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ANNOUNCEMENT<br>
<big><font color="#990000"><b>5th International Language Management
Symposium:</b></font><b><br>
</b><font color="#cc0000"><b>Interests and Power in Language
Management</b></font></big><br>
Dates: September 12-14, 2017 (Tue, Wed & Thu)<br>
Venue: University of Regensburg, Faculty of Arts, Regensburg,
Germany<br>
<br>
Building upon various approaches in Language Policy and Planning
(LPP), particularly Language Management Theory (LMT), the Fifth
Language Management Symposium welcomes papers highlighting interests
and power in language management.<br>
<br>
<b>Rationale</b><br>
Interests and power have been long acknowledged as important factors
in various approaches in LPP. Despite this fact, it is not an
exaggeration to claim that they have been devoted little focused
attention compared to other factors such as motivation in or goals
of LPP. Though the foundational paper of LMT published by B. H.
Jernudd and J. V. Neustupný in 1987, entitled “Language planning:
for whom?”, was devoted to the issue of interests, this topic has
not been taken up and elaborated upon even in this LPP research
tradition. The aim of this symposium, therefore, is to focus on the
themes of interests and power and discuss their role and use in
language management.<br>
<br>
<b>Call for individual papers</b><br>
We invite proposals for papers which reflect any topic related to
language management and particularly, the special focus of the
symposium. Questions for discussion include (but are not limited
to):<br>
• types of personal or group interests involved in language
management;<br>
• divergent/conflicting interests in language management;<br>
• masking, revealing and legitimizing interests in language
management;<br>
• power, powerlessness and empowerment in asserting various kinds of
interests;<br>
• power and interests in various phases of linguistic, communication
and socio-cultural management;<br>
• power and interests in management of speaking in particular
interactions;<br>
• sources of power (cultural, social, political, economic or others)
that shape language management;<br>
• power to propose, formulate, defend, participate in or implement a
language policy;<br>
• forming coalitions of actors in language management;<br>
• the use and management of power to change/maintain language or
communication;<br>
• ways of establishing or enforcing norms of language and
communication<br>
<br>
Abstracts (300-500 words) should be sent to the address below by
January 20, 2017. The abstracts will be evaluated by the scientific
committee and the authors will be informed by e-mail by February 28,
2017.<br>
<br>
<b>Abstract submission</b><br>
Abstracts should be e-mailed to: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:symposium.interests-power@ur.de">symposium.interests-power@ur.de</a><br>
Registration fee: free of charge<br>
Notification of acceptance of proposals: February 28, 2017<br>
<br>
<b>Invited speakers</b><br>
Jeroen Darquennes (Université de Namur, Belgique)<br>
Björn H. Jernudd (independent scholar, Washington, D.C.)<br>
Goro Christoph Kimura (Sophia University, Tokyo)<br>
<br>
<b>Scientific committee</b><br>
Nor Liza Ali (University Teknologi Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur)<br>
Vít Dovalil (Charles University, Prague)<br>
Lisa Fairbrother (Sophia University, Tokyo)<br>
Sau Kuen Fan (Kanda University of International Studies, Tokyo)<br>
István Lanstyák (Comenius University, Bratislava)<br>
Hidehiro Muraoka (Chiba University)<br>
Marek Nekula (University of Regensburg)<br>
Jiří Nekvapil (Charles University, Prague)<br>
Tamah Sherman (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)<br>
<br>
<b>Local organizing committee</b><br>
Marek Nekula (chair)<br>
Björn Hansen<br>
Jiří Nekvapil<br>
Paul Rössler<br>
Kateřina Šichová<br>
Marián Sloboda<br>
Halina Zawiszová<br>
<br>
About the Language Management Symposium series “Noting or noticing”
being an essential condition for the start of language management,
the first international symposium on language management was devoted
to “probing of the concept of noting”, and held at Monash University
(Clayton, Melbourne) in 2008. The second symposium addressing “norm
diversity and language management in globalized settings” took place
at Waseda University (Tokyo) in 2011. The third symposium held at
Charles University (Prague) in 2013 focused on methodology used in
the investigation of language management. In 2015, Sophia University
(Tokyo) hosted the fourth symposium devoted to reconsidering ‘the
process’ in language management. These symposia were closely
connected with the conceptual tools of LMT in the vein of J. V.
Neustupný and B. H. Jernudd.<br>
<br>
Though the announced fifth symposium on interests and power follows
up on this research tradition, it is also intended to open new
horizons and thus welcomes incentives from other approaches in LPP
as well. <br>
For further information on symposia held so far, see <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://languagemanagement.ff.cuni.cz/">http://languagemanagement.ff.cuni.cz/</a><br>
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