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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 L
 inguistic imperialism\, OUP \, 1992\, 11). ‘Universal’ human rights de
 clarations aim at counteracting the injudicious effects of market forces\,
  but language policy and language rights are weakly represented in them. T
 here are measures to ensure linguistic justice in some EU functions and in
  policies in some member states. Whether the increasing dominance of Engli
 sh represents a threat to other languages or not needs empirical investiga
 tion in specific contexts. The learning and use of English is being promot
 ed so energetically worldwide that it is essential to assess whether it se
 rves as a panacea (strengthening multilingualism) or as a pandemic (margin
 alising other languages). The five Nordic countries (Scandinavia and Finla
 nd) have policies aiming to ensure a healthy balance between English and n
 ational languages\, and recommend policies to achieve ‘parallel competen
 ce’ in higher education. This goal needs to be integrated into policies 
 for ensuring linguistic justice for speakers of all languages.\n\nRobert P
 hillipson is an Emeritus Professor at Copenhagen Business School\, Denmark
 . British by origin\, he 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: un défi pour l’Europe (Libre & Solidaire\, 2019)\, and Ling
 uistic imperialism continued (Routledge\, 2009). He has co-edited books on
  language rights and multilingual education\, including Why English? Confr
 onting the Hydra (2016) and Language Rights (four volumes\, with his wife\
 , Tove Skutnabb-Kangas\, 2017). He was awarded the UNESCO Linguapax prize 
 in 2010.\n\nThis is a joint seminar with The Second Language Education Gro
 up whose focus is on foreign\, second\, and first language learning and te
 aching in the UK and abroad. \n
LOCATION:Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\
 , Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, room 1S3.
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