Multilingual Heritage: Challenging monolingual memorialisation

该项目旨在通过在后殖民环境，即阿尔及利亚、佛得角和厄立特里亚部署当地多语种剧目，调查纪念性遗产遗址的建设情况。利用与关键语言政策、语言景观和地理符号学相关的学术知识，这项研究将探索博物馆、纪念馆和纪念碑等记忆场所在解决社会不平等问题方面的作用，并展望多种语言在多大程度上挑战殖民经历的遗产，这些遗产可能对繁荣与和平的社区生活产生重大影响。因此，该项目直接涉及AHRC的两个优先领域，即遗产和现代语言，以弥补现有AHRC项目之间的差距，所有这些项目目前都将使用多种语言与教育联系起来，而不是与遗产联系起来。这个网络将把来自一些国家的研究人员、从业人员和政策制定者聚集在一起，这些国家根据前殖民强国使用的标准语言，用语言简化地描述。该网络将对纪念活动中的多种语言如何通过将社会语言学方法用于遗产问题来解决失声问题给予关键关注。尽管利物浦大学的参与者将把他们在多种语言和语言政策方面的专业知识带到网络上，但合作的目的之一是谈判研究的视角、做法和目标，以便不将以西方为中心的方法和认识论强加于相关环境的调查。通过接受南方理论的原则，该项目将以当地的纪念叙事和话语模式为基础，并整合不同的经验宇宙。这是指导该项目的伦理立场，从参与者的第一次‘议程设置’会议开始。这将确保在地方优先事项和需求方面共同创造共同的目标和成果。计划在非洲举办三个讲习班，每个讲习班之前都会在作为案例研究和圆桌会议讨论背景的记忆场所举行半天的会议。为期半天的实践课程利用布莱克伍德和图菲在语言景观研究方面的专业知识，记录和分析记忆地点，不仅有核心网络成员参加，而且还有从业人员和政策制定者参加。这项活动不仅分享了数据收集和分析最佳做法的最新发展，而且还为循证政策建议提供了材料。对三个记忆场所记录的材料进行的集体分析有助于该项目的跨国层面，借鉴了每个民族传统中发展起来的一系列方法。核心网络成员与咨询委员会的一名不同成员共同主持这三个讲习班，以便最大限度地从不同的学术角度提供意见，使用当地口译员避免重复学术互动模式，从而使标准语文--特别是英语--在学术领域的主导地位永久化。当地从业者、政策制定者和研究人员将参加并积极参与这三个讲习班，每个讲习班都将在各自的记忆地点举行。因此，这一网络将为遗产管理提供一种新的叙事方式，允许使用多种语言，从而减少不平等现象，并发展一个共同的研究领域。

The project aims to investigate the construction of memorial heritage sites through the deployment of local plurilingual repertoires in postcolonial settings, namely Algeria, Cape Verde and Eritrea. Drawing on scholarship relating to critical language policy, Linguistic Landscapes and geosemiotics, the research will explore the role of memory places such as museums, memorials and monuments in addressing issues of social inequality, and foreground to what extent multilingualism challenges the legacies of colonial experiences that can have a significant impact on prosperous and peaceful communal living. This project therefore engages directly with two AHRC priority areas, namely Heritage and Modern Languages, to bridge the gap between existing AHRC projects, all of which currently link multilingualism with education rather than heritage. This network will bring together researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers from countries which are simplistically described in linguistic terms according to the standard language spoken by the former colonial power. The network will pay critical attention to how multilingualism in memorialisation can address voicelessness by bringing sociolinguistic approaches to bear in questions of heritage. Although the University of Liverpool participants will bring to the network their expertise in multilingualism and language policy, one of the aims of the collaboration is to negotiate research perspectives, practices and aims in order not to impose western-centric methodologies and epistemologies on the investigation of the relevant settings. By embracing the principles of Southern Theory, the project will be grounded in local modalities of memorial narratives and discourses, and integrate alternative experiential universes. This is the ethical stance that informs the project, starting from a first 'agenda setting' meeting of the participants. This will ensure co-creation of shared objectives and outcomes in the respect of local priorities and needs. There are three planned workshops in Africa, each of which is immediately preceded by a half-day session in the memory place used as a case study and backdrop to the roundtable discussions. This half-day practical session draws on Blackwood and Tufi's expertise in Linguistic Landscape research in order to record and analyse the memory places, involving not only the core network members but also the practitioners and policy-makers. This activity not only shares the latest developments in best practice for data collection and analysis but also provides the material for the evidence-based policy recommendations. The collective analysis of the material recorded in the three memory places facilitates the transnational dimension of the project, drawing on the range of approaches that have evolved in each of the national traditions. The core network members co-lead the three workshops, with a different member of the Advisory Board at each workshop, in order to maximise input from different academic perspectives, using local interpreters to avoid the replications of models of academic interactions which perpetuate the dominance of standard language - and in particular English - in scholarship. Local practitioners, policy-makers, and researchers will attend and contribute actively to the three workshops, each of which will take place in the respective memory places. As such, this network will provide a new narrative on the management of heritage, privileging multilingualism so as to reduce inequalities as well as to develop a shared arena of research.