Migration, polycentric identities, language(s) and power First International Seminar on Language and Migration

Language and Migration Network
AILA (International Association of Applied Linguistics)
Migration, polycentric identities, language(s) and power
First International Seminar on Language and Migration
19th-20th September 2007,
Centre for Social Studies, School of Economics of the University of Coimbra

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http://www.ces.uc.pt/misc/mpilp.php This seminar launches the discussion by exploring interdisciplinary links between language studies and social sciences in terms of theory, methodology and practice. How can sociological, political and critical perspectives coming from the South offer novel ways of understanding the complexity of language use in migrant and other hybrid situations. Issues to be discussed in this seminar may include:
Polycentricity and scales;
Rival globalisations and alternative epistemologies resisting dominant narratives by researching perspectives from "the ground";
Conflicting political and ideological constructions of language, of languages, of multilingualism, multilingual distribution and multilingual space;
Methodological issues in using social and critical linguistics and linguistic ethnography to research in hybrid, intercultural and migrant contexts and
Ways in which these affect practices, political actions and political agendas of language researchers.
Invited plenary speakers Kanavillil Rajagopalan [ University of Campinas, Brazil]
Jan Blommaert [Institute of Education, University of London, UK]
José Manuel Pureza [CES, Coimbra, Portugal]
Graça Capinha [CES, Coimbra, Portugal]
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