Ina DRUVIETE

Professor Ina DRUVIETE Latvian Language Institute, University of Latvia Akademijas laukums 1 Riga, LV 1050 Latvia Phone: +371 7229724, +371 6352167 Fax: + 371 7227696 E-mail: ina.druviete@saeima.lv            ina.druviete@izm.gov.lv

Birth Data: May 29, 1958, Riga, Latvia

• General Linguistics
• Sociolinguistics
• Language Policy
• Bilingual/Multilingual Education; Linguistic Human Rights

Education

• Dr.habil.philol., University of Latvia, 1996
• Dr.philol. (Candidate of Science), Institute of Language and Literature of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, 1985
• Postgraduate course, Institute of Language and Literature of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, 1981-1984
• University of Latvia, Faculty of Philology, cum laude, 1981

Work Experience

• Minister of Education and Science, Republic of Latvia, 2004-
• Member of Parliament (Saeima) of the Republic of Latvia, Head of Human Rights and Social Affairs Commission, 2002 -2004
• Professor of General Linguistics, University of Latvia, 1997-
• Leading Researcher, Head of the Department of Sociolinguistics, Latvian Language Institute, 1992-
• Senior Researcher, Institute of Language and Literature of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, 1985-1992
• Junior Researcher, Institute of Language and Literature of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, 1984-1985

• Corresponding Member, Latvian Academy of Sciences, 1999
• The Latvian Academy of Sciences Prize, 1982, 1992
• A.Abele-Prize (USA), 1992

Grants and Scholarships

• The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study and Conference Center Residency Grant, USA, 1999
• J.William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship, University of Pittsburgh, USA, 1996-1997
• Guest Researcher, Roskilde University, Denmark, 1995
• The Nordic Council Research Grant, Oslo University, Norway, 1993
• The Swedish Institute Research Grant, Stockholm, Sweden, 1993
• Visiting Scholar, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsawa, 1990

Research Projects

• Euromosaic III. Presence of Regional and Minority Language Groups in the European Union's New Acceding Countries. Research Centre on Multilingualism, Catholic University, Brussels, 2004.
• Linguistic Legislation in the EU and Latvia. Latvian Council of Science, 2003-
• Linguistic Integration of Society in Latvia (Head of Project). Latvian Council of Science, 2004-
• Functional and Sociolinguistic Aspects of Language (Head of Project). Latvian Council of Science , 1992-2003.
• Monitoring of Language Situation in Latvia (Head of Project). Latvian Council of Science , 1996-2002.
• Grammars of Literary Latvian (Research Associate). Latvian Council of Science, 1992-1995
• Language Use and Attitudes among Latvians (Project Director). The Soros Foundation and the State Language Center , 1996
• Language Use and Attitudes among Minorities in Latvia (Project Director). USIA and UNDP , 1995

• Communication across the Baltic Area (Turku University, Finland)
• Introduction to Linguistics (University of Latvia, Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology)
• Contemporary Latvian  (University of Latvia, Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology)
• Sociolinguistics (University of Latvia, Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Philology; Daugavpils Pedagogical University)
• Language Policy (University of Latvia, Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology)
• Linguistic Human Rights (University of Latvia, Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology)
• Theoretical Foundations of Bilingual Education (University of Latvia, Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology)

• Vice-Head, State Language Commission under the Auspices of the President of Latvia
• Chairperson, Council of the Latvian Language Institute, 1992-2002.
• Chairperson, Latvian Language Council of the State Language Center, 1992-2002
• Member, Council of the Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology , 1997-2003
• Member, Habilitation and Promotion Council for Linguistics
• Member, Editorial Board of the journal 'Proceedings of the Latvian Academy of Sciences. Part A'
• Member, Editorial Board of the journal 'Linguistica Lettica'
• Member, International Association of Sociologists
• Member, International Academy of Language Law
• Member, Advisory Board of series 'Multilingualism and Linguistic Diversity'
• Correspondent of 'Sociolinguistica. International Yearbook of European Sociolinguistics'
• Member of the Editorial Board of journal "Language Policy"
• Vice-President, Latvian Association of University Women 1993-1996

    About 250 publications (1982-2005)

     Monographs:

• Valoda un etnoss /Language and Ethânos/, 1990, Riga: LZB, 40 pp. (in Latvian)
• Kârlis Mîlenbahs /Latvian Linguist Kârlis Mîlenbahs/, 1990, Riga: Zinatne, 283 pp. (in Latvian)
• Valodas politika: pasaules pieredze Latvijai /Language Policy: World's Experience for Latvia/, 1994, Riga: LZB, 52 pp. (in Latvian)
• Druviete I. (ed.). The Language Situation in Latvia. Sociolinguistic Survey. Part 1. Language Use and Attitudes among Minorities in Latvia, 1995, Riga: Latvian Language Institute,  142 pp.
• Druviete I. (ed.). Valodas situâcija Latvijâ. Sociolingvistisks pêtîjums. 2. dala. Latviešu lingvistiska kompetence un valodas procesu vertêjums /The Language Situation in Latvia. Sociolinguistic Survey. Part 2. Language Use and Attitudes among Latvians/,1996, Riga: Latvian Language Institute, 198 pp.(in Latvian).
• Latvie'su valodas sociolingvistiskâ situâcija (izpêtes metodes un raksturojums: statistika, psihologija, politika) /The Sociolinguistic Situation of the Latvian Language (Methods of Investigations and Conclusions: Statistics, Psychology, Policy)/, 1996, Riga: Tapals,  78 pp.(in Latvian).
• Latvijas valodas politika Eiropas Savienîbas kontekstâ / Language Policy in Latvia in the Context of the European Union/, 1998,   Rîga: LZAEI, 193 pp.(in Latvian).
• Sociolinguistic Situation and Language Policy in the Baltic States, 2000,  Rîga: Mâcîbu apgâds, 46 pp.
• Druviete I., Baltaiskalna D., Ernstsone V., Porina V. Latvijas valodas politikas analîze: ekonomiskie aspekti / Economic Aspects of Language Policy in Latvia/, 2001, Rîga: Mâcîbu apgâds, 36 pp. (in Latvian)

• Druviete I., Gavrilina M. Minoritâtes berni latvie'su mâcîbvalodas skolâs /Minority Children in Latvian Language Classrooms/, 2003, Rîga: Puse Plus, 54 pp.(in Latvian).

• Language Policy after Independence: Language in Education in Latvia. - IVth Conference on Languages and Law. Conference Materials. Fribourg, 1994, pp. 103-108.
• Linguistic Human Rights in the Baltic States. - American Anthropological Association, 93rd Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, November 30-December 4, 1994. Abstracts, pp. 129-130.
• Politica del lenguaje y derechos humanos linguisticos en los Estados Balticos. - Alteridades. Derechos humanos linguisticos en sociedades multiculturales. Mexico, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Ano 5, num. 10, 1995, 105-120.
• Language Contacts in Balticum: Latvia. - Contact Linguistics. An International Handbook of Contemporary Research. Ed. by H.Goebl et al. Vol.2., Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1997, pp.1906-1912.
• Change of Language Hierarchy in Latvia: Language Skills and Attitudes to Language Policy. - Recent Studies in Contact Linguistics, Plurilingua XVIII. Bonn: Duemmler, 1997, pp. 84-91.
• Language Policy in the Baltic States in Comparison with Other Multilingual Regions. - Actes del Congres europeu sobre planificacio linguistica/ Proceedings of the European Conference on Language Planning, Barcelona: Departement de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya, 1997, pp. 144-154.
• Linguistic Human Rights in the Baltic States. - International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Vol. 127. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1997, pp.161-185.
• Republic of Latvia . - In: Linguistic Minorities in Central & Eastern Europe. Ed. by C.B.Paulston and D.Peckham. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 1998, pp.160.-183.
• La situation sociolinguistique de la language lettone. - Les politiques linguistiques des pays baltes. Ed. J.Maurais. Terminogramme. Juillet 1998. Quebec: Office de la langue francaise, pp. 105-149.
• Language policy in Latvia: Interaction between sociolinguistic and political factors. - 14th World Congress of Sociology. Sociological abstracts. July 1998. Montreal: ISA, 1998, p.100.
• The sociolinguistic situation of the Slavic languages in Latvia. - Contributions of the Latvian Delegation to the XII International Congress of Slavicists (Krakow, 27.08.1998.-2.09.1998.). Riga: Latvian Language Institute, 1998, pp. 5-30
• Linguistic Human Rights Conference in Budapest. - Sociolinguistica. International Yearbook of European Sociolinguistics. Tuebingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1998, vol. 12, pp. 261-263.
• Language policy in a changing society: problematic issues of implementation of universal linguistic human rights standards. - In: Approaching Linguistic Human Rights. Ed. by M.Kontra, R.Phillipson, T.Skutnabb-Kangas, T.Varady. Budapest: Central European University Press, pp. 379-391.
• Purism in Latvian language standardization: the first period of national independence. - In: Proc. Daugavpils Pedagogical University, 9. Problems of contrastive Linguistics, 1999, Daugavpils: Saule, pp. 5-12.
• Linguistic integration of the society through naturalization: the case of Latvia. - Multilingual Cities and Language Policies. Proc. 6^th International Conference on Law and Language. Ed. by K.Herberts & J.G.Turi. Vaasa: Abo Akademi University, 1999, pp. 339-346.
• The Latvian Language Law Debate:  Some aspects of Linguistic Human Rights in Education. - In: Rights to Language: Equity, Power, and Education: Celebrating the 60th Birthday of tove Skutnabb-Kangas /ed. R.Phillipson/. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000, pp. 83-86.
• Language policy in the Republic of Latvia: Experience and problems. - Revue Baltique. Organe de la Collaboration des Etats Baltes. Vilnius, 1999[2001], N 15, pp. 99-112.
• Language policy in Latvia before European Accession. - In: Management of Integration in Multicultural Societies. Roundtable Materials, Chisinau: ARC Publishing House, 2003, pp. 117-127.
• Prospects and perspectives for languages of the new member states in the enlarged European Union. - Best Practices of Learning Less Widely-used Languages in Multicultural and Multinational Europe. 23-25 September 2004. Materials of the Conference. Vilnius: Lietuviu kalbos instituto leidykla, 2004, p.25.
• Latvie'su valoda - latvie'su, Latvijas vai Eiropas Savienîbas identitâtes elements./ Latvian language - identity element for Latvians, Latvian peoples or the EU?/. - Valodu mâcibu centrs. Starptautiskâs 10 gadu jubilejas konferences "Valoda kâ identitâte" rakstu krâjums. Riga, Valodu mâcibu centrs, 2004, pp. 11-15. (in Latvian).

Married; daughter Inese (21), son Peteris (18).

Last update 15.04.2005