rpmsc

Department of Management, Society and Communication

Robert
Phillipson
Professor emeritus


E-mail: rp.msc@cbs.dk
Presentation

My books on language policy, language rights, and language in education have been published in a dozen countries. I have strong links to colleagues worldwide, many of whom are critical scholars working for greater social justice in education and the wider international society. In recent years I have been invited to lecture in Australia, China, Indonesia, Korea, Mauritius, South Africa, Turkey, the UK, and several eastern and southern European countries. I act as an expert assessing EU funding applications in the area of language and culture and European identity. Influencing the Danish government to take language policy seriously has always been uphill and is a continuing challenge. In 2010 I was awarded the UNESCO Linguapax prize.

Primary research areas
  • English in the modern world, reasons for its expansion, and implications for other languages.
  • Linguistic imperialism, language and power, postcolonial and neoimperial languages.
  • Language rights, linguistic human rights, linguistic justice.
  • Language policy in EU institutions and in the interaction between the EU and member states.
  • Language pedagogy, the learning of English.
Curriculum Vitae
Link to this homepage
www.cbs.dk/en/staff/rpmsc
Other teaching activities

I have taught PhD courses on language policy in Denmark (CBS, Aalborg), Hungary (Szeged), China (Shanghai), and India in recent years.

Selected publications

Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove & Robert Phillipson, eds. 2023, Handbook of Linguistic Human Rights, Wiley-Blackwell.

Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove, Phillipson, Robert & Dunbar, Robert (2019). Is Nunavut education criminally inadequate? An analysis of current policies for Inuktut and English in education, international and national law, linguistic and cultural genocide and crimes against humanity. Nunavut, 25 April 2019. 83 pages. Download from https://www.tunngavik.com/files/2019/04/NuLinguicideReportFINAL.pdf

Phillipson, Robert. La domination de l'anglais: un défi pour l'Europe. Paris: Libre & Solidaire, March 2019

Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove and Robert Phillipson (eds) 2017. Language Rights. Four volumes. Routledge.

Bunce, Pauline, Robert Phillipson, Vaughan Rapatahana, and Ruanni. F. Tupas (eds) 2016. Why English? Confronting the Hydra. Multilingual Matters.

Phillipson, Robert 2016. Myths and realities of ‘global' English. Language Policy. On-line from June 2016.

Phillipson, Robert 2015. English as threat or opportunity in European Higher Education. In English-Medium Instruction in European Higher Education: English in Europe, ed. S. Dimova, A. K. Hultgren, and C. Jensen. Mouton de Gruyter, 19-42.

Phillipson, Robert 2015. Linguistic imperialism of and in the European Union. In Revisiting the European Union as Empire, ed. Hartmut Behr and Yannis A. Stivachtis. Routledge, 134-163.

Phillipson, Robert. English-only Europe? Challenging language policy. Routledge, 2003.

Phillipson, Robert. Linguistic imperialism. Oxford University Press, 1992.

Publications List
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2024
Robert Phillipson / Linguistic Imperialism
In: Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. ed. /Carol A. Chapelle. Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell 2024
Encyclopedia chapter > peer review
Robert Phillipson; Ahmed Kabel / Linguistic Imperialism in English-medium Higher Education
In: The Routledge Handbook of English-Medium Instruction in Higher Education. ed. /Kingsley Bolton; Werner Botha; Benedict Lin. Abingdon : Routledge 2024, p. 63-77 (Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics)
Book chapter > peer review
Robert Phillipson / Review of Fidahić (2021): Linguistic Justice at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
In: Language Problems and Language Planning, Vol. 48, No. 1, 2024, p. 113-117
Book review
Robert Phillipson / The Continuing Neglect of Language Policy in Denmark
In: Sprog på dagsordenen - Languages on the Agenda. ed. /Slobodanka Dimova; Sanne Larsen; Janus Mortensen. København : Københavns Universitet 2024, p. 209-226 (Studier i Parallelsproglighed, Vol. C18)
Book chapter
Robert Phillipson / Преемственность в дискурсе о продвижениианглийского языка с xix века по настоящее время
In: Bulletin of Chelyabinsk State University, Vol. 437, No. 5, 2024, p. 123-134
Journal article > peer review
2022
Robert Phillipson / A Personal Narrative of Multilingual Evolution
In: Being and Becoming Multilingual: Some Narratives. . ed. /Rajesh Sachdeva; Rama Kant Agnihotri. Hyderabad : Orient BlackSwan 2022, p. 63-83
Book chapter > peer review
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas; Robert Phillipson / Afterword : Pursuing Linguistic Human Rights.
In: The Handbook of Linguistic Human Rights. ed. /Tove Skutnabb-Kangas; Robert Phillipson. Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell 2022, p. 679-687 (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics )
Book chapter > peer review
Robert Phillipson; Tove Skutnabb-Kangas / Communicating in “Global” English : Promoting Linguistic Human Rights or Complicit with Linguicism and Linguistic Imperialism.
In: The Handbook of Global Interventions in Communication Theory. ed. /Yoshitaka Miike; Jing Yin. New York : Routledge 2022, p. 425-439 (International Communication Association (ICA) Handbook Series)
Book chapter > peer review
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas; Robert Phillipson / Existential Evidence : A Compilation.
In: The Handbook of Linguistic Human Rights. ed. /Tove Skutnabb-Kangas; Robert Phillipson. Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell 2022, p. 657-678 (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics )
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