Robert Phillipson

Robert Phillipson
Professor emeritus
Robert Phillipson

Institut for Internationale Sprogstudier og Vidensteknologi

Dalgas Have 15, 2Ø.062
DK - 2000 Frederiksberg

Tlf.: +45 3815 3150
Fax:+45 3815 3845
E-mail: rp.isv@cbs.dk



Link til denne hjemmeside: www.cbs.dk/staff/phillipson


Engelsk sprog. Engelsk som magtsprog globalt og i Danmark. Sprogpolitik i EU og medlemsstaterne. Sprog og magt, sproglige rettigheder, sprogimperialisme. Macrosociolingivistik. Sprogindlæring og sprogpædagogik.

Udvidet CV

Primære forskningsområder

  • Det engelske sprogs rolle i den moderne verden, grundene til sprogets udvidelse og konsekvenserne for andre sprog
  • Sprogimperialisme, sprog og magt, sproglig dominans; postkoloniale, postimperiale og neoimperiale sprog
  • Sproglige rettigheder, sproglige menneskerettigheder, sproglig retfærd
  • Sprogpolitik i EU institutionerne og i interaktionen mellem EU og medlemsstaterne
  • Sprogpædagogik, indlæring af engelsk


Udvalgte publikationer

Centrale Bogudgivelser

English-only Europe? Challenging language policy, London and New York: Routledge, 2003. Også udgivet på Esperanto, 2004.

Rights to language: equity, power and education, New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (redaktør, 50 bidragsydere), 2000.

Language, a right and a resource. Approaching linguistic human rights (redigeret sammen med Miklós Kontra, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas og Tibor Váradi), Budapest: Central European University Press, 1999.

Linguistic human rights: overcoming linguistic discrimination, redigeret sammen med Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1994.

Learner language and language learning (sammen med Claus Færch og Kirsten Haastrup), Multilingual Matters og Gyldendal, 1984.

Nye udgivelser sommeren 2009:
Phillipson, Robert 2009. Linguistic imperialism continued. Udgivet af Routledge i New Yórk og London, og af Oreint Blackwell i New Delhi, Indien for syv sydasiatiske lande. Detaliler:

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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

Artikler (disponibel til downloading)



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. The new linguistic imperial order: English as a European Union lingua franca or lingua frankensteinia? In ‘Unions: past-present-future’, Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies, Vol. 1: Issue 2, 189-2003



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.

Mauritius Guardian Weekly

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.


Samlet publikationsliste (pdf)



Sidst opdateret af Linda Støckel 08.02.2010