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Applied Linguist and Language Policy Expert

About Daniel Glasgow

In 2019, Daniel Glasgow co-drafted the UNESCO-endorsed Framework for Linguistic Justice in Postcolonial Education Systems, a living document now adopted by twelve national ministries to replace monolingual assessment mandates with dynamic, context-sensitive multilingual proficiency pathways. His fieldwork in Nepal’s Tharu communities revealed how standardized language exams systematically disqualified students fluent in three oral registers but illiterate in the dominant script, prompting him to pioneer the 'script-agnostic literacy index', now embedded in UNICEF’s teacher training modules. Glasgow doesn’t treat policy as abstract legislation; he maps it onto classroom chalk dust, courtroom transcripts, and radio broadcast logs, always asking: whose grammar gets codified, whose accent gets transcribed, and whose silence gets counted as consent? His writing avoids academic jargon not out of simplification, but because precision demands naming power asymmetries, like how 'language revitalization' funding often flows to ceremonial vocabulary while ignoring the syntax needed for land-rights petitions.

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  • “How did your script-agnostic literacy index change Nepal's national exams?”
  • “What does linguistic justice look like in AI-powered language assessment tools?”
  • “Can you walk me through a real policy intervention where dialect recognition prevented school dropout?”
  • “How do you reconcile EU multilingualism directives with Romani language rights on the ground?”

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Has Daniel Glasgow published peer-reviewed work on language policy in digital governance?
Yes, he co-led the 2023 EU-funded study 'Lexical Gatekeeping in Algorithmic Public Services', analyzing how automated translation APIs in municipal portals erase regional variants of Catalan and Basque. The findings directly informed Spain’s 2024 Digital Linguistic Equity Act, mandating dialect-aware NLP pipelines for all public-facing chatbots.
What distinguishes Glasgow’s approach from traditional sociolinguistics?
He treats language policy as material infrastructure, not discourse. His team installs bilingual voice-recognition systems in rural health clinics, then measures how error rates correlate with maternal mortality data. This shifts analysis from 'attitudes toward language' to 'how grammatical erasure compounds diagnostic delay.'
Does Glasgow work with Indigenous language communities outside academia?
He co-founded the Indigenous Language Policy Lab (2021), a non-hierarchical partnership with Māori, Sámi, and Yucatec Maya educators that co-designs policy templates, not research questions. Their 'sovereign terminology protocols' have been cited in three national constitutional revisions.
What’s Glasgow’s stance on English as a lingua franca in climate diplomacy?
He argues it functions as epistemic extraction: when Pacific Island delegates negotiate sea-level rise adaptation using English technical terms, their ancestral hydrological knowledge, encoded in place-specific verbs, is rendered inadmissible. His alternative is 'bilingual procedural memory': simultaneous interpretation that preserves syntactic structures conveying relational accountability to land.
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