Dr. Joseph DeChicchis
Professor, School of Policy Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University
 

KGU SPS course description (シラバス)
 

IMPORTANT DATES:

• The comprehensive exam for this class will be held during the final class meeting of the semester, on Wednesday, 13 July 2011, in the regular classroom at KSC. You must take this exam to get credit for this course. The exam will be a multiple-choice exam. You may use a dictionary during the exam, but you may not consult your notes during the exam.

Follow these links to class notes:

• general notes on multilingualism
• language families Old World map
• language families map key
• ethnic mixing (substrates)
• South Africa
• Kurdistan
• four types of multilingual communities
• Ainu language article [images]  Ainu language article [HTML]
• "Tagengo" article (written in Japanese) [images]
• "Precedents" article [HTML]
• Taiwan language article [HTML]
• Taiwan maps
• Belize, Guatemala, Honduras: Language Situations [images]
• Belize to Costa Rica language map
• Guatemalan language map
• final study questions: language areas
• final study questions: patterns and policies
• final study questions: language geography
• screen notes: monolingual multilingual bilingual; diglossia; first-second fluent-halting etc.

Follow these links for U.S. and Canada policies:

• Canadian language policy
• MLA language maps for the U.S.A.
• TESOL language policy positions
• English Only at Geno's

Follow these links for EU language facts and policies:

• EU treaty languages
• EU Commissioner for multilingualism
• EU Action Plan for languages
• endangered languages of Europe
• languages of the EU
• Catalan
• Pompeu Fabra i Poch
• Swiss languages
• Three key imperatives of language policy

Follow these links for UN and other transnational declarations and policies:

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948, cf. Article 2)
• Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities (1992)
• Universal Declaration of Linguistic Rights (1996)
• To speak or not to speak (1997)

Follow this link for the presentation about English as the indigenous language of Ogasawara:

• The first language of Ogasawara: English as an indigenous language of Japan [Quicktime]

Follow these links for the presentation about making policy for Ryukyuan heritage languages:

• Crafting and implementing a language policy for the Ryukyus (1) [Quicktime]
• Crafting and implementing a language policy for the Ryukyus (2) [Quicktime]
• Crafting and implementing a language policy for the Ryukyus (Ainu) [Quicktime]