Sumários
14 Novembro 2019, 12:00
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Tjerk Hagemeijer
- French, English, Spanish, and Portuguese as línguas francas: their historical rise (and decline); language organizations (e.g. francophonie, CPLP, Real Academia Española) and their role in the promotion and centralization of global languages.
Readings: Wright (2004), Ch. 7
Readings for next week: Muhr (2012), Muller de Oliveira (2016)
12 Novembro 2019, 12:00
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Tjerk Hagemeijer
- Characteristics of linguas francas and their consequences for language diversity
- Factors leading to the spread of linguas francas
- Examples of linguas francas (incl. pidgins)
- French as a global lingua franca; the role of francophonie
Readings: Wright (2004, chapters 5 and 7)
7 Novembro 2019, 12:00
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Hugo Canelas Cardoso
- Societal bilingualism:
a) Diglossia and shift;
b) Factors favouring linguistic maintenance or shift: 1) sociopolitical/demographic; 2) cultural; 3) linguistic;
c) Education: monolingual and bi/multilingual models;
d) The educational model of Portugal;
e) Bilingual education (the case of Timor);
f) The visualisation of multilingualism: linguistic landscapes.
Homework: Take a photograph of a multilingual landscape in Lisbon and send it to the instructor, for the construction of a collaborative page.
5 Novembro 2019, 12:00
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Hugo Canelas Cardoso
- Societal bilingualism:
a) Definitions of speech community;
b) Communities of practice;
c) Societal versus individual multilingualism - overlaps and mismatches;
d) Distinction between de jure mono-/multilingualism vs de facto mono-/multilingualism (case studies: Ghana, Austria, Belgium);
e) Roots of societal bilingualism;
f) The practice of code-switching as an indicator of societal bilingualism;
g) Diglossia and pseudo-diglossia (case studies: Singapore and Kenya).
31 Outubro 2019, 12:00
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Hugo Canelas Cardoso
Students took the first written test for evaluation.