Robert Phillipson
Professor emeritus
Robert Phillipson
Department of International Language Studies and Computational Linguistics
Fax:+45 3815 3845
E-mail: rp.isv@cbs.dk
Robert Phillipson
Department of International Language Studies and Computational Linguistics
Dalgas Have 15, 2Ø.062
DK - 2000 Frederiksberg
Tel.: +45 3815 3171DK - 2000 Frederiksberg
Fax:+45 3815 3845
E-mail: rp.isv@cbs.dk
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Article
Angles Phillipson
English in higher education, panacea or pandemic? In English in Denmark: Language policy, internationalization and university teaching, volume 9 of Angles of the English-speaking world, ed. Peter Harder. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press and the University of Copenhagen, 2009, 29-57.
English in higher education, panacea or pandemic? In English in Denmark: Language policy, internationalization and university teaching, volume 9 of Angles of the English-speaking world, ed. Peter Harder. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press and the University of Copenhagen, 2009, 29-57.
Cambridge Handbook colonialism imperialism 3
Imperialism and colonialism. In The Cambridge Handbook of Language Policy, ed. Bernard Spolsky. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press.
Imperialism and colonialism. In The Cambridge Handbook of Language Policy, ed. Bernard Spolsky. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press.
Discurso Sociedad English Phillipson
Americanisation and Englishisation as processes of global occupation. Discurso & Sociedad.
Americanisation and Englishisation as processes of global occupation. Discurso & Sociedad.
Macaulay alive and kicking
Macaulay alive and kicking: how linguistic imperialism continues, to appear in an anthology edited by Giridhar Rao, Orient Blackswan, Delhi.
Macaulay alive and kicking: how linguistic imperialism continues, to appear in an anthology edited by Giridhar Rao, Orient Blackswan, Delhi.
EU Languages Diversity Unity
The EU and languages: diversity in what unity? In Linguistic diversity and European democracy, edited by Anne Lise Kjær and Silvia Adamo. Farnham: Ashgate, 57-74.
The EU and languages: diversity in what unity? In Linguistic diversity and European democracy, edited by Anne Lise Kjær and Silvia Adamo. Farnham: Ashgate, 57-74.
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:
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.), 2009.Social justice through multilingual education. Bristol: Multilingual Matters. Details: http://tiny.cc/6eRkp
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A slightly larger version of this is published in New Delhi by Orient Blackswan for seven 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
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
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.
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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.
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.
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).
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
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
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Eduardo Mendieta, Robert Phillipson and Tove Skutnabb-Kangas. English in the geopolitics of knowledge. Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses.
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.
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
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.
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 11/08/2011
Videopræsentation
Interview with Robert Phillipson at the Open University of Catalonia in connection with the award of the UNESCO Linguapax prize 2010.
