Política de Língua e Gestão Linguística: Teoria e Metodologia
This seminar provides a theoretical strengthening of the intersections between Linguistics and Language Policy, considering how sociolinguistic relations are built in the spaces of speaker interaction. Thus, the Seminar intends to discuss the relationship between the different geopolitical spaces of Portuguese, also considering the issues of multilingualism and plurilingualism in plural societies.
Language Policy, Language Management, Diversity, Global Languages, Multilingualism, Portuguese Language.
At the end of this seminar students should be able to:
- Explain the nature, relevance and purposes of Language Policies;
- Analyze and apply the acquired concepts to concrete situations and problems in a social and geopolitical framework characterized by globalization and linguistic diversity;
- Describe and distinguish the different plans of intervention (in national and international contexts), strategies and social consequences of language policies and language management.
1. The scientific domain of Language Policy and Language Management;
1.1. Language Policy and Social Change;
1.2. Language planning or language management?;
2. Language policy and public policy;
2.1. Language Policy within the framework of educational policies;
2.2. Provision of foreign languages in the education system from an economic perspective;
3. Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Plurilingualism and social impact.
AA. VV. (2004) A Língua Portuguesa: Presente e Futuro. Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.
Calvet, Louis-Jean. (2002). Le marché aux langues – Les effets linguistiques de la mondialisation. Paris: Plon.
Calvet, Louis-Jean. (2007). As Políticas Linguísticas. Florianópolis/São Paulo: IPOL/Parábola Editorial.
Cooper, Robert L. (1989). Language Planning and Social Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Filipe, Mário (2021). Aspetos de Política de Língua e Gestão Linguística. Notas sobre Portugal e a Gestão Linguística da língua portuguesa, Col. Ciência e Cultura, n.º 15. Lisboa: Universidade Aberta.
Hult, Francis M., e Johnson, David Cassels (Eds.) (2015). Research Methods in Language Policy and Planning. Chichester: Wiley Blackwell.
Johnson, David Cassels (2013). Language Policy. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Kaplan, Robert B., e Baldauf Jr., Richard B. (1997). Language Planning, from practice to theory. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
Ricento, Thomas (Ed.) (2006). An Introduction to Language Policy Theory and Method. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
Spolsky, Bernard (2009). Language Management. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Spolsky, Bernard (2021). Rethinking Language Policy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
E-learning
The assessment includes carrying out work and regular and relevant participation in the various forums throughout the semester.
Knowledge of English and French languages is required to read the fundamental bibliography.