Plenary title: From Language Assimilation to Language Promotion across Five Nation-States: Insights from Research in Kurdistan
Dr. Jaffer Sheyholislami is professor of applied linguistics and discourse studies in the School of Linguistics and Language Studies at Carleton University. He has published extensively in the areas of critical discourse studies, language policy and planning, Kurdish linguistics, language ideologies, and sociolinguistics in general. He is the author of Kurdish Identity, Discourse and New Media, Palgrave MacMillan (2011), and co-editor of the special issue of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language (2012). In addition to numerous publications in Kurdish, he has contributed to over twenty English edited volumes, handbooks, encyclopedias, and peer-reviewed journals, among them Language Policy, Language and Politics, Discourse & Society, and International Journal of the Sociology of Language. He has given over 50 interviews to a variety of media outlets in English, Kurdish and Persian regarding linguistic human rights, mother-tongue education, language policy, and language standardization and variation. On the same topics, he has delivered over twenty keynote and plenary talks. His upcoming contributions to this line of research will appear in Wily-Blackwell’s Handbook of Linguistic Human Rights (Eds. T. Skutnabb-Kangas & R. Phillipson), and The Routledge Handbook of Language Policy and Planning (Eds. M. Gazzola, F. Grin, L. Cardinal & K. Heugh) among others. Sheyholislami is currently leading an editorial team in the preparation of The Oxford Handbook of Kurdish Linguistics.
Dr. Jaffer Sheyholislami is professor of applied linguistics and discourse studies in the School of Linguistics and Language Studies at Carleton University. He has published extensively in the areas of critical discourse studies, language policy and planning, Kurdish linguistics, language ideologies, and sociolinguistics in general. He is the author of Kurdish Identity, Discourse and New Media, Palgrave MacMillan (2011), and co-editor of the special issue of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language (2012). In addition to numerous publications in Kurdish, he has contributed to over twenty English edited volumes, handbooks, encyclopedias, and peer-reviewed journals, among them Language Policy, Language and Politics, Discourse & Society, and International Journal of the Sociology of Language. He has given over 50 interviews to a variety of media outlets in English, Kurdish and Persian regarding linguistic human rights, mother-tongue education, language policy, and language standardization and variation. On the same topics, he has delivered over twenty keynote and plenary talks. His upcoming contributions to this line of research will appear in Wily-Blackwell’s Handbook of Linguistic Human Rights (Eds. T. Skutnabb-Kangas & R. Phillipson), and The Routledge Handbook of Language Policy and Planning (Eds. M. Gazzola, F. Grin, L. Cardinal & K. Heugh) among others. Sheyholislami is currently leading an editorial team in the preparation of The Oxford Handbook of Kurdish Linguistics.