'Language policy issues in ‘new speaker’ contexts – Critical ethnographic perspectives'

Workshop organisé par le Groupe de Recherche sur le Plurilinguisme (Pluri-LL) dans le cadre de l'action COST IS1306

Fuelled by the work of Working Group 9 of the COST-Action on New Speakers in a
Multilingual Europe (http://www.nspk.org.uk/) this two-day workshop addresses the
complex and multi-sited nature of language policy and planning processes in various ‘new
speaker’ settings across Europe. During the workshop, the invited speakers will present
papers from a range of different contexts (including historical minority languages, migration
settings and transnational workplaces). Mainly rooted in critical ethnography the papers will
help to clarify how language policy matters are dealt with by speakers ‘on the ground’ as
well as by language policy and planning officers and other agents in managerial positions.
The workshop will help the speakers to discuss and fine-tune the first draft of a paper for a
special issue on language policy and new speakerness that will be submitted to Language
Policy in the second half of 2017.

Organizers: Jeroen Darquennes (UNamur) & Josep Soler (Stockholm University)

Programme

Thursday, 16 March

09:15 – 09:30

Opening address and practical arrangements, Jeroen Darquennes (Namur)

09:30 – 10:15

New speakers in language policy research: prospects and limitations, Jeroen Darquennes (Namur) & Josep Soler (Stockholm)

10:15 – 11:00

Contesting sub-state integration policies: migrants as stakeholders in language policy, Anna Augustyniak (Southampton) & Gwennan Higham (Swansea)

11:00 – 11:15

Coffee break

11:15 – 12:00

Language policy, learning and citizenship in times of superdiversity: creating spaces for ‘new speakers’, Gwennan Higham (Swansea), Steve Morris (Swansea) & Kathryn Jones (IAITH)

12:00 – 13:30

Lunch

13:30 – 14:15

Language policy oddities working toward the normalisation of ‘new speakers’ in the Netherlands, Massimiliano Spotti (Tilburg)

14:15 – 15:00

To go or not to go? The role of language and language policies in the migration process of medical workers, Nora Schleicher (Budapest) & Minna Suni (Jyväskylä)

15:00 – 15:15

Coffee break

15:15 – 16:00

Resistance and adaptation to newspeakerness in a small nation state: two tales from Estonia, Josep Soler (Stockholm) & Heiko F. Marten (Rezekne)

16:00 – 16:30

Summary of day 1, Jeroen Darquennes (Namur)

19:00 Dinner

 

Friday, 17 March

09:30 – 10:30

Language policy research in new speaker settings: a critical outlook, Colin H. Williams (Cardiff & Cambridge)

10:30 – 11:00

Group discussion

11:00 – 13:00

Writing session

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 15:45

Writing session

15:45 – 16:00

Workshop ends

Contact : Jeroen Darquennes - 081724171 - jeroen.darquennes@unamur.be
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