BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:16401-0a097c23a4679498993db8226798e401@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260608T220212Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250926T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250926T103000 SUMMARY:Center for Language Science Speaker Series: Tommaso M. Milani DESCRIPTION:\nIn this talk\, Tommaso Milani will present how a discourse -ethnographic approach to Critical Discourse Analysis (Krzyzanowski 2011 \, 2017) can be applied to language and education policy research (see i n particular Wodak and Safski 2018). He will begin by outlining the meth odological steps of this approach. He will then move on to an empirical illustration of such steps. He will do so by taking language and educati on policy in Sweden as a case in point. Sweden has consistently been pre sented as a typical example of ‘multicultural pluralist citizenship’ (Ko opmans and Statham 1999: 661)\; that is\, a context in which ‘the state not only offers easy access to full social and political rights\, but ac tually sponsors ethnic difference by recognizing immigrant groups as ‘et hnic minorities’ with their own cultural rights and privileges’ (661). S cholars have argued that\, within such a multicultural haven\, ‘citizens hip is largely vacuous of popular sentimental registers’ and ‘does not s tir up vigorous public debate and nationalist emotions’ (Jensen\, Fernan dez\, and Brochmann 2017: 618). Such a conclusion has been drawn on the basis of analyses of Swedish legislation\, which indeed promotes multili ngualism and multiculturalism. Against this backdrop\, the aim of this p resentation is to challenge this rather “rosy” picture. Drawing on a dis course-ethnographic approach to CDA\, he will illustrate how Swedish lan guage and education policy has changed from espousing a multilingual eth os to promoting monolingualism\; He will also show how such a discursive shift in Swedish language policy has had an impact on the lived experie nces of migrants.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/c ls-speaker-series-tommaso-m-milani/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

In this talk, T ommaso Milani will present how a discourse-ethnographic approach to Crit ical Discourse Analysis (Krzyzanowski 2011, 2017) can be applied to lang uage and education policy research (see in particular Wodak and Safski 2 018). He will begin by outlining the methodological steps of this approa ch. He will then move on to an empirical illustration of such steps. He will do so by taking language and education policy in Sweden as a case i n point. Sweden has consistently been presented as a typical example of ‘multicultural pluralist citizenship’ (Koopmans and Statham 1999: 661); that is, a context in which ‘the state not only offers easy access to fu ll social and political rights, but actually sponsors ethnic difference by recognizing immigrant groups as ‘ethnic minorities’ with their own cu ltural rights and privileges’ (661). Scholars have argued that, within s uch a multicultural haven, ‘citizenship is largely vacuous of popular se ntimental registers’ and ‘does not stir up vigorous public debate and na tionalist emotions’ (Jensen, Fernandez, and Brochmann 2017: 618). Such a conclusion has been drawn on the basis of analyses of Swedish legislati on, which indeed promotes multilingualism and multiculturalism. Against this backdrop, the aim of this presentation is to challenge this rather “rosy” picture. Drawing on a discourse-ethnographic approach to CDA, he will illustrate how Swedish language and education policy has changed fr om espousing a multilingual ethos to promoting monolingualism; He will a lso show how such a discursive shift in Swedish language policy has had an impact on the lived experiences of migrants.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/cls-speaker-series-tommaso-m-mila ni/

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