Dear colleagues,
The first USYD Department of Linguistics Research Seminar this semester is co-organized with the Department of Italian Studies and the European Studies Program. Please note that time and venue are different from the usual.
Dr Kristine Horner
Reader in Luxembourg Studies & Multilingualism
Director of the Centre for Luxembourg Studies at the University of Sheffield
Constructing the Ideal Citizen-Speaker as Monolingual? Language as Site of Struggle in Multilingual Luxembourg
Thu, 11 August 2016, 16.15-17.45
SLC Common Room, Room 536, 5th level, Brennan MacCallum Building A18, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006
You will find a short CV of our speaker below.
Best,
Sebastian
CV
Kristine Horner is Reader in Luxembourg Studies and Multilingualism at the University of Sheffield, where she is also Director of the Centre for Luxembourg Studies. She has published widely in the areas of language politics, language ideologies and multilingualism, including special issues of Language Problems and Language Planning (John Benjamins, 2009) and the Journal of Germanic Linguistics (Cambridge University Press, 2011). Her most recent major publications are the books Introducing Multilingualism: A Social Approach (co-authored with J-J. Weber; Routledge, 2012) and Multilingualism and Mobility in Europe: Policies and Practices (co-edited with I. de Saint-Georges and J-J. Weber; Peter Lang, 2014). Currently, she is writing a monograph on language politics and the discourses of endangerment, integration and citizenship in Luxembourg and leading the Worldwide Universities Network on Multilingualism and Mobility in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
Dr Sebastian Fedden | Lecturer in Linguistics
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