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MULTILINGUALISM IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE
LINEE (Languages in a Network of
European Excellence) is a scientific network aimed at investigating
linguistic diversity in Europe in a coherent and interdisciplinary
way. Following on a very successful international conference on New
Challenges for Multilingualism organized by LINEE in 2010 in
Dubrovnik, it has been decided to organise the second international
conference in 2012 again in Dubrovnik to continue to
critically examine the concept of multilingualism in the context of
complex cultural and linguistic diversity characterized by mobility,
migration and minorities, and to propose further theoretical and
research perspectives.
The objective of this second
international conference is to provide a forum for researchers
studying multilingualism as social practice in various public spaces
to rethink the concept of ‘language’, and its role in
fostering social cohesion. The conference will gather researchers
who investigate plurilingual communication from a perspective that
seeks to critically address power relations and includes different
types of public spaces as concrete empirical settings, each with
their specific contribution to communication across linguistic and
cultural boundaries, such as: public places (shops, markets, tourist
sites); field of economy and work-organizations; functional/sectoral
public arenas of differentiated service-provision (such as
education, health-care, administration etc.) and media.
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