{"id":30,"date":"2023-02-15T12:26:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T17:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lpp\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2025-07-08T12:34:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T16:34:59","slug":"2024-archives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lpp\/2024-archives\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

We gratefully thank units at Carleton University for their generous financial support for our Conference: the Department of French, the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the School of Language and Discourse Studies (SLaDS), the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), the office of the Provost and Vice-President (Academic), and the office of the Vice-President (Research and International). The organization of this Conference is also made possible by a grant from Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.<\/p>\n

Nous remercions chaleureusement la g\u00e9n\u00e9rosit\u00e9 des diff\u00e9rents commanditaires de notre <\/em>colloque \u00e0 l’Universit\u00e9 Carleton : the Department of French, the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the School of Language and Discourse Studies (SLaDS), the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), the office of the Provost and Vice-President (Academic), and the office of the Vice-President (Research and International). L’organisation de ce colloque est \u00e9galement rendue possible gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 une subvention du Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada.<\/i><\/p>\n

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2024 Call for papers is now closed\u00a0<\/strong>
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2024 – Call for papers<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Multidisciplinary Approaches in Language Policy and Planning 2024:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Diversities, Discourses, and Digitalization<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 2024 edition of the conference series Multidisciplinary Approaches in Language Policy and Planning will be held at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada). This marks a return to an in-person conference mode and, as such, the conference theme is 3D: Diversities, Discourses, and Digitalization. With this theme, we ask the following questions: How are diversities addressed by language policies? How is discourse used to design, interpret, implement and evaluate policies, on the one hand, and to investigate, understand, critique, and improve language policy and planning, on the other? And how does language policy and planning evolve in the digital contexts that make up our online environments?<\/p>\n

Language policy was developed as a field as nation states were forming in the postcolonial era of the 1950s. In the 1980s, it faced a period of severe criticism and reemerged as a critical and interdisciplinary field, tackling urgent language policy issues in the early 1990s, including new waves of nationalism, the growing presence of globalization, and the exponential growth of the Internet. Today, language policy and planning faces issues relating to online environments, digital texts, and contexts that have been dubbed \u201cpostnational\u201d (Fornan, 2017), \u201csuperdiverse\u201d (Blommaert and Rampton, 2011), and \u201cpost-multilingual\u201d (Li Wei, 2018). In such a context, the importance of language policy to stave off the decline of Indigenous and minoritized languages and to protect the rights of diverse social groups seems critical, especially in an era when discourses rapidly become polarizing. This conference proposes three axes through which to interrogate the nature, contexts, and future of language policy: diversities, discourses, and digitalization.<\/p>\n

By \u201cDiversities\u201d, we refer to the complex and intersecting needs and rights of different languages and language groups in the 21st century. For example, in the Canadian context we consider \u201cdiversities\u201d to refer not only to speakers of Canada\u2019s two official languages but also to speakers of Indigenous languages and heritage languages. How can such diversities be addressed within a language policy approach? What is the role of language assessment and language policy and planning with respect to contemporary international mobility?<\/p>\n

By \u201cDiscourses\u201d, we address the \u201cdiscursive turn\u201d whereby many disciplines within the social sciences have turned to the study of discourse to understand various social issues. The notion of \u201cdiscourse\u201d has been valuable for our understanding of how language issues come into existence, are discussed and incorporated into public agendas, debated and acted upon, and how language policies are implemented and evaluated. A growing body of language policy research has adopted discourse analytic approaches. How can and should discourse be addressed within a language policy and planning approach?<\/p>\n

By \u201cDigitalization\u201d, we address the increasingly complex online environment in which language is and can be planned and managed. In the past, where media systems were previously used to unify linguistic and social diversity and create a sense of national identity, today, digital communication has the potential to do the opposite. How can languages be managed, how can language rights be respected, and how can diverse needs be met in an online environment?<\/p>\n

We welcome abstracts on the three conference themes, or any theme related to language policy and planning, such as (but not limited to):<\/p>\n