Workshop on Language and Occupations.
October 24-25 2016. Faculty of Business and Economics. Department de Gestió d’Empreses. Av. de la Universitat 1 – Reus, Tarragona (Campus Bellisens).
Program
Room: Sala de Graus
16:15-17:00. The Value of Standards and the Value of Languages: Some Critical Questions. Florian Coulmas (IN-EAST Institute of East Asian Studies. University of Duisburg-Essen)
17:00. Pause & coffee
17:15-19:45 Language and Labour Market
17:15. Foreign language skills and employability in Germany and Italy. Michele Gazzola (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
17:45. The language as a catalyst for education: immigrants’ employment in Spain. Javier Mato, María Miyar & Rodolfo Gutiérrez (UNED & Universidad de Oviedo)
18:00. Linguistic Disenfranchisement of the Labour Market. Till Burckhardt (Université de Genève).
18.15. Language Intensity in occupational classifications. Amado Alarcón (Universitat Rovira I Virgili)
18:30. Discussion
Day 2. 25 October 2016
Room: Sala de Graus
8.45-9.30 On the time factor in mediation metrics and language policy. Anthony Pym (Intercultural Studies Group, URV)
9.30. Pause & coffee
9:45-11:00. Emphasis on measures and variables and indicators
9:45. What is linguistic work? Josep Ubalde (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
10:00. Language demands and job profiles in the Russian-speaking community of Tarragona-Salou. The need for a long-term perspective. Anthony Pym and Nune Ayvazyan (Intercultural Studies Group, URV)
10:15. Labour Process and language. Amado Alarcón, Josiah Heyman and María Martinez (Universitat Rovira i Virgili).
10:30. Discussion
11.30-12.15. What would Karl say? Language Economics, the Marxist gaze and 21st century subjectivities. David Block (ICREA/Universitat de Lleida)
12:15-14:00 Emphasis on Occupational Struggles and Labour Process.
12:15. Language demands and job profiles in the Russian-speaking community of Tarragona-Salou. The need for a long-term perspective. Ester Torres-Simón (Intercultural Studies Group, URV)
12.30. Implications of Economic Restructuring on Linguistic Human Capital Returns: A Case Study of the Residential Construction Industry in Sin City. Maria Cristina Morales (University of Texas at El Paso)
12.45. Competencias y trabajo lingüístico. Antoni Vidal (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
13.00 El Retorn del Coneixement d’Anglès en el Mercat Laboral Català. Antionio Di Paolo (AQR-IREA, Universitat de Barcelona)
13:15. Discussion