Centre for European and International Studies Research (CEISR)

Sue Wright

Professor Sue Wright

Emeritus Professor of Language and Politics

School of Languages and Area Studies

Park Building
King Henry I Street
Portsmouth
PO1 2DZ

sue.wright@port.ac.uk

Profile

Qualifications

  • BA French and German - Trinity College Dublin
  • Doctorate - Aston University
  • PGCE – London University

Research Clusters

  • Language across Borders

Discipline Areas

  • Area Studies
  • Language and Linguistics

Research CV

Current and Recent Research Projects

  • Language in the European Parliament
  • Language and citizenship
  • Francophonie

Publications since 2000

Single author book

  • Language Policy and Language Planning: from nationalism to globalisation, London :Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 256pp. ISBN 0333986423
  • Community and Communication: the role of language in nation building and European integration, Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 2000. 280pp. ISBN:1-85359-484-9

Articles in refereed journals

  • (2009) ‘The elephant in the room’. The Journal of European Language Policy 1/2 pp 93-120.
  • (2008) ‘Allegiance, influence and language: the case of Francophonie’ Synergies Vol 3  pp 51-69. 
  • (2007) ‘English in the European Parliament: MEPs and their language repertoires’ Sociolinguistica Vol 21.
  • (2007) ‘The right to speak one’s own language: reflections on theory and practice’ Language Policy, Vol 6 No 2. pp 203-224.
  • (2006) ‘Language and the Internet’ Sociolinguistica Vol 20. pp166-182.  
  • (2006) Regional or Minority languages on the WWW’ Journal of Language and Politics Vol 5 No 2 .
  • (2006)  ‘Language maintenance: the case of a Turkish-speaking Community in Birmingham’ (with Nur Kurtoğlu-Hooton) International Journal of the Sociology of Language Vol 18/1. 
  • (2006) ‘French as a lingua franca’ Annual Review of Applied Linguistics,   pp 35-60, ISSN 0267190506.
  • (2005) ‘Sociolinguistics: a profile of the discipline in Britain’ Sociolinguistica Vol 19. pp185-1999.
  • (2004)  ‘Multilingualism and the Internet' International Journal on Multicultural Societies Vol 6 No 1.
  • (2001)  'Reconciling respect for diversity and the development of a European public sphere' PlurilinguaXXII. pp 77-94.
  • (2001)  'Language and power: the background to the debate on linguistic rights' International Journal on Multicultural Societies Vol. 3, No. I
  • (2001) The renaissance of Catalan and Welsh: political causes and effects' Plurilingua XXIII. pp 195-217.
  • Grundman, R., Smith, D. and Wright, S. (2001) 'Elites nationales et discours transnationaux dans la guerre des Balkans. Comparaison entre la presse de l'Establishment française, allemande et britannique' Questions de Communication, Vol I.
  • Grundmann R, Smith D,  and Wright, S. (2000) 'National elites and transnational discourses in the Balkan War: a comparison between the French, British and German establishment press' The European Journal of Communication, Vol. 15, No.3. pp 299-320.
  • (2000) ' Jacobins, Regionalists and the Council of Europe's Charter for Regional and Minority Languages' Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Vol. 21, No.5. pp 414-425.

Book chapters

  • (2012) 'Language policy, the nation and nationalism' in Berbard Spolcky (ed.) The Cambridge Handbook of Language Policy, Cambridge University Press. Pp.59-79 ISBN 9780521195652 
  • (2011) ‘Status Planning’ in C. Chapelle (ed) The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics  Wiley-Blackwell.
  • (2011) 'Democracy, communities of communication and the European Union' in S. Adamoand and A. Kjaer (eds) Linguistic diversity and European democracy. Ashgate, Aldershot. Pp. 35-56 ISBN 9781409408604
  • (2011) ‘Democracy, Communities of Communication and the European Union’  Linguistic Diversity and European Democracy. Farnham: Ashgate.
  • (2011) Démocratie, Démos, Débat’  Actes du colloque Identités, Citoyennetés et Démocratie : 20 ans après held at Université de Travail, Charleroi 22-24 October 2009.
  • (2010) ‘Language and nation building in Europe’ in B. Kortmann and J. van der Auwera (eds) The Field of Linguistics: Europe. Mouton de Gruyter.
  • Wright, S. (2010) ‘Language education and foreign relations in Vietnam’ in P Griffiths, A. Merrison and A.Bloomer (eds) Language in Use: a reader.London: Routledge. Pp 211-226. ISBN 978-0-415-44205-3.
  • (2010) ‘Naturalisation, rights, duties and waning citizenship’ in C. Slade and M. Möllering (eds.) From migrant to citizen.Basingstoke: Palgrave. Pp 256-266 ISBN 978-0-230-57633-9.
  • (2008) 'Il diritto di utilizzare la propria lingua: alcune riflessioni su teoria e practica' in C. Consani e Paola Desideri (eds) Minoranze linguistiche: prospettive, strumenti, territori. Roma: Carocci. Pp 32-47 ISBN 978-88-430-4351-4.
  • (2007) ‘What is a language? The difficulties inherent in language rights' in D. Castiglione and C. Longman (eds.) The language question in Europe and diverse societies. Hart, pp 81-101, ISBN 9781841136677.
  • (2006) ‘Language Policy and Language Planning’ in C. Lamas and P.Stockwell (eds.) Routledge Companion to Sociolinguistics, Routledge, 2006, pp164-173, ISBN 0415338492.   
  • (2004) 'Language rights, democracy and the European Union' In J. Freeland and D. Patrick (eds.)Language Rights and Language Survival,Manchester:St Jerome. pp 219-243. ISBN 1-9000650-74-6.
  • (2002) 'Vietnam: language planning for the end of isolation' In J. Tollefson (ed.) Language policies in Education, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum. ISBN 0-8058-3600-4.
  • (2002) 'Regional cooperation in the European Union: the case of the French-Italian border' In C. Hoffmann et al (eds.) Beyond Boundaries, Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. ISBN 1-85359-555-1.
  • Smith, D. and Wright, S. (2001) 'Sociolinguistics, Sociology and Language Policy: past trends and future prospects' in A. Jozsef, S. Tiborand T. Istvan (eds.) Szines eszmek nem alszanak-Szepe Gyorgy. Pecs: Lingua Franca Csoport. ISBN 963 641 8195.
  • (2000) 'Amnesia in the cause of national cohesion' In B.Axford and D. Berghahn (eds.) Unity and Diversity in the New Europe, Peter Lang. pp 41-63, ISBN: 3-906760-30-8.
  • (2000) 'Communicating across divides: lingua francas in Europe' In L. Hantrais, J. Howarth and S. Wright (eds.) Language, Politics and Society: the new languages department. Festschrift for Professor D.E. Ager Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. pp 119-129. ISBN 1-85359-487-3.
  • Howorth, J and Wright, S. (2000) 'Introduction' In L. Hantrais, J. Howarth and S. Wright (eds.) Language, Politics and Society: the new languages department. Festschrift for Professor D.E. Ager. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. pp ix-xv ISBN 1-85359-487-3.
  • Wright, S (1999) ‘A Community that can communicate: the linguistic factor in European integration' In Whose Europe? The Turn Towards Democracy,Oxford: Blackwell, 1999. pp 79-104. ISBN: 0-631-21918-8.
  • D. Smith and S. Wright (1999)  'Introduction' In D. Smith and S.Wright (eds.) Whose Europe? The Turn Towards Democracy, Oxford: Blackwell. pp 2-18. ISBN: 0-631-21918-8.

Special issues of journals: editorships

  • Wright, S and Ammon, U. (2010) (eds.) ‘Fremdsprachen an den Schulen der Europäischen Union/ Les langues étrangères dans les écoles de l’Union Européenne/Foreign languages in the schools of the European Union’ Special issue Sociolinguistica 24.
  • (2008) ‘Citizenship Tests in Europe’ International Journal on Multicultural Societies, Volume 10. No 1.
  • French-an accommodating language/Le francais: langue d'accueil. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 2000. ISBN 1-85359-504-7.

Articles in professional and other journals

  • 'Language inEurope-the need for an overview' in Culturelink 200] ISBN 953-6096-2] -8. pp 137-150.
  • UNESCO (£6000) Language and the Internet - 2002-2005
  • BritishAcademy(£5000) Language networks in the European Parliament - 2006-2007
  • UNESCO (£500) Language testing for citizenship – 2007
  • Visiting professorships:SimonFraserUniversity, August 2010;MacquarieUniversity, October 2007,
  • Plenaries: Multilingualism in Europe: prospects and practices in East-Central Europe, Budapest25-26 March 2011; World Englishes conference: A critical re-evaluation of theory, methodology, and pedagogy in global contexts. Vancouver, 25-27 July 2010; Innovative Universities European Union Conference: From migrant to citizen: testing language, testing culture.Sydney, 3-6 December 2008
  • 2007 Consultant for new doctoral school programme, Faculty of Humanities, Vera Cruz University
  • 2002 Visiting scholar, Faculty of Languages,UniversityofAntwerp
  • 2000 Visiting EU scholar, New School Postgraduate Centre,New York
  • Series editor Language and Globalisation Palgrave-Macmillan
  • Editor (with Ulrich Ammon and Jeroen Darquennes) Sociolinguistica