28.2981, Confs: Socioling/Portugal

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-2981. Mon Jul 10 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.2981, Confs: Socioling/Portugal

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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 11:19:11
From: Nuno Neves [nunomiguelvasco at gmail.com]
Subject: New Speakers in a Multilingual Europe: Policies and Practices

 
New Speakers in a Multilingual Europe: Policies and Practices 
Short Title: NS2017 

Date: 14-Sep-2017 - 16-Sep-2017 
Location: Coimbra, Portugal 
Contact: Clara Keating 
Contact Email: coimbranewspeakers at ces.uc.pt 
Meeting URL: http://www.ces.uc.pt/coimbranewspeakers/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The Network:
Language is a key component in accessing education, employment, social
services and for community participation. It has also been seen historically
in Europe as defining individual and collective identities. The processes
whereby people learn new languages and become legitimate speakers of these
languages are complex. A shared understanding of these complexities across the
different multilingual scenarios (including education, healthcare, youth
culture, the workplace and NGOs) in which the participants of this network are
working, sharpen a knowledge of how to tackle the challenges that new speakers
of different linguistic varieties face in the context of a multilingual
Europe. Globalization, increased mobility and transnational networking
transform the linguistic ecologies of contemporary societies. Through this
Action the aim is to better understand the potential social tensions that
emerge from unequal access to participation of new speakers in Europe’s
multilingual projects. These inequalities pose a potential challenge to
European integration, social cohesion and economic collaboration, as well as
to the full participation of territorial and immigrant minorities.

The Event:
Focusing on Policies and Practices, the New Speakers' Network Final Whole
Action Conference will bring together the work that emerged from dialogue and
collaboration between researchers, policy makers and stakeholders working
together over the past four years on the dynamics involved in becoming a ‘new
speaker’ of a language in the context of a multilingual Europe. We will
showcase our research findings and policy recommendations by exploring a
format of joint dialogue between researchers and stakeholders. We will focus
on different themes linked to the scientific activities of our Working Groups:

New Speakers and Competence
New Speakers and Subjectivities
New Speakers and Language Policies
New Speakers, Legitimacy and Governmentality

New speakers are multilingual citizens who, by engaging with languages other
than their ‘native’ or ‘national’ language(s), need to cross existing social
boundaries, re-evaluate their own levels of linguistic competence and
creatively (re)structure their social practices to adapt to new, complex and
overlapping linguistic spaces. In our network we have sought to understand in
what ways tensions can emerge if new speakers find obstacles to fully
participate in Europe’s increasingly multilingual political and economic
spheres. These inequalities could pose challenges to European integration,
social cohesion and economic collaboration, as well as to the full
participation of territorial and immigrant minorities.

Along with these sessions, the event will include plenary conferences, local
stakeholder panels on new speakers and linguistic diversity in Portuguese
speaking contexts and a number of cultural events on issues around territorial
and immigrant sociolinguistic minorities aimed for the general public.
 






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