledy.com <http://www.peledy.com>


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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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