Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1017/s0047404523000039
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1017/S0047404522000756
Paola Gabriela Konrad
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1017/S0047404522000768
Clara Cantos Delgado
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1017/S004740452200077X
Dallel Sarnou
number of details provided and the size of the region (i.e. national, regional, local). Yet, some meaningful results were still discovered and are summarized below. Nationally, the most prominent distinction observed was the division between the people in the north (e.g. Yankees, talk fast) and those in the south (e.g. country, slow), even if some other regions were also occasionally commented upon (e.g. Californians as ‘surfer dudes’). Then, the focus is set on the American South, a heavily labelled region, even by southerners themselves and repeatedly associated with negative stereotyping (e.g. hicks, hillbillies). However, to dissociate themselves from the stigmatized southern stereotypes often popularized by the media (rural, twang), while at the same time being able to maintain their southern identity, participants often resorted to the conceptualization ‘us vs. them’, designed to establish that ‘we are southern but not THAT type of southern’. An example of this can be seen in how Kentuckians from Louisville placed the negative southern stereotypes in the Appalachian region (e.g. redneck). Finally, it should be mentioned that the application of the status vs. solidarity dichotomy (i.e. ‘friendly but stupid’) was also highly extended, and southerners frequently labelled other southerners as good people but not ones with whom they strongly self-identified. Noteworthy, the authors have themselves experienced the application of this conceptualization in the Southern university setting in which professors were sometimes perceived as less qualified if they make use of expressions such as ‘y’all’, and students from Eastern Kentucky were known to be teased because of their accents. In sum, this book intends to elucidate the different perceptions that people have of other linguistic varieties to provide the knowledge which will then give users the power to make informed decisions when they encounter linguistic diversity in their everyday lives.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1017/s0047404522000744
Joseph Comer
Toril Opsahl’s chapter on the limited presence of Polish as a minority language within Oslo’s LL. The issue of using a migrant language, an official language, or both is also present in Michelle Harrison’s chapter on signs in hyperdiverse Leicester, which investigates public and private actors’ motivations for (not) using Gujarati. Luk Van Mensel discusses a square in Brussels being renamed after Congolese politician Patrice Lumumba and explores how changes in the LL can create feelings of inclusion and empowerment for ethnic and linguistic minorities such as Belgium’s Congolese diaspora. Similarly, Robert Blackwood’s chapter on Breton language activists in France shows minority language speakers using direct action to problematise the absence of their language, contest the LL, and empower themselves. Finally, Andry Sophocleous extends the discussion to multidialectism, with preschool teachers in Cyprus empowering their students by allowing them to speak Cypriot Greek as they gradually learn Standard Modern Greek. This volume’s diverse chapters all demonstrate multilingualism’s potential to transform society and empower certain speakers. In their conclusion, the editors rightly point out that work on empowerment is more relevant than ever in today’s world. This excellently edited book not only achieves considerable progress with regards to examining multilingualism and empowerment, but will likely serve as inspiration for future work on these topics—both within and outside of Europe.
Toril Opsahl关于波兰语作为少数民族语言在奥斯陆LL中的有限存在的章节。米歇尔·哈里森（Michelle Harrison）关于莱斯特过度多样化的标志的一章中也提到了使用移民语言、官方语言或两者兼而有之的问题，该章调查了公共和私人行为者使用（不）古吉拉特语的动机。Luk Van Mensel讨论了布鲁塞尔一个以刚果政治家Patrice Lumunba的名字重新命名的广场，并探讨了LL的变化如何为比利时的刚果侨民等少数族裔和语言群体创造包容和赋权的感觉。同样，罗伯特·布莱克伍德（Robert Blackwood）关于法国布列塔尼语活动家的章节显示，少数民族语言使用者使用直接行动来质疑他们的语言缺失，质疑LL，并赋予自己权力。最后，Andry Sophocleous将讨论扩展到多语主义，塞浦路斯的幼儿园教师通过允许学生在逐渐学习标准现代希腊语的过程中说塞浦路斯希腊语来增强学生的能力。本卷的不同章节都展示了多语制在改变社会和赋予某些演讲者权力方面的潜力。编辑们在结论中正确地指出，在当今世界，赋予权力的工作比以往任何时候都更加重要。这本编辑精良的书不仅在研究多语制和赋权方面取得了相当大的进展，而且可能会激励欧洲内外未来在这些主题上的工作。
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Pub Date : 2023-01-31DOI: 10.1017/s0047404522000677
Janet E. Connor
This article explores how modes of listening and ideologies of democratic action are intertwined, through the example of a multicultural neighborhood in Oslo, Norway. While much work on language and democracy focuses on speakers, this article instead interrogates how a government listens to citizens, and how different conceptualizations of what listening is index different understandings of democratic action. While the Oslo municipality sees listening as a form of legitimation for governmental policymaking, local residents try to create a more open form of listening, which they see to be a better way of addressing the needs of a more diverse citizenry. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with municipal employees, neighborhood organizations, and residents, the analysis focuses on the participation frameworks and interactional genres that my interlocutors take to be instances of democratic listening, and how listening practices are intertwined with imaginations of a more inclusive future. (Listening, democracy, participatory politics, Norway)*
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Pub Date : 2023-01-31DOI: 10.1017/s0047404522000665
Gegentuul Baioud
This article analyzes the sociolinguistic construction of two gendered figures in multilingual performances, namely a category of young Mongol wives in rural societies who challenge patriarchal social order, and a group of young urban Mongol men whose dream is to be rich and indulge themselves in luxury. By drawing on the analytical framework of stance and stylization, the study analyzes how the performers’ multivalent stance-taking towards constructed personas and specific social-moral orders are communicated through their skillful stylization of multilingual resources in Inner Mongolia. It also points out that language stylization and stance-taking, taking place in reference to local cultural values and linguistic ideologies, are anchored in continually evolving ethnic, gender, and class relationships in a changing, minoritized Mongolian society in the context of Chinese modernization and capitalist marketization. (Stance-taking, language stylization, gendered discourses, Mongols, multilingualism)*
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Pub Date : 2023-01-31DOI: 10.1017/s0047404522000720
Chiara Ardoino
Standardisation is often touted as the default means to improve attitudes towards minoritised languages and prevent/reverse their obsolescence. However, standardisation can ‘tamper’ with the indexicalities of minoritised languages, potentially alienating their speakers. Two aspects of standardisation stand out as particularly problematic: the shift from ‘ideologies of authenticity’ to ‘ideologies of anonymity’ (Woolard 2016), and the resulting introduction/intensification of prescriptivism (Eckert 1983). Although much literature focuses on the irreconcilable nature of these ideologies, I show that their discursive manifestations are neither clear-cut nor always incompatible. First, I analyse a TV debate on the standardisation of Martinican Creole (MC), in which the fault-line between authenticity and anonymity is blurred and partially overcome. Next, I draw on a Martinican activist's Instagram profile to show how various discursive strategies and a positive take on language variation can help promote MC as an ‘anonymous’ language without forgoing its ‘authenticity’ or openly stigmatising spontaneous practices. (Minoritised languages, Creoles, Martinique, maintenance, standardisation, ideologies of authenticity, anonymity, prescriptivism, purism, Abstand)*
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Pub Date : 2023-01-11DOI: 10.1017/s0047404522000690
Jaime Benheim, Annette D'Onofrio
Research on Jewish English in the United States has drawn on a set of ideologies linking the Jewish ethnolinguistic repertoire to New York City English, but less is known about how these ideologies interface with the social meanings of regional features in the communities outside New York in which these speakers live. Through meta-linguistic commentary and acoustic analyses drawn from sociolinguistic interviews with white Jewish and Catholic Chicagoans, we find that meta-linguistic ideologies associate Jewish speakers with New York City English and white Catholic speakers with ‘local’ Chicago features. However, in actual production, these linguistic differences appear to be driven by neighborhood rather than ethnoreligious identity alone. We argue that while meta-linguistic commentary may re-circulate broader linguistic ideologies, the uptake of elements of the ethnolinguistic repertoire may depend on the social meanings of those features in the local community more broadly, including class- and place-linked variation. (Ethnolinguistic repertoire, place, Northern Cities Shift, Jewish English)*
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