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SUMMARY:Linguistic Justice in Policy and Practice - Emeritus Professor Rob
 ert Phillipson\, Copenhagen Business School\, Denmark.
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DESCRIPTION:Whether English ‘would continue to spread as a second langua
 ge the world over\, as a benevolent bonus or creeping cancer of modernity
 ’ was raised by Joshua Fishman in 1976 (cited in Robert Phillipson's Lin
 guistic imperialism\, OUP\, 1992\, 11). ‘Universal’ human rights decla
 rations aim at counteracting the injudicious effects of market forces\, bu
 t language policy and language rights are weakly represented in them. Ther
 e are measures to ensure linguistic justice in some EU functions and in po
 licies in some member states. Whether the increasing dominance of English 
 represents a threat to other languages or not needs empirical investigatio
 n in specific contexts. The learning and use of English is being promoted 
 so energetically worldwide that it is essential to assess whether it serve
 s as a panacea (strengthening multilingualism) or as a pandemic (marginali
 sing other languages). The five Nordic countries (Scandinavia and Finland)
  have policies aiming to ensure a healthy balance between English and nati
 onal languages\, and recommend policies to achieve ‘parallel competence
 ’ in higher education. This goal needs to be integrated into policies fo
 r ensuring linguistic justice for speakers of all languages.\n\nRobert Phi
 llipson is an Emeritus Professor at Copenhagen Business School\, Denmark. 
 British by origin\, \nhe studied at Cambridge and Leeds Universities\, UK\
 , and has a doctorate from the University of Amsterdam. He worked for the 
 British Council in Algeria\, Yugoslavia\, and London\, before emigrating t
 o Denmark in 1973. His main books are Linguistic imperialism (Oxford Unive
 rsity Press\, 1992)\, English-only Europe? Challenging language policy (Ro
 utledge\, 2003)\, updated and translated into French as La domination de l
 ’anglais: \nun défi pour l’Europe (Libre & Solidaire\, 2019)\, and Li
 nguistic imperialism continued (Routledge\, 2009). \nHe has co-edited book
 s on language rights and multilingual education\, including Why English? C
 onfronting the Hydra (2016) and Language Rights (four volumes\, with his w
 ife\, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas\, 2017). \nHe was awarded the UNESCO Linguapax 
 prize in 2010.\n\nThis is a joint seminar with MEITS a major interdiscipli
 nary research project funded under the AHRC Open World Research Initiative
 . Linguistic competence in more than one language – being multilingual 
 – sits at the heart of the study of modern languages and literatures\, d
 istinguishing it from cognate disciplines http://www.meits.org/.\n
LOCATION:Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\
 , Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, room 1S3
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