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S138 2/3 | ReN: Language Policy: Theory, Method, and Advocacy for Contemporary Geopolitics

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The Language Policy Research Network (LPReN) symposium is organized around three areas within the broader field of scholarship relevant to language policy, politics, and planning: theory, method, and advocacy. Foci include reconceptualizing global innovations in language policy and planning, employing novel research methodologies in language policy, and promoting language rights to preserve minoritized languages. To submit to the LPReN Call for proposals, select ONE of the three areas: Theory, Method, or Advocacy and clearly indicate the selection on your proposal. Theory: Exploration of the theoretical constructs, origins, potential, and philosophical implications of language policy, politics, and planning as they relate to the structures, individuals, communities, and societies within and among which they are undertaken. Method: Identification and explication of the means through which language policymaking, management, and planning take shape, including identification of the particular overt and covert activities, parties, and institutions that constitute methods employed to burden, obstruct, or facilitate the implementation of policy. Also, critical examination of research methods for investigating language policy texts and practices including issues of ethics and research design in language policy research. Advocacy: Engagement with of the role of power, elitism, prejudice, privilege, exclusivity, and hegemony in acts associated with language policy; engagement in activities to expose majoritarian narratives and highlight language rights, promote heritage language maintenance and prosperity, and resolve conflicts among language communities and in organizations.

August 20, 2021 08:30 AM - August 20, 2022 12:00 Noon(Europe/Amsterdam)
Venue : Room 1
20210820T0830 20210820T1200 Europe/Amsterdam S138 2/3 | ReN: Language Policy: Theory, Method, and Advocacy for Contemporary Geopolitics

The Language Policy Research Network (LPReN) symposium is organized around three areas within the broader field of scholarship relevant to language policy, politics, and planning: theory, method, and advocacy. Foci include reconceptualizing global innovations in language policy and planning, employing novel research methodologies in language policy, and promoting language rights to preserve minoritized languages. To submit to the LPReN Call for proposals, select ONE of the three areas: Theory, Method, or Advocacy and clearly indicate the selection on your proposal. Theory: Exploration of the theoretical constructs, origins, potential, and philosophical implications of language policy, politics, and planning as they relate to the structures, individuals, communities, and societies within and among which they are undertaken. Method: Identification and explication of the means through which language policymaking, management, and planning take shape, including identification of the particular overt and covert activities, parties, and institutions that constitute methods employed to burden, obstruct, or facilitate the implementation of policy. Also, critical examination of research methods for investigating language policy texts and practices including issues of ethics and research design in language policy research. Advocacy: Engagement with of the role of power, elitism, prejudice, privilege, exclusivity, and hegemony in acts associated with language policy; engagement in activities to expose majoritarian narratives and highlight language rights, promote heritage language maintenance and prosperity, and resolve conflicts among language communities and in organizations.

Room 1 AILA 2021 aila2021@gcb.nl

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History, Genealogy, and Language-Policy Research Methods

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This paper focuses on historical research methods in language-policy analysis. While history in general has not been central to the field, Foucault’s notion of genealogy has inspired a growing number of language-policy studies. This paper discusses three key questions that genealogy poses for language-policy scholarship and how historical analysis might inform contemporary language-policy advocacy.
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Jeff Bale
OISE - University Of Toronto

Vulgaridad as common language use in medical care: Implications in language policy for Mexican migrant farmworker men

StandardAILA Symposium 08:30 AM - 12:00 Noon (Europe/Amsterdam) 2021/08/20 06:30:00 UTC - 2022/08/20 10:00:00 UTC
Healthcare access is limited for Mexican Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker men. Low English proficiency and education level contribute to power differentials limiting health literacy and agency. Language policy considering the concept of vulgaridad (common language) equalize power dynamics between provider and patient, potentially decreasing health disparity with sensitive topics such as HIV/AIDS.
Presenters Donald Allison
Washington State University

Superdiversity, linguistic citizenship and language rights: Disjunctures and connections for language policy

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This presentation examines how three analytical sociolinguistic frameworks – superdiversity, linguistic citizenship (LC) and language rights (LR) – might usefully inform the ongoing development of national language policies in relation to both their increasingly diversified/multilingual constituent populations and wider trends of migration/transmigration in a globalized world.
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Stephen May
University Of Auckland

Reconceptualizing the analysis of language policy texts: a textual ethnographic approach

StandardAILA Symposium 08:30 AM - 12:00 Noon (Europe/Amsterdam) 2021/08/20 06:30:00 UTC - 2022/08/20 10:00:00 UTC
Since the scope of language policy has expanded beyond its once exclusive focus on top-down structural forces, our analyses of policy texts should embrace complexity, dynamicity and hybridity and shift toward 'ethnography of text' focussing on how fragments of policy texts are imbued with context-specific meanings.
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Kristof Savski
Prince Of Songkla University

Ensuring student’s language rights or reinforcing hegemony? The case of Nynorsk at the largest university in Norway

StandardAILA Symposium 08:30 AM - 12:00 Noon (Europe/Amsterdam) 2021/08/20 06:30:00 UTC - 2022/08/20 10:00:00 UTC
This paper provides insight into the writing practices and language attitudes of university staff who are asked to write in Nynorsk in order to ensure the language rights of Nynorsk using students. It investigates if attitudes expressed by staff can explain a lack of commitment to language legislation.
Presenters Jorunn Simonsen Thingnes
Associate Professor , Western Norway University Of Applied Sciences

Language Policy and Social Cohesion Analysis in Multi-ethnic Settings: The Role of Q-Methodology

Focused 08:30 AM - 12:00 Noon (Europe/Amsterdam) 2021/08/20 06:30:00 UTC - 2022/08/20 10:00:00 UTC
This paper contrasts multi-ethnic immigrant European (Sweden and Switzerland) with Asian settings (Myanmar and South Thailand) to explore the illuminating role of Q methodology in mapping the range of argumentative positions about linguistic pluralism where debates about minorities and majorities are encountered and social cohesion is at risk.
Presenters
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Joseph Lo Bianco
University Of Melbourne
Adrian Lundberg
Malmö University

Privacy in the public space – implications for Linguistic Landscape research

FocusedAILA Symposium 08:30 AM - 12:00 Noon (Europe/Amsterdam) 2021/08/20 06:30:00 UTC - 2022/08/20 10:00:00 UTC
Language choices on signs constitute a manifestation of de facto language policy. While signage in the public space is freely accessible, those on homes call for different ethical considerations. This paper explores the ethical considerations regarding privacy in Linguistic Landscape research as well as appropriate research methodologies.
Presenters Chrismi-Rinda Loth
University Of The Free State
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