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SUMMARY:Parallelingualism.  What can Nordic language policy learn from its
  past? - Andrew Linn\, University of Sheffield
DTSTART:20140130T160000Z
DTEND:20140130T173000Z
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CONTACT:Madeleine Forbes
DESCRIPTION:Across the Nordic countries there is anxiety at government lev
 el that the national languages are undergoing a process of 'domain loss' w
 hereby certain professional fields are now operating entirely or to a larg
 e extent through the medium of English and that\, as a consequence\, the n
 ational languages will cease to be 'full-service' languages in the future.
   \n\nOver the past decade this concern has fuelled extensive language pol
 icy development and new forms of language planning at national and at pan-
 Nordic level.  The key policy to address the challenge of domain loss is t
 hat of 'parallelingualism'.  \n\nIn this paper I will present this policy 
 and seek to understand what it means in theory and in practice\, particula
 rly in the context of Higher Education.  An official policy on the paralle
 l use of several languages or language varieties is not a new one in the N
 ordic context\, and a key question in this paper will be what this new pol
 icy can learn from the past experience of similar language planning.
LOCATION:Room GR06/07\, Faculty of English\, Sidgwick Site\, West Road\, C
 ambridge
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