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Robert Henry Lawrence Phillipson (born 18 March 1942 in Gourock, Scotland)[1] is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Management, Society and Communication at Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. He is best known for his seminal work on linguistic imperialism and language policy in Europe.

Education and Career

Phillipson was born in Scotland in 1942. He received his B.A. in 1964 and his M.A. in 1967, both in Modern Languages (French and German) and Law, from the University of Cambridge. He obtained his second M.A. in Linguistics and English Language Teaching from Leeds University in 1969. He earned his Ph.D., with distinction, in Education from the University of Amsterdam in 1990. He worked for the British Council from 1964 to 1973. He was associate professor in the Department of Languages and Culture at Roskilde University in Denmark from 1973 to 2000. He has been on the faculty of Copenhagen Business School since 2000. He also taught at the University of Copenhagen (1973-1984). He was Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Education at the University of London (1983), the University of Melbourne in Australia (1994), the Central Institute of Indian Languages in Mysore (1995), the University of Pecs in Hungary (1996) and the Center for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Cambridge (2005). He currently lives with his wife, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, in Sweden.

Recognition

On 21 February 2010, Phillipson was awarded the Linguapax Prize along with Miquel Siguan i Soler. The Linguapax Institute describes them as "renowned advocates of multilingual education as a factor of peace and of linguistic rights against cultural and linguistic homogenization processes".[2]

Books

• Phillipson, R. (1992). Linguistic imperialism. Oxford University Press.
• Phillipson, R. (Ed.). (2000). Rights to language: Equity, power and education. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• Phillipson, R. (Ed.). (2003). English-only Europe? Challenging language policy. Routledge.
• Phillipson, R. (2009). Linguistic imperialism continued. Orient Blackswan.
• Skutnabb-Kangas, T., & Phillipson, R. (Eds.). (1994). Linguistic human rights: Overcoming linguistic discrimination. Mouton de Gruyter.
• Skutnabb-Kangas, T., & Phillipson, R. (Eds.). (2017). Language rights. Routledge.

Articles

• Phillipson, R. (2001). English for globalization or for the world's people? International Review of Education, 47(3), 185–200.
• Phillipson, R. (2017). Myths and realities of "global" English. Language Policy, 16(3), 313–331.
• Phillipson, R. (2022). A personal narrative of multilingual evolution. In R. Sachdeva & R. K. Agnihotri (Eds.), Being and becoming multilingual: Some narratives (pp. 63–83). Orient Blackswan.
• Phillipson, R., & Skutnabb-Kangas, T. (1996). English only worldwide or language ecology? TESOL Quarterly, 30(3), 429–452.
• Phillipson, R., & Skutnabb-Kangas, T. (2022). Communicating in "global" English: Promoting linguistic human rights or complicit with linguicism and linguistic imperialism. In Y. Miike & J. Yin (Eds.), The handbook of global interventions in communication theory (pp. 425–439). Routledge.

References

External links

• Robert Phillipson web page
• Dr. Robert Phillipson's articles, videos
• web page in Danish
• Keynote YouTube talk on Linguistic Imperialism
• conference in french senate

На других языках

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[de] Robert Phillipson

Robert Phillipson (* 16. März 1942 in England) ist ein britischer Sprachwissenschaftler, der in Schweden lebt.

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- [en] Robert Phillipson

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