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Contents Vol. 1,2.
Articles Monica
Heller Adrian
Blackledge Louis-Jean
Calvet & Lía Varela Joseph
Gafaranga Aneta
Pavlenko Recensións: Christina Bratt Paulston & G. Richard Tucker (eds.), (1997). The Early Days of Sociolinguistics: Memories and Reflections. Dallas, TX: Summer Institute of Linguistics. (Manuel Fernández Ferreiro) Le galicien
et la sociolinguistique galicienne: à la conquête de la reconnaissance
sociale de la langue. Monica
Heller Nowadays bilingualism is becoming a positive value to be promoted and defended in our western social and cultural context. Being understood from a wide perspective, bilingualism may be both a way of wielding the power and resisting it. Nevertheless, the most relevant aspect is understanding the sources of value of bilingualism and the nature of valued bilingual practices, because not all of them get the same recognition from the point of view of dominant languages and social groups. It is suggested that according to present dominant linguistic ideologies, the bilingualism that gets value and recognition in postmodernity is the one that is based on certain linguistic behaviours and practices that can only change very slightly monolingual standardizing ideologies which was hegemonic in modernity. Keywords: bilingualism, linguistic minorities, globalization. Adrian
Blackledge In multilingual, heterogeneous societies language ideologies are constantly constructed and re-constructed in discursive interactions at micro and macro levels. When the dominant, majority group in a society, nation, nation-state or community considers that the ideal model of society is monolingual, monoethnic, monoreligious and monoideological (Blommaert & Verschueren, 1998a), we immediately encounter questions such as 'who is in?' and 'who is out?'. A dominant ideology of monolingualism in multilingual societies raises questions of social justice, as such an ideology potentially excludes and discriminates against those who are either unable or unwilling to fit the monoglot standard. In this paper I review recent research which has illuminated our understanding of language ideologies and social justice in multilingual states, and I offer an analysis of everyday discourse practices in Britain, including monolingual practices in a multilingual educational setting, a language ideological debate in local news media, and the liberal academic discourse of a recently-published report into the future of multi-ethnic Britain. My analysis suggests that in each of these contexts the many minority languages of Birmingham, and of Britain, are being written out of public discourse, as a monolingual ideology continues to prevail. Key words: multilingualism, hegemony, social justice, ideology. Louis-Jean
Calvet & Lía Varela The topics on language revitalization and promotion and on cultural diversity defense, which are widely translated into some oposition to linguistic globalization, are mostly based on a set of ideas which will be known as 'politically and linguistically correct discourse' (PLC). This discourse, on its turn, generates linguistic policy claims which usually drive us nowhere. In this article we aim to show a model of analysis of the linguistic situation at the moment of globalization and to characterize the PLC discourse, assessing its effects on linguistic policies. Key words: globalization, minority languages, linguistic policy, language planning, epilinguistic discourse. Joseph
Gafaranga In this paper, I argue that, for a 'faithful' account of the orderliness of language alternation among bilingual speakers, an attitude of indifference must be adopted inapproaching the data. More specifically, I argue that bilingual speakers cannot be assumed to be 'normatively' speaking either language A or language B. They could also have adopted the use of both languages as the medium (Gafaranga, 1998, 1999, 2000). To demonstrate the need for such an attitude, the paper looks at four of the most influential accounts of language alternation, namely the work of Fishman, Gumperz, Myers-Scotton and Auer. It shows that these accounts fail to capture the orderliness of language alternation because they approach bilingual conversations, not with an attitude of indifference, but from a normative framework whereby every instance of language alternation is defined in terms of language separateness. Key words: language alternation, language separateness, normative framework. Aneta
Pavlenko Until recently, sociolinguistic approaches to the study of second language learning focused on the role of language variation and linguistic interaction in the learning process. In the past few years, several scholars argued for the broadening of the scope of sociolinguistic inquiry in SLA. In accordance with this call and with recent developments in the field of sociolinguistics, the present paper examines the issue that remains ignored in mainstream SLA -access to linguistic resources of the second language. It is argued that the L2 learners' and users' linguistic, racial, ethnic, gender, cultural and social identities mediate access to linguistic resources and interactional opportunities in the L2. Key words: second language learning; interaction; access; linguistic, racial, ethnic, gender, cultural and social identities; non-native speaker (NNS) status; linguistic resources.
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