Centre for Transnational Studies

An international conference on Language and the future of Europe:
ideologies, policies and practices

8-10 July 2004
Organising Institution: Centre for Transnational Studies,
Modern Languages
, University of Southampton, United Kingdom


Final draft programme (updated 7 July 2004)

The conference will begin at 14.00 on Thursday 8 July and end at about 13.00 on Saturday 10 July.

Surnames of presenters have been given only in the programme's slots. The full abstracts will be posted shortly on the website as well as being available in hardcopy at the conference. (NB apologies for the lack of accents on this provisional version of the programme; this WILL be rectified in the final draft!).

Please note that each slot is allocated 30 minutes, representing 20 minutes for the presentation and 10 for questions and comments.

Thursday 8 July
02.00 Welcome and introduction
02.15 Plenary 1, Lecture Theatre B, Susan GAL
Migration, minorities and multilingualism in Europe:  language ideologies and the practices of linguistic difference
03.20 – 03.40 J BRUTT-GRIFFLER
Language endangerment and World English: theoretical perspectives
S WRIGHT / H KELLY-HOLMES
Does the internet encourage the maintenance and revitalisation of lesser-used languages?
M PAYNE
Researching foreign language provision within the context of the multilingual school and community
03.45 – 04.15 J O'DRISCOLL
The discourse of English as T-Rex
L BLEICHENBACHER
Dobry den Kosice – üdvözlöm Kassat – hello Kosice: language choice in a Slovak internet guestbook
J COLEMAN
The language of higher education
04.15 Tea break
04.30 – 05.00 R ALEXANDER
Englishisation of Europe in the (dis-) service of people or profit?
A DUSZAK
Why ‘newspeak'? Axiological insights into a new style of communication in Poland
M WISE
Defending France's national linguistic territory within the transnational European Single Market; some implications for EU language policy
05.05 – 05.35 C GNUTZMANN
Globalisation, plurilingualism and English as a Lingua Franca (ELF): Has English as a Foreign Language (EFL) become obsolete?

H KELLY-HOLMES
Advertising and the future of minority languages in Europe – the case of Catalan and Irish
C LONGMAN
Language and politics in the European convention: the challenge of multilingual deliberation
05.40 – 06.10 R LJOSLAND
English: the high variety of Norway?
M JOHANSSON
Media representations of institutional multilingualism of the European Union
M BYRAM
From linguistic diversity to plurilingual education – policy development for Europe

07.15

Dinner

Friday 9 July
09.00 Plenary 2, Lecture Theatre B, Jan BLOMMAERT
European régimes of literacy
10.05 – 10.35 C BRUMFIT
A European perspective on language as liminality
J-B ADREY
Regional and/or Minority Language Politics After Enlargement: The Double Standard Issue
J OCKOVA
“Tell me what do you think about them and I'll tell you who you are.”: the “Other” in the context of foreign language teaching in Czech Republic
S MERCADO
Marketing Catalan language ideologies: regionalism, migration and the dynamism of Catalan language policies
10.40 – 11.10 H De SCHUTTER
Language ideologies in political philosophy
P van AVERMAET
Social determinants of language shift amongst ethnic minority groups
C BARTHA / A BORBELY
Dimensions of linguist otherness: prospects of minority language maintenance in Hungary
R CASESNOVES / T TURELL
Linguistic shift and community language: the effect of demographic factors in the Valencian Country and Catalonia
11.10 Coffee break
11.30 – 12.00 A PRETO-BAY
The teaching of Portuguese as a second language to Eastern European Immigrants: systemic and methodological questions
F M HULT
Swedish minority language rights in ecolinguistic perspective
G HOGAN-BRUN
Framing Educational Debates in Latvia
R BERCERO
Linguistic policies and reality; the absence of a future for Aragonese
12.05 – 12.35 M SPOTTI Constructing ‘native speakers to be' in a primary Flemish multilingual classroom A LINDSKOG Language v. State: comparing the impact of language policies in Sweden and Ireland K BRAZAITIS Whither Lithuanian? Will Scotch supplant Schnapps and Vodka in the Lithuanian (linguistic) cocktail? A BARRERA-GONZALEZ Language ideologies and language policies in Spain 1978-2003
12.40 – 01.10 E GERENTE / H STOYIANNIDOU
Beyond assimilation and ethnocentricity: teaching modern Greek as a foreign and/or second language, in Greece and abroad
T MILANI
Sweden and the EU: language policy and national identity
A PRIEDITE
What do qualitative and quantitative surveys tell us about language policy?
L LOPEZ
On the origins of Spanish: linguistic science, language ideology and nationalism

01.10

Lunch
02.00 Plenary 3, Lecture Theatre B, Colin WILLIAMS
Reluctant Reformers in Language Governance
03.05 – 03.35 T PETROVIC
Balkan people in a non –Balkan state: how national and ethnic language ideologies meet in the case of Serbs in Slovenia
B O'ROURKE
Minority languages as expressions of identity in an expanding Europe: examples from the Irish and Galician contexts
R GOULD
The European paradox: Swiss discourses of identity between dependence and xenophobia
J McPAKE , et al
Promoting linguistic diversity? Local, national and Europe-wide support for community languages
03.40 – 04.10 C VOSS
The Macedonian standard language: a Tito-Yugoslav experiment or symbol for “Great Macedonian” ethnic inclusion?
K GLASER
Language as a multiple boundary marker: Gaelic as a sources of regional, political and subcultural identities
D STOTZ
Breach of peace: struggles around multilingualism in Switzerland
K SMITH
Publishing and language issues in Europe

04.10

Tea break
04.30 – 05.00 P COLUZZI
Minority language planning and regionalism in Italy: the cases of Lombardy and Friuli
L TIMM
Heritage Languages within the European Union:  Opportunity Faces Paradoxes, Two Case Studies
P STEVENSON
'National' languages in transnational contexts: language, migration and citizenship in Europe
05.05 – 05.35 K HORNER
Multikulti, awer op Lëtzebuergesch: negotiating the language-identity link in Luxembourg
G FERGUSON
Language revitalisation: the contrasting trajectories of Welsh and Breton
T OMONIYI
The Ethnic between nation and supranation: ethnolinguistic minorities and European citizenship
05.40 – 06.10 M WAGNER
Non-linguists' language values and attitudes in a growing Europe: the case of Trier in the Moselle-Franconian dialect area
S NOLAN
Are we not French?: Regional identity and language in Eastern Brittany
R ROUILLARD
The Loyalty of Art: Russian Art and Literature and the Estonian Linguistic Nationalism
07.00 Dinner

Saturday 10 July
09.00 – 09.30   S JOHNSON
Orthography, legitimation and the construction of Publics: the case of German
C MAR-MOLINERO
Europe and the Future of Languages: The Case of Spanish
09.35 – 10.05 A CHAMBERS
Language policy in higher education in Europe: what can we learn from bilingual universities?
Y GARIPOV / M SOLNYSHKINA
Language policy in national Republics of Russia: ideology and practice of Tatarstan
G BRAND
The role of "Europe" in the South African language debate
10.10 – 10.40 C HOFFMANN
Social trends and multilingual patterns in contemporary Europe
A TOLSTOKOROVA
Gender, Linguistic Human Rights and European integration
U MEINHOF / N KIWAN
Linguistic identities and social capital: transnationalism and the African music scene in Paris

10.40

Coffee break
11.00 – 11.30 M KARYOLEMOU
Language ideology and language practice in higher education: setting aside national language policies
P HAMBYE
Language policy as a matter of social justice: conditions for fair linguistic markets in the European Union
B BUSCH
Urban vs. national language policies
11.35 – 12.05 E ERLING / S HILGENDORF
Language ideologies in the context of German higher education
F GRIN
Towards a public policy approach to language scenarios for the EU
G EXTRA / K YAGMUR
Dealing with urban multiculturalism in multicultural Europe
12.10 Plenary 4, Lecture Theatre B, Thomas RICENTO
Americanization, language ideologies and the construction of European identities

01.10

End of conference / Lunch

 


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