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Youth and Education in Sri Lanka Christina P. Davis Oxford Studies in the Anthropology of Language Demonstrates the challenges of promoting peace and interethnic tolerance through multilingual language policies in post-civil war Sri Lanka Explores how power inequalities and ethnic conflict are created and perpetuated in everyday social interactions Advances studies in the ethnography of...

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Fachtagung anlässlich des Internationalen Tages der Muttersprache: 21. Februar 2020,  14-18 Uhr, VHS Ottakring Lernende in Deutschkursen der Erwachsenenbildung sprechen viele Sprachen, das heißt sie besitzen reichhaltige sprachliche Repertoires, sie sind alle ganz verschieden und haben bewegende Biographien: Sie sind „superdivers“ und sie sind mehrsprachig. Warum spricht der...

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02.10.2019 Registration opened today for an international conference entitled “Shared Language: Integration through Multilingualism”, which is being held in Tallinn on 14 & 15 November. The conference will bring together recognised experts from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Latvia, Denmark, Norway, Germany and Estonia to explore identity, education and labour market...

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The Conversation, 14 June 2019 - By Alexander Baratta, Lecturer in English Language, University of Manchester - Juggling Korean, English – and Konglish Stockphotomania/Shutterstock - Konglish is the term used to describe the variety of English unique to Korea. It is just one of many varieties of the English language that exists far beyond the borders of so-called “inner circle” Englishes...

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Edited by: Angelika Mietzner, Anne Storch Channel View Publications, Series Tourism and Cultural Change, 13 May 2019, ISBN 9781845416775This book focuses on perspectives from and on the global south, providing fresh data and analyses on languages in African, Caribbean, Middle-Eastern and Asian tourism contexts. It provides a critical perspective on tourism in postcolonial and neocolonial...

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Débat participatif Trois organisations en didactique des langues, l'Acedle, l'Asdifle et Transit-Lingua organisent les 14 et 15 juin prochains un débat participatif ayant pour thème : "En quoi les langues ont-elles un rôle à jouer dans les sociétés mondialisées au sein d'une Europe fragilisée ?". Le débat aura lieu à Paris, les 14 et 15 juin 2019 à la Maison de la Recherche...

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La Voce che stecca - gennaio 13, 2019 Beatrice Caniglia 1 Commento anglicismi, italiano, neologismiDal volgare fiorentino di Dante, padre della lingua italiana, allo «sciacquar i panni nell’Arno» di Manzoni fino ai neologismi dei futuristi, il nostro linguaggio, parlato e non, ha subito una vera e propria evoluzione. Cosa rimanga ad oggi di questo gergo antico è difficile da dirsi: tra...

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Il 3 aprile, alle ore 17.30, il Prof.  Jürgen Trabant (Freie Universität Berlin) terrà l'ultima conferenza de I Mercoledì dell'Accademia 2019 Abstract L'Europa è un continente di molte lingue. L'Unione Europea protegge e promuove ufficialmente la molteplicità delle sue lingue. Ma la pluralità linguistica è anche un ostacolo drammatico alla comunicazione in...

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Florian Coulmas Oxford University Press, 14 December 2017, ISBN: 9780198791102 This book offers an introduction to the many facets of multilingualism in a changing world. It begins with an overview of the multiplicity of human languages and their geographic distribution, before moving on to the key question of what multilingualism actually is and what is understood by terms such as 'mother...

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Source : Actualitté, 8 février 2019 Une centaine d'auteurs français a signé, le 26 janvier dernier, une tribune très agressive à l'encontre du salon Livre Paris, pour son usage jugé excessif de termes anglophones et de « globish ». Le salon, qui se déroulera en mars prochain à Paris, changera les noms des événements incriminés, mais conservera au contraire l'expression...

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Participer à un projet de volontariat pour changer la vie des enfants défavorisés Par Sandrine Benard , le 21 janvier 2019, Thot cursus Ainsi parlait Mère Teresa (1910-1997), sainte et Prix Nobel de la Paix en 1979. Aujourd’hui, vous l’aurez sans doute compris, nous nous intéresserons aux conditions -pas toujours favorables- qui encadrent l’enseignement des langues et surtout, à...

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 IPOL, publicado em 13/02/2019 Das cerca de sete mil línguas e dialetos que o mundo tem, duas mil e quinhentas estão em risco de extinção. E, para além destas, existem muitas mais ameaçadas e outras em situação muito vulnerável A saída do Reino Unido da União Europeia veio levantar problemas de diversa ordem, um dos quais é a política das línguas à escala europeia e...

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France Info, 3 janvier 2019 - Un drapeau islandais.  (THORVALDUR ORN KRISMUNDSSON / AFP) Des chercheurs s'inquiètent de voir les jeunes Islandais apprendrent de plus en plus tôt l'anglais au risque, selon eux, de moins bien parler à terme, l'islandais. En Islande, l’usage de l’anglais a explosé ces dernières années notamment en raison de l’importance des nouvelles technologies....

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Paris, École Normale Supérieure (rue d’Ulm), salle Cavaillès

Samedi 15 et dimanche 16 décembre 2018

Colloque international co-organisé par Isabelle Grell-Borgomano (ITEM/ENS/CNRS) et Jean-Michel Devésa (Université de Limoges, EA EHIC)

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Source: The Conversation, 26 nov. 2018 Images of extreme weather and alarming headlines about climate change have become common. Last month, dire predictions about our warming planet from the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) were reported as distressing scenes from a devastating tsunami in Sulawesi, Indonesia were still in the news. As residents of Sulawesi...

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6th December 2018, MIM seminar room, 9th floor, Niagara, Nordenskiöldsgatan 1, Malmö University Abstract This study investigates educational language ecologies in two multilingual European countries. The main focus is put on teachers, the key decision-makers in implementation processes of policy documents, and their potential internal dilemmas concerning questions of language, in particular...

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Editors: Peter A. Kraus, Universität Augsburg François Grin, Université de Genève ISBN 9789027201362 This book proposes a multidisciplinary assessment of the impact of complex diversity on language politics and policies, analysing how the legacies of the old interact with the challenges of the new. Its main focus is on the interplay of multilingualism on the one hand, and the...

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The Conversation, August 8th 2018 After the Oxfam sexual exploitation scandal in Haiti hit the headlines earlier this year, 22 aid agencies published an open letter declaring that they would “take every step to right our wrongs and eradicate abuse in our industry”. They made a commitment to “listen and take action”. There is nothing new about NGOs claiming that they “listen” to...

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Delegata federale al plurilinguismo Berna, 11.06.2018 – Dall’11 al 15 giugno 2018 la Commissione nazionale per la promozione del bilinguismo e del multiculturalismo del Camerun è in visita di studio in Svizzera per uno scambio di opinioni su questioni inerenti al plurilinguismo e al multiculturalismo. La visita della delegazione camerunese si iscrive nel quadro di un progetto...

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23 February 2018Russia / WorldLanguage as a Soft Power Tool in Central Asia Chinese, Russian and English are all competing to be Central Asia’s lingua franca. This has a bearing on the region’s ties to the rest of the world, as well as an impact on domestic political culture. Author : Anna Tiido Joseph Nye, a political scientist at Harvard University, has discussed at length the role of...

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