[lg policy] Macau | UM linguistic researcher appointed UNESCO Chair of Language Policies for Multilingualism The director of the University of Macau Research Centre for Luso-Asian Studies, Roberval Teixeira e Silva, has been appointed a coordinator for the UNESCO Chair of Language Policies for Multilingualism Macau (MNA) – The University of Macau (UM) announced this Tuesday that the director of its Research Centre for Luso-Asian Studies, Roberval Teixeira e Silva, has been appointed as the institutional coordinator of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Chair of Language Policies for Multilingualism. “‘This is the opportunity to bring closer the chair institutions based in Asia and, even more especially, those from the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa ), with a focus on China/Macau and Brazil contexts and relations,” Mr. Silva said. The investigator, who is also an assistant professor from the Department of Portuguese, Faculty

[Harold Schiffman]

 Macau | UM linguistic researcher appointed UNESCO Chair of Language
Policies for MultilingualismThe director of the University of Macau
Research Centre for Luso-Asian Studies, Roberval Teixeira e Silva, has been
appointed a coordinator for the UNESCO Chair of Language Policies for
Multilingualism

Macau (MNA) – The University of Macau (UM) announced this Tuesday that the
director of its Research Centre for Luso-Asian Studies, Roberval Teixeira e
Silva, has been appointed as the institutional coordinator of the United
Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Chair of
Language Policies for Multilingualism.

“‘This is the opportunity to bring closer the chair institutions based in
Asia and, even more especially, those from the BRICS (Brazil, Russia,
India, China and South Africa ), with a focus on China/Macau and Brazil
contexts and relations,” Mr. Silva said.

The investigator, who is also an assistant professor from the Department of
Portuguese, Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FAH), also stated the UM team
will propose projects that will deal with a set of contemporary issues in
language, culture, and society, including language policy, migration and
mobility, globalisation and super-diversity, multilingualism and
multiculturalism, intercultural interactions, and the acquisition of
languages.


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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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