34.615, FYI: Public Lecture by Prof Ben Rampton: 'Localising Linguistic Citizenship'

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From: Luke Lu [lujiqun at ntu.edu.sg]
Subject: Public Lecture by Prof Ben Rampton: 'Localising Linguistic Citizenship'

'Localising Linguistic Citizenship'

24 Feb 2023 Friday | 3pm - 5pm | Nanyang Technological University SHHK
Auditorium (Level B1-14)

In-person Registration: https://wis.ntu.edu.sg/pls/webexe88/REGISTER_N
TU.REGISTER?EVENT_ID=OA23021318133459

Livestreaming on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS6-K9CM8fk

Abstract:
As “an attempt at a comprehensive political stance on language”
(Stroud 2008:45), ‘Linguistic Citizenship’ (LC) deserves to be a
mainstream concept in socio- and applied linguistics. But the
evaluation of its potential needs to be context-sensitive, reckoning
with the specifics of the environments where it is taken up. This
presentation reviews LC’s relevance to the UK, focusing on the ways in
which we have been working with it at the Hub for Education & Language
Diversity (www.kcl.ac.uk/held). HELD aligns with LC’s commitment to
democratic participation, to voice, to the heterogeneity of linguistic
resources, and to the political value of linguistic understanding, as
well as with LC’s emphasis on ground-level citizenship acts and
practices, and its profound embedding in socio- and applied
linguistics. But education and everyday life are also influenced by
state-centred definitions of citizenship, bringing state policy and
provision into focus at HELD, as well as the role that universities
can play promoting LC. The presentation also discusses two concepts we
have been working with that complement Linguistic Citizenship: the
‘Total Linguistic Fact’, an encapsulation of sociolinguistic thought
that can be turned to the practical planning of classroom activity,
bringing out its ideological dynamics; and the ‘diasporic local’,
which creates new possibilities for multi-directional communication
and learning by dispensing with ‘non-citizen outsider’ as a hegemonic
classification in language teaching and language teacher education.

Bio:
Ben Rampton is Professor of Applied & Sociolinguistics at King’s
College London. He does inter- actional sociolinguistics, and his
interests cover urban multilingualism; youth, ethnicity and social
class; conflict and (in)securitization; and language education policy
and practice. His books include Crossing: Language & Ethnicity among
Adolescents (1996/2018) and Linguistic Practice in Changing Conditions
(2022). He founded www.wpull.org and was founding convener of the UK
Linguistic Eth- nography Forum, directed the King’s ESRC
Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Centre from
2011-2014, and is regularly involved in adult ESOL teaching with
www.efalondon.org.

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

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