Research
Research - Researchers
Below we present a few researchers who are active in the field of linguistic democracy. If you know about some other researcher who would merit a presentation, or if you consider yourself to be one of them, we would be most grateful if you would write to admin@nitobe.info.
François GRIN
A Swiss citizen; acquired his PhD at the University of Geneva in 1989. He worked as a researcher and instructor at the Universities of Montreal (Canada) and Washington (Seattle, USA). He was an assistant director of the European Centre for Minority Languages in Flensburg (Germany) for three years. Currently he is a professor of economics at the Faculty of Interpreters and Translators at the University of Geneva and assistant director of the Office of Research in Education in Geneva. He is the author of more than 200 publications on language economics, language policy and analysis of policy in education. Some examples:
- 2005 l'Enseignement des langues étrangères comme politique publique, commandité par le Haut Conseil de l'évaluation de l'école (HCéé, Ministère de l'éducation nationale)
- 2003 "Economics and language planning", Current Issues in Language Planning, 4(1), 1-66.
- 2003 Language policy evaluation and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. Londres: Palgrave, 281 p
Home page: http://www.geneve.ch/.../francoisgrin_eng.html
Robert Phillipson
Brit, living in Denmark; he was born in 1942. PhD at the University of Amsterdam in 1990. Research professor at Copenhagen Business School. Until and including 2001 he has published 193 bibliographical items (articles and books), e.g.:
- "Linguistic imperialism" - Oxford University Press (365 pp) 1992 - Fourth printing 1997
- "English-only Europe? Challenging language policy" - London and New York: Routledge 2003 (240 pp.)
Research interests: The global role of English, the causes of its expansion, and whose interests it serves in different parts of the world. - linguistic imperialism, linguistic hierarchies, linguistic hegemony, language planning, linguistic human rights, language policy, multilingualism in the EU, linguistic pedagogy
Home page: www.cbs.dk/staff/phillipson
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
From Finland (with two mother tongues, Finnish and Swedish), living in Denmark; she was born in 1940. Official Interpreter and Translator examination in Helsinki in 1975. Licentiate of Philosophy in 1967 at University of Helsinki, Dr. Phil. at Roskilde University in 1987. Guest researcher at Roskilde University, part-time reader (docent) at Åbo Akademi University, working at its branch in Vasa, Finland. Her publication list includes about 450 items, among them 21 books, e.g.:
- "Linguistic genocide in education - or worldwide diversity and human rights?" - Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2000 (818 pp.)
Research interests: Linguistic human rights - education for minorities - language and power - links between biological diversity and linguistic diversity - bilingualism - linguistic policy - the global expansion of English, threatening other languages - integration of minorities in majority societies - ethnicity - racism (including linguistically founded racism) - gender roles
Home page: http://akira.ruc.dk/~tovesk/