Dear Galicianists,

If you are attending the MLA Annual Conference 2019 in Chicago this week, or if you are in the US midwest these days, plese take a look at the Galician Studies session (January 6 2019, 10:15am). This session attempts to discuss the current situation of the Galician language, on the 35th anniversary of passing its Lei de Normalización Lingüística.

653: Can Language Shift Be Reversed? Insights from and for Galician

 10:15 AM–11:30 AM Sunday, Jan 6, 2019

 Sheraton Grand - Erie

Presenting Authors (3)
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Session Information

Presentations

1: Immigrant ‘New Speakers’ of Galician: Challenging Monolingual Normativity from the Bottom Up

Nicola Bermingham,  U of Liverpool

2: Galician in a Globalized World: Between a Declaration of Officiality and Inactivity in Linguistic Protection

Alba Nogueira-López,  U of Santiago de Compostela

3: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Language Policies in Galicia: Can School Alone Reverse Language Shift?

Gabriel Rei-Doval,  U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Presider

Gabriel Rei-Doval,  U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

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Forum SessionsLLC Galician

More information available at https://mla19.org/event/member/522781.

Also, if you are in the Chicago area and want to take place in the MLA Galician Studies dinner, please let me know. We will get together for dinner on Saturday 5th in the evening in downtown Chicago.

Saudiña e beizóns,

Gabriel

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