Robert Greenberg:Perspectives on Language Policy and Language Planning——Understanding Current Trends From Europe and North America

文章来源:语言研究院 作者:10月25日 发布时间:2018-10-22 浏览次数:1510

上外研究生学术训练营(语言学类)

Perspectives on Language Policy and Language Planning: 

Understanding Current Trends From Europe and North America



讲座信息

讲座主讲Prof. Robert Greenberg

主办单位:语言研究院、中国外语战略研究中心、研究生院

讲座主持:赵蓉晖教授

讲座时间102513:30--15:00

讲座校区上海外国语大学虹口校区

讲座地点逸夫图书馆604


主讲人简介

Professor Robert Greenberg moved to New Zealand in 2013 from New York City to take up the role of Dean  of the Faculty of Arts and a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Auckland.   He received his PhD from  Yale University in 1991, and subsequently held teaching positions at Yale, Georgetown University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  He has served in academic leadership roles since 2000, most recently serving as a Dean and Professor at Hunter College of the City University of New York. 

Professor Greenberg is a specialist in the languages of Slavic world, especially those spoken in the Balkans and in the former Soviet Union.  He spent much of his research time in the former Yugoslavia, where  he explored the link between language, nationalism, and ethnic conflict.  His publications include numerous books and articles on the Slavic peoples and their languages,with a special emphasis on language policies, language and society, and language and politics.  His book,  

Language and Identity in the Balkans

(Oxford University Press, 2004, second revised and expanded edition, 2008), received an award in 2005 for the best book in Slavic Linguistics from the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages.  In 2010 he was the recipient of the William Clyde DeVane medal for excellence in teaching and scholarship at Yale University.

报告提要

In this presentation, Professor Greenberg explores several theoretical perspectives on language policy and planning beginning with a framework on how language conflicts can be managed, and moving on to some of the sociolinguistic perspectiveson this topic. The theoretical perspectives are then applied to case studies from North America and Europe.  Comparisons are made between language policies in the United States and Canada,and these are further contrasted with the policies being implemented in Europe.  The presentation concludes with an analysis of the situation in the former Yugoslavia especially regarding matters of linguistic reciprocity across new national boundaries in the Balkan region.