Last updated by kprzemek on 2020-07-05. Originally submitted by tomash on 2009-10-01.
dr hab. Michael Hornsby, prof. UAM
University professor 
Office: Collegium Heliodori, room 219
Phone: (+48) 61 829 3522, (+48) 61 829 1026
E-mail: mhornsby@wa.amu.edu.pl
Duty hours: link
Non-teaching duties (in Polish): link
Websites/Profiles:
Degrees
- B.A. (Hons.) in French and Welsh, 1988
- Post Graduate Certificate in Education (Upper Primary), 1992
- M.A. in Irish Studies, 2001
- Diploma in Humanistic Counselling based on Transactional Analysis, 2006
- PhD Thesis: Minority languages and processes of globalisation: Linguistic hybridity in Brittany, 2009
- D. Litt. in linguistics, AMU Poznań, 2016
Research interests
- Sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, especially the reaction of speech communities to the pressures of globalisation and modernisation
- Preservation, revitalisation and transformation of minority languages
- Language ‘authenticity’
- Relationship between language and national/regional identity
Teaching experience
- Adjunct in the Celtic Department, Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, 2011-2012
- Visiting Professor, Koszalin Polytechnic, Poland, 2009-2011
- West Wight Secondary Middle School, Freshwater, Isle of Wight, UK French co-ordinator and Year 8 tutor, 2001-2008
- Lockyer’s Middle School, Corfe Mullen, Dorset, UK French co-ordinator and Year 7 tutor, 1994-2001
- A variety of schools in the Slough and Southampton areas as a general teacher, 1992-1994
- Lecturer in Welsh and English to undergraduates at Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski, Lublin, Poland, 1988-1991
Other professional experience
- Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (H2020) project proposal evaluator ('expert') (2017, 2018)
- Language Vitality in Social Context workgroup member, October 2016 (Smithsonian Institution and the Grup d'Estudi de Llengues Amençades, Barcelona)
- International Symposium on Bilingualism scientific board member (2016-2017)
- Gesellschaft für Bedrohte Sprachen (GBS) (Foundation for Endangered Languages grant holder (2016)
- Editorial board member of Sociolinguistic Studies (since 2015)
- Short Term Scientific Missions Coordinator for COST Action IS1306 (2015-2017)
- COST Action IS1306: "New Speakers in Multilingual Europe: Opportunities and Challenges". Management Committee Member
- FP7 Projekt (EU-financed project): Innovative Networking in Infrastructure for Endangered Languages (INNET, nr 284415), Consultant
- Dziedzictwo Językowe Rzeczypospolitej. Baza dokumentacji zagrożonych języków (11H1100148) (Heritage Languages of Poland), Project leader on Yiddish language in Poland
- Guest editor of a special edition of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language (de Gruyter) on Breton, 2013
- Peer reviewer for the Journal of Multicultural and Multilingual Development, Cambridge University Press, Language, Culture and Curriculum, International Journal of Multilingualism, Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America, Language Documentation and Conservation
- Erasmus teacher mobility: Department of Celtic, Université de Haute Bretagne, Rennes 2, Brittany, France, February 2011.
- Research assistant on Fisherspeak project: Lexical attrition in the east coast fishing communities of Scotland. AHRC-funded project (principal investigator: Dr. Robert McColl Millar), May 2008 - Sept 2009
- Participant on Documenting Endangered Iranian Languages. University of Kiel, Germany. Funded by the Volkswagen Foundation’s programme, Dokumentation Bedrohter Sprachen (DoBeS), 20-31 August 2007
Guest lectures
- Invited speaker: Research colloquium on Migration and Minorities, Paper: "The new speaker paradigm - does it have anything "new" to offer minority languages?", Viadrina University, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany, July 2019
- Invited speaker: Methoden zur Erforschung der Kultur der regionalen Mehrsprachigkeit. New speakers in minority language settings: Which questions and what methodologies? Christian-Albrechs-Universität zu Kiel. September 2018
- Invited speaker: Global Approaches to Multilingualism and Standardisation. Standardisation, new speakers and the acceptance of (new) standards (with Noel Ó Murchadha (Trinity College Dublin) ). University of Cambridge, UK, May 2018.
- Invited speaker: Grammar, Cognition and Language Change - Dahlem Lectures in Linguistics. (De)legitimizing minority language group membership: Comment peut-être breton(nant)? Freie Universität, Berlin. June 2018.
- Plenary: The new speaker paradigm: Challenges and opportunities in language transmission / Le paradigme du nouveau locuteur: défis et opportunités dans la transmission de la langue. Institut Supérieur des languages de la République Française/Kelenn: Colloquium Quimper, France, March 2018.
- Invited speaker - Workshop 2: Language revitalisation and the transformation of family life (Revitalise project, University of Edinburgh, Scotland). ‘Creative modes of transmission for Breton in the 21st century’. September 2017.
- 'History and current status of the Breton language in France', Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany, May 2017
- 'Teaching Celtic languages to New Speakers: How to sound "authentic". Invited presentation at 'Language documentation, teaching materials and didactics:An opportunity for small and endangered languages?' Mercator/SOAS/CIDLeS, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, December 2016
- 'Minority Languages and the appearance of new speakers', Department of Basque, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain, March 2014
- 'New Speakers of Minority Languages', Department of Applied Linguistics, Birkbeck College, UCL, UK, May 2013
- 'Successful Revitalisation of Welsh and Irish'. Artes Liberales, University of Warsaw, Poland, April 2013
- 'Exploring links between minority language revitalisation and EFL'. Centre for Global Englishes, University of Southampton, UK, January 2013
- 'Multilingualism in the school systems of the UK', RoMMe Network for Researchers of Multilingualism and Multilingual Education, University of Oslo, Norway, June 2012
Grants
- NCN OPUS 162018/31/B/HS2/00844 - "Rewitalizacja języka bez udziału jego rodzimych użytkowników: Studium języka bretońskiego w Górnej Bretanii oraz języka łużyckiego na Dolnych Łużycach" / Language revitalisation without native speakers: The cases of Breton in Upper Brittany and Sorbian in Lower Lusatia. 05.07.2019-04.07.2022
Conferences
Conference organisation
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Organiser of PLM 2010 Celtic Satelite Session Shifts and innovations in minority languages in the 21st century with an emphasis on P- and Q-Celtic, September 2011, Gniezno, Poland
- Co-organiser of the 1st Poznań Conference of Celtic Studies, Poznań 18-19 October 2014
- Co-convenor of panel on Language and legitimization (COST IS1306, Hamburg, May 2016)
- Co-organiser of the 2nd Poznań Conference of Celtic Studies, Poznań 5-6 July 2016
- Colloquium organizer: Modes of ‘new speakerness’: Routes and trajectories of transmission in becoming a new speaker. International Symposium of Bilingualism 11, University of Limerick, Ireland, June 2017
Editorial
- Studia Celtica Posnaniensia, Editor-in chief, 2016-now
Awards
- AMU Rector's Prize for research achievements, 2016
Publications