Robert Phillipson
Robert Phillipson
Department of International Language Studies and Computational Linguistics
Dalgas Have 15, 2Ø.062
DK - 2000 Frederiksberg
Fax:+45 3815 3845
E-mail: rp.isv@cbs.dk
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The English language. The role of English in globalisation and in Denmark. Language policy in the EU and in member states. Language and power, language rights, linguistic imperialism. Macro-sociolinguistics. Language learning, language pedagogy.
Primary research areas
- The role of English in the modern world, reasons for its expansion, and implications for other languages
- Linguistic imperialism, language and power, linguistic dominance; postcolonial, postimperial, and neoimperial languages
- Language rights, linguistic human rights, linguistic justice
- Language policy in EU institutions and in the interaction between the EU and member states
- Language pedagogy, the learning of English
Selected publications
Selected Publications
English-only Europe? Challenging language policy, London and New York: Routledge, 2003. Also published in translation into Esperanto, 2004.
Rights to language: equity, power and education, New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (editor, 50 contributors), 2000.
Language, a right and a resource. Approaching linguistic human rights (edited with Miklós Kontra, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and Tibor Váradi), Budapest: Central European University Press, 1999.
Linguistic human rights: overcoming linguistic discrimination, edited with Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1994
.Linguistic imperialism, Oxford University Press, 1992 (fifth printing, 2000, also published in Shanghai).
Learner language and language learning (with Claus Færch and Kirsten Haastrup), Multilingual Matters and Gyldendal, 1984.
New books being published in the summer of 2009
Phillipson, Robert 2009, Linguistic imperialism continued. Published by Routledge in New York and London, and by Orient Blackwell in New Delhi, India for seven South Asian sountries. Details:
Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove, Ajit Mohanty, Minati Panda and Robert Phillipson (eds.), in press.Social justice through multilingual education. Bristol: Multilingual Matters. Details: http://tiny.cc/6eRkp .
A slightly larger version of this is published in New Delhi by Orient Blackswan for six South Asian countries as Multilingual education for social justice: Globalising the local. Mohanty, Ajit, Minati Panda, Robert Phillipson and Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (eds.), 2009. Details:
http://www.orientblackswan.com/display.asp?categoryID=26&isbn=978-81-250-3698-2&detail=1
Articles (available for downloading)
A list of publications is available below the list of articles
Phillipson, Robert 2009. ’Some partners are more equal than others’, presented at the Bamako International Forum on Multilingualism, organized by the African Academy of Languages ( www.acalan.org ), Bamako, Mali, 19-21 January 2009.
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Phillipson, Robert 2009. Is there any unity in diversity in language policies national and supranational? English as an EU lingua franca or lingua frankensteinia? In National and European Language Policies. Contributions to the Annual Conference 2008 of EFNIL in Riga, ed. Gerhard Stickel. Bern: Peter Lang Verlag, 145- 154.
Phillipson, Robert 2008. Language policy and education in the European Union. In Language policy and political issues in education, volume 1 of Encyclopedia of Language and Education, 2nd edition, ed. Stephen May and Nancy H. Hornberger. New York: Springer, 255-265.
Ecology art final 2006 Pragmatics
Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove and Robert Phillipson 2008. A human rights perspective on language ecology. In Ecology of Language, volume 9 of Encyclopedia of Language and Education, 2nd edition, ed. Angela Creese, Peter Martin and Nancy H. Hornberger. New York: Springer, 3-14.
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Phillipson, Robert 2007. English in Europe: threat or promise? In Language, power and identity politics, ed. Máiréad Nic Craith. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 65-82.
Summary English-only
A summary of the book English-only Europe? Challenging language policy (Routledge 2003).
BAAL revised Phillipson
Figuring out the Englishisation of Europe. In Reconfiguring Europe: The Contribution of Applied Linguistics, ed. Constant Leung and Jennifer Jenkins. London: Equinox, and British Association for Applied Linguistics, 65-86, 2006
Revista Canaria final
Eduardo Mendieta, Robert Phillipson and Tove Skutnabb-Kangas. English in the geopolitics of knowledge. Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses.
Wizard crow
Reviewing a book and how it relates to ‘global’ English, Wizard of the crow, by Ngûgî wa Thiong’o, The European English Messenger, May 2007.
Alain Ah-Vee, Lindsey Collen, Robert Phillipson and Tove Skutnabb-Kangas 2009. Mauritius calls for Kreol. Guardian Weekly electronic, 9 December 2009. http://www.guardianweekly.co.uk/?page=editorial&id=1381&catID=18
Madrid Sociolinguistic Studies
English: from British empire to corporate empire. Sociolinguistic Studies
Review article Alderson
The politics and the personal in language education: the state of which art? Review article on The politics of language education. Individuals and institutions, edited by J. Charles Alderson. And a closing word after Alderson’s response. Language and education, 2010/2.
Asian EFL PhillipsonDisciplines of English and disciplining by English, Asian EFL Journal (electronic), December 2009.
Last updated by Linda Støckel 24/02/2010
ILCL News
Linguapax Award to Dr Robert Phillipson
The Jury of the 2010 Linguapax Award has decided to grant the prize to DR. ROBERT PHILLIPSON
the Linguapax Award is granted every year to acknowledge the
outstanding work of linguists, researchers and activists in the active preservation of linguistic diversity
in terms of the promotion of peace.
Mere information
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DK-2000 Frederiksberg
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