Vortrag Aneta Pavlenko
Mittwoch, 2. März 2011, Institut für Mehrsprachigkeit, 17.15 - 18.45, Raum K0.02
Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Aneta Pavlenko, Temple University, College of Education
Titel: Language rights versus speakers' rights in multilingual contexts.
Zusammenfassung:
The key purpose of this talk is to consider the issue of linguistic rights in a context where two conceptions of rights, the rights of a language and the rights of speakers, come into direct conflict. To exemplify this conflict I will examine language policy debates in two post-Soviet countries, Latvia and Ukraine. I will begin with a brief overview of Soviet language policies and their outcomes. Then I will discuss similarities and differences in language management dilemmas faced by Latvia and Ukraine after the dissolution of the USSR. Subsequently, I will focus on ways in which Latvian and Ukrainian language policy makers and their Western supporters justified the transition from official bilingualism to official monolingualism in the two countries. Last but not least, I will consider reasons for which the policies that shaped this transition have been defended in the field of sociolinguistics and critiqued in other fields, such as political science and education.
Vortrag in englischer Sprache.