Abstract In this article, I reflect on the future of macro-sociolinguistic research from a global-south perspective. I discuss the role that activism has played in scholarly work, and how such activism was hampered by persistent ideologies of ‘thingification’; that is, ideologies that created languages and nations as ‘objects’ (to be managed and controlled by states and local/national/global elites). I ground the history of such discourses in colonialism-capitalism. I further explore the global and local regimes of language that were created through the dehumanizing violence of colonialism-capitalism, as well as the alternative futures that have been imagined by all those who resisted – and continue to resist – this violence. I conclude with some thoughts on temporalities, on the different relationships with, and to, time and the urgency of the present.
{"title":"Pasts, presents and futures: discourses of colonization and decolonization","authors":"Ana Deumert","doi":"10.1515/soci-2022-0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soci-2022-0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this article, I reflect on the future of macro-sociolinguistic research from a global-south perspective. I discuss the role that activism has played in scholarly work, and how such activism was hampered by persistent ideologies of ‘thingification’; that is, ideologies that created languages and nations as ‘objects’ (to be managed and controlled by states and local/national/global elites). I ground the history of such discourses in colonialism-capitalism. I further explore the global and local regimes of language that were created through the dehumanizing violence of colonialism-capitalism, as well as the alternative futures that have been imagined by all those who resisted – and continue to resist – this violence. I conclude with some thoughts on temporalities, on the different relationships with, and to, time and the urgency of the present.","PeriodicalId":55923,"journal":{"name":"Treballs de Sociolinguistica Catalana","volume":"751 1","pages":"23 - 34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76907519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract While language policy and planning studies are a separate research field in sociolinguistics, they must develop in line with empirical and theoretical findings presented in the other branches of sociolinguistics. The distinctiveness of language policy and planning research lies in its interest in language management, while language practices and language attitudes, beliefs, and ideologies are also objects of study in sociolinguistics in general, as well as in other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Language policy and planning studies benefit from work carried out in other research traditions, and this relationship can be mutually beneficial if there is mutual will to exchange ideas, models and approaches. The position argued for in the present contribution is that it can be wise for language policy and planning researchers to take Spolsky’s work on language policy still further, particularly his fundamental assumption that language policy has three interrelated yet independent components, namely language practices, language beliefs, and language management. In doing so, language policy and planning studies can be sure to be at once firmly rooted in a wider research context, while their distinctiveness as a separate sub-field of sociolinguistics is underscored.
{"title":"Language policy research directions embedded in the sociolinguistic enterprise","authors":"A. Kristinsson","doi":"10.1515/solin-2022-0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/solin-2022-0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract While language policy and planning studies are a separate research field in sociolinguistics, they must develop in line with empirical and theoretical findings presented in the other branches of sociolinguistics. The distinctiveness of language policy and planning research lies in its interest in language management, while language practices and language attitudes, beliefs, and ideologies are also objects of study in sociolinguistics in general, as well as in other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Language policy and planning studies benefit from work carried out in other research traditions, and this relationship can be mutually beneficial if there is mutual will to exchange ideas, models and approaches. The position argued for in the present contribution is that it can be wise for language policy and planning researchers to take Spolsky’s work on language policy still further, particularly his fundamental assumption that language policy has three interrelated yet independent components, namely language practices, language beliefs, and language management. In doing so, language policy and planning studies can be sure to be at once firmly rooted in a wider research context, while their distinctiveness as a separate sub-field of sociolinguistics is underscored.","PeriodicalId":55923,"journal":{"name":"Treballs de Sociolinguistica Catalana","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75106337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract While language policy and planning studies are a separate research field in sociolinguistics, they must develop in line with empirical and theoretical findings presented in the other branches of sociolinguistics. The distinctiveness of language policy and planning research lies in its interest in language management, while language practices and language attitudes, beliefs, and ideologies are also objects of study in sociolinguistics in general, as well as in other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Language policy and planning studies benefit from work carried out in other research traditions, and this relationship can be mutually beneficial if there is mutual will to exchange ideas, models and approaches. The position argued for in the present contribution is that it can be wise for language policy and planning researchers to take Spolsky’s work on language policy still further, particularly his fundamental assumption that language policy has three interrelated yet independent components, namely language practices, language beliefs, and language management. In doing so, language policy and planning studies can be sure to be at once firmly rooted in a wider research context, while their distinctiveness as a separate sub-field of sociolinguistics is underscored.
{"title":"Language policy research directions embedded in the sociolinguistic enterprise","authors":"A. Kristinsson","doi":"10.1515/soci-2022-0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soci-2022-0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract While language policy and planning studies are a separate research field in sociolinguistics, they must develop in line with empirical and theoretical findings presented in the other branches of sociolinguistics. The distinctiveness of language policy and planning research lies in its interest in language management, while language practices and language attitudes, beliefs, and ideologies are also objects of study in sociolinguistics in general, as well as in other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Language policy and planning studies benefit from work carried out in other research traditions, and this relationship can be mutually beneficial if there is mutual will to exchange ideas, models and approaches. The position argued for in the present contribution is that it can be wise for language policy and planning researchers to take Spolsky’s work on language policy still further, particularly his fundamental assumption that language policy has three interrelated yet independent components, namely language practices, language beliefs, and language management. In doing so, language policy and planning studies can be sure to be at once firmly rooted in a wider research context, while their distinctiveness as a separate sub-field of sociolinguistics is underscored.","PeriodicalId":55923,"journal":{"name":"Treballs de Sociolinguistica Catalana","volume":"31 1","pages":"111 - 123"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86068720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract After more than half a century, sociolinguistic research on language maintenance and shift has developed in different directions depending on the type of speech community it focuses on. The similarities between “indigenous” as autochthonous and “migrant” as allochthonous languages undergoing shift have often been overlooked and the two have been treated differently. Such a division not only reflects a much-debated dichotomy between “old” and “new” minorities in political and legal scholarship, but is also linked to different legal and institutional treatments of such minorities and their languages. However, at a time when the mobilities paradigm has become an integral aspect of sociolinguistic scholarship, there is a need to rethink the way in which sociolinguists have come to terms with migration so far, including a highly problematic and artificial separation of different types of linguistic community based on perceived migrational status. Such a rethink is needed in order to be able to provide more contextualized analyses of locally specific sociolinguistic realities, which can rarely be determined on the basis of widely assumed categorizations.
{"title":"Rethinking some terminological and disciplinary boundaries in researching language maintenance and shift (in the context of migration and beyond)","authors":"L. Šimičić","doi":"10.1515/solin-2022-0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/solin-2022-0011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract After more than half a century, sociolinguistic research on language maintenance and shift has developed in different directions depending on the type of speech community it focuses on. The similarities between “indigenous” as autochthonous and “migrant” as allochthonous languages undergoing shift have often been overlooked and the two have been treated differently. Such a division not only reflects a much-debated dichotomy between “old” and “new” minorities in political and legal scholarship, but is also linked to different legal and institutional treatments of such minorities and their languages. However, at a time when the mobilities paradigm has become an integral aspect of sociolinguistic scholarship, there is a need to rethink the way in which sociolinguists have come to terms with migration so far, including a highly problematic and artificial separation of different types of linguistic community based on perceived migrational status. Such a rethink is needed in order to be able to provide more contextualized analyses of locally specific sociolinguistic realities, which can rarely be determined on the basis of widely assumed categorizations.","PeriodicalId":55923,"journal":{"name":"Treballs de Sociolinguistica Catalana","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73667729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract After more than half a century, sociolinguistic research on language maintenance and shift has developed in different directions depending on the type of speech community it focuses on. The similarities between “indigenous” as autochthonous and “migrant” as allochthonous languages undergoing shift have often been overlooked and the two have been treated differently. Such a division not only reflects a much-debated dichotomy between “old” and “new” minorities in political and legal scholarship, but is also linked to different legal and institutional treatments of such minorities and their languages. However, at a time when the mobilities paradigm has become an integral aspect of sociolinguistic scholarship, there is a need to rethink the way in which sociolinguists have come to terms with migration so far, including a highly problematic and artificial separation of different types of linguistic community based on perceived migrational status. Such a rethink is needed in order to be able to provide more contextualized analyses of locally specific sociolinguistic realities, which can rarely be determined on the basis of widely assumed categorizations.
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Abstract Globalisation and late-modernity have brought profound socio-political, economic, cultural as well as linguistic transformations. An intensification of mobility and transnational migration around the globe has added a complexity to linguistic interactions and repertoires that can be better analysed with non-essentialist approaches. With this in mind, the aim of this article is to expand the research agenda on pluricentricity beyond the standard language paradigm, which is based on the western conceptualisation of languages as clearly definable and discrete entities. In this respect, we address pluricentricity from the speaker’s perspective as opposed to the traditional perspective focused on standard-setting centres and peripheries. In this article, we adopt a communicative-based perspective on pluricentricity and focus on the potential accommodation behaviour of Spanish speakers from Argentina and Spain in mobility contexts. We conducted 39 semi-structured interviews to access perceptions and attitudes regarding the possible negotiations of short-term convergent norms and the creation of a spontaneous translanguaging space. We assume that awareness of one’s own repertoire as well as tolerance towards the perceived markers of the respective interlocutors’ repertoire are necessary conditions for successful pluricentric communication.
{"title":"Pluricentric communication beyond the standard language paradigm: perceptions of linguistic accommodation between speakers from Argentina and Spain in a mobility context","authors":"Carla Amorós-Negre, Rolf Kailuweit, Vanessa Tölke","doi":"10.1515/soci-2021-0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soci-2021-0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Globalisation and late-modernity have brought profound socio-political, economic, cultural as well as linguistic transformations. An intensification of mobility and transnational migration around the globe has added a complexity to linguistic interactions and repertoires that can be better analysed with non-essentialist approaches. With this in mind, the aim of this article is to expand the research agenda on pluricentricity beyond the standard language paradigm, which is based on the western conceptualisation of languages as clearly definable and discrete entities. In this respect, we address pluricentricity from the speaker’s perspective as opposed to the traditional perspective focused on standard-setting centres and peripheries. In this article, we adopt a communicative-based perspective on pluricentricity and focus on the potential accommodation behaviour of Spanish speakers from Argentina and Spain in mobility contexts. We conducted 39 semi-structured interviews to access perceptions and attitudes regarding the possible negotiations of short-term convergent norms and the creation of a spontaneous translanguaging space. We assume that awareness of one’s own repertoire as well as tolerance towards the perceived markers of the respective interlocutors’ repertoire are necessary conditions for successful pluricentric communication.","PeriodicalId":55923,"journal":{"name":"Treballs de Sociolinguistica Catalana","volume":"45 1","pages":"141 - 164"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73510388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract Drawing on the example of the French-speaking world, this article makes the case for the valuable contribution of a systematic ethics-based approach to understanding linguistic pluricentricity. Following a critical review of three key definitional dimensions of the concept - political, linguistic and representational/attitudinal - it argues for the inclusion of a fourth ethical dimension to assess whether there are moral arguments which might also favour the recognition of distinct national standards. It builds on the recent linguistic justice literature in the fields of political theory and political philosophy to propose the notion of “pluricentric linguistic justice” as a framework for evaluating the ethics of local norm-setting and enforcement in pluricentric contexts. To demonstrate how pluricentric linguistic justice might be assessed, it examines a series of valued-based arguments discussed in the linguistic justice literature relating to the instrumental and identity functions of language, considering how they might apply to specific contexts in the French-speaking world. Besides contributing to existing theory, the notion of pluricentric linguistic justice has the potential to help advance social equality, by drawing attention to some of the social and political injustices associated with diatopic variation in spatially diffused languages more generally.
{"title":"Pluricentric linguistic justice: a new ethics-based approach to pluricentricity in French and other languages","authors":"Leigh Oakes","doi":"10.1515/soci-2021-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soci-2021-0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Drawing on the example of the French-speaking world, this article makes the case for the valuable contribution of a systematic ethics-based approach to understanding linguistic pluricentricity. Following a critical review of three key definitional dimensions of the concept - political, linguistic and representational/attitudinal - it argues for the inclusion of a fourth ethical dimension to assess whether there are moral arguments which might also favour the recognition of distinct national standards. It builds on the recent linguistic justice literature in the fields of political theory and political philosophy to propose the notion of “pluricentric linguistic justice” as a framework for evaluating the ethics of local norm-setting and enforcement in pluricentric contexts. To demonstrate how pluricentric linguistic justice might be assessed, it examines a series of valued-based arguments discussed in the linguistic justice literature relating to the instrumental and identity functions of language, considering how they might apply to specific contexts in the French-speaking world. Besides contributing to existing theory, the notion of pluricentric linguistic justice has the potential to help advance social equality, by drawing attention to some of the social and political injustices associated with diatopic variation in spatially diffused languages more generally.","PeriodicalId":55923,"journal":{"name":"Treballs de Sociolinguistica Catalana","volume":"153 1","pages":"49 - 71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79682018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ying, Chen (2017): Eine Studie zur Verbreitung der chinesischen Sprache in der Gemeinschaft der ethnischen Chinesen in den USA. Wuhan: Wuhan University Press. 303 S.","authors":"Jin Zhao, Zheng Chen","doi":"10.1515/soci-2021-0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soci-2021-0018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55923,"journal":{"name":"Treballs de Sociolinguistica Catalana","volume":"19 1","pages":"298 - 302"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85666157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Peter, Benjamin (2020): L’Andalú - Sprache, Dialekt oder lokale Mundart? Zur diskursiven Konstruktion des Andalusischen (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, 444). Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. XIX + 415 S.","authors":"F. Tacke","doi":"10.1515/soci-2021-0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soci-2021-0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55923,"journal":{"name":"Treballs de Sociolinguistica Catalana","volume":"48 1","pages":"292 - 297"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78213581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bochmann, Klaus (ed.) (2020): Sprechen und Schreiben. Schriftsysteme und ihre linguistischen, kulturellen und politischen Dimensionen (Abhandlungen der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig Philologisch-historische Klasse, 84(6)). Stuttgart & Leipzig: S. Hirzel. 112 p.","authors":"Anna Mattfeldt","doi":"10.1515/soci-2021-0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/soci-2021-0014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55923,"journal":{"name":"Treballs de Sociolinguistica Catalana","volume":"16 1","pages":"279 - 282"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76020493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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