Conference on Language and Power Approaching
The Claire and John Radway Research Workshop on Cognition and Language, a function of the Stanford Humanities Center, will be presenting a conference this upcoming 21 November on Language and Power (unfortunately concurrent with CUSP!). Presentations include:
Kwai Ng (UCSD, Sociology): Legal Formalism as Linguistic Power: Observations from the Bilingual Common Law Courtrooms in Hong Kong
Miyako Inoue (Stanford, Anthropology)
Lev Michael (Berkeley, Linguistics): Power relations in language shift and revitalization: The case of Iquito
David Laitin (Stanford, Political Science): Linguistic Nationalism as a Consumption Item
H. Samy Alim (UCLA, Anthropology)
Check out the Language and Power Conference website for a schedule and abstracts.