The Multidisciplinary Approaches in Language Policy and Planning Conference
The Multidisciplinary Approaches in Language Policy and Planning (LPP) conference brings scholars from different disciplines (language education, anthropology, political studies, social sciences, economics, linguistics, and more) whose work centers on language policy and planning at different levels: local, national and/or international. LPP2020 will be co-hosted by Dr. Mela Sarkar and Dr. Angelica Galante at McGill University in Montréal, Canada. Montréal is the largest city in Québec, the only province in Canada where French is the official language. The city, however, is linguistically, culturally and ethnically diverse, a fact that contributes to the city’s multilingual nature. As such, LPP2020 will be introducing the Plurilingual Experience: we will accept submissions of abstracts written in English or French (Canada’s official languages) but papers can be delivered in any language, and presenters will be able to translanguage if they wish.
Call for Papers:
We invite papers, discussion sessions, colloquia, and poster presentations that approach language policy from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives, and in a variety of contexts, from the local/institutional to the national/global. We welcome topics such as (but not limited to):
Monolingual, bilingual, multilingual, and plurilingual policies
Heritage language policies
Indigenous languages policies
Multicultural and intercultural policies
Official & non-official language policies
Language-in-education policies/school policies
Language attrition and language revitalization
Language policy and political economy
Language policy, globalization, and super diversity
Language policy and the workplace
Language policy and lingua franca
Language policy and indignity
Language policies and transnational communities
Signed languages policies and Deaf studies
Language policy and anti-racism/anti-oppression
Language policy and political theory
National identities and language policies
Community and family policies
Language policy and economics
Research methods of language policy inquiry