In response to the limitations of the nationstate as a conceptual frame for the study of linguistic landscapes ll, this article argues for a transnational approach that accounts for the material reconfigurations and symbolic reimaginations of space in the context of global flows and migrations appadurai, 1996. Language regimes in transformation by florian coulmas. Their essays contribute to an understanding of the role of language ideologies and discursive practices in state formation, nationalism, and the maintenance of ethnic groups, on the one hand, and in the creation. The language of authoritarian regimes home facebook. In the international arena, they no longer compete with english, but their status in their home countries and as foreign languages in third countries is in flux. This possibility is what makes language regimes inherently political. The routledge handbook of language and politics 1st. The chapter will introduce you to thestudyof language and communication, as well as the methods of analysis used by those who work in this field. Under the new regime, all workers must file a weekly report. There are also other historical languages in canada, particularly the languages of aboriginal and metis peoples, some of which have official status in the federal territories. Chapter 7 provides a detailed presentation of the language regimes of wipos division dealing with patents, the patent cooperation treaty division, and illustrates how the language regimes both in the. Kroskrity the concept of language ideologies has proved useful in this volume as a mode of analysis that permits a new appreciation of the role of language in the formation of both national and ethnic identities.
It argues that regimentation, a term possibly more. On the basis of a discussion of this problem, the article proposes that the iso 639 family of standards, issued by the international organization for standardization iso, amounts to the backbone of an emerging global regime of language recognition. Authoritarianism primarily differs from totalitarianism in that social and economic institutions exist that are not under governmental control. Special resolution regimes a in the event insert name of party or parties that are covered entities becomes subject to a proceeding under a u. Language regimes in the provinces and territories ebook. The language regime may also constrain the position of a political regime on a leftright or egalitarianauthoritarian spectrum. Scotton chapter 2 distinguishes language regimes according to two main dimensions.
Inequality regimes processes, actions, and meanings that result in and maintain class, gender and race inequalities within particular organizations. Parents and grandparents views on home language regimes. They have political consequences as well as political origins. Childrens representations of minority language education minority language education initiatives often aim to resist dominant language regimes and to. Grasping the regimes of language, space and identity in the visual of post. Political discourse and historical, colonial and neo. The seminar brought together some of the leading scholars in language ideology research. This is a list of totalitarian states the list distinguishes between totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, listing the former and not the latter. In state traditions and language regimes, scholars from asia, europe, and north america shift focus from the consequences of language policies to how and why states make language policy choices. Language regimes compendium of language management in. Building on existing analytical frameworks, this book provides a new methodology allowing different language policies in international multilingual organisations or language regimes to be compared and evaluated on the basis of criteria such as efficiency and fairness.
Ideologies, polities, and identities school for advanced research advanced seminar series kroskrity, paul v. Despite the inherent difficulty of tackling topics pertaining to multiple disciplines, michele gazzola manages to bring together the theory, methodology and application of language regime evaluation, and he does so with remarkable consistency using the tools of economic analysis. Additionally, migration plunges people into new language regimes on a regular basis around the world. Grasping the regimes of language, space and identity in. Irvine and susan gal identify in their language ideology and linguistic differentiation 3583 three semiotic processes that operate worldwide in language ideologies. Likewise, the implications of linguistic relativity for second language learning will raise questions as to whether second language issues at other levels e. Language ideologies in the expression and representation of. The protest on june 12, which saw the first rounds of tear gas and rubber bullets fired by police in the movement, was officially designated a riot by the government. In this text, ten linguistic anthropologists integrate two often segregated domains. This introduction seeks to problematize the notion of regimes of language with respect to how the term regimentation is used in the other social sciences, and with respect to language ideologies. For example, the language regime of the epo, based on three official languages, namely, english, french and german, makes the average cost of accessing patent.
In a 1988 decision, the supreme court of canada affirmed that language is not an independent matter of legislation. One of them is the transformation of language regimes. Language regimes and acts of citizenship in multilingual. Jun 02, 2002 other essays in this collection deal with the influence of the indonesian language on the shaping of modern indonesian culture, the construction of the tongan nationstate through language ideology in the courtroom, and the sharp cleavage between the traditional language ideology of a cultural group in papua new guinea and the modern ideologies. This book provides an indepth account of how two secondtier languages, japanese and german, are affected by this process. Generally he does so through employees or representatives of various governments. Exclusion as language and the language of exclusion. Key terms idiolect language community language language conventions arbitrary sign iconic sign fluency communicative competence critical period universal grammar linguistics descriptive linguistics overview in this chapter youll learn about the complex relationship between language and identity. Language ideologies and trajectories of two multilingual families in sweden josep soler a and tim roberts b adepartment of english, stockholm university, stockholm, sweden. In regimes of language, ten leading linguistic anthropologists integrate two often segregated domains. For further information, please see our upc leaflet pdf or contact the lawyers listed near the bottom of each alert.
A comparative analysis of vietnam and china article pdf available in comparative politics 434 february 2010 with 1,180 reads. Jan 01, 2011 in the british india of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a particular figure emerged. Speech action, collective assembly, and the politics of recognition in india lisa mitchell pages 4154. This shift, theorized through the concept of language regime. Mar 29, 2010 social language processing slp is introduced as an interdisciplinary approach to assess social features in communications by terrorist organizations and authoritarian regimes. Their essays contribute to an understanding of the role of language ideologies and discursive practices in state formation, nationalism, and the maintenance of ethnic groups, on the one hand, and in the creation of national, ethnic, and professional identities, on the other. Regimes of language consists of revised versions of the papers presented at the seminar.
This volume brings together some of the leading scholars in language ideology research. Found in several sanskrit and pali texts that were translated into english for the express purpose of enabling british colonial governance in south asia, this specter seemed to haunt the colonial imaginary. Language should not be given such special status in the formation of ones identity. Origins of language3 in view of what has been said, it is not surprising that there is a shortage of introductory surveys of this topic from a linguistic point of view.
Until now i have spoken about the reasons why language related conflicts take place and the issues usually at stake in them. The investigation of language and its communicational functions is treated as a concern shared in common by those working in applied linguistics, child development, cultural studies, discourse analysis, intellectual history. The implications of linguistic relativity for language. Special resolution regime, the transfer of this agreement and any interest and. Speech action, collective assembly, and the politics of recognition in india. Inequality regimes processes, actions, and meanings that result in and maintain class, gender and. Institutions and inequality in singleparty regimes. The first assignment will be a 2 page reaction to an introductory reading. This journal is unique in that it provides a forum devoted to the interdisciplinary study of language and communication. Introduction through several empirical studies, this special issue seeks to question the theoretical relevance of the notion of regimes of language, or linguistic regimes. The day aimed to explore the creation, dissemination and reception of discourse in regimes commonly considered to be authoritarian from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Project muse exclusion as language and the language of. Gatitu kiguru kenyatta university, kenya and phyllis mwangi. Mcgillqueens university press state traditions and. As a result, it links the theoretical analysis of the abovementioned areas with the characteristics and description of selected rhetorical devices applied by the language for politics. Language regimes and acts of citizenship in multilingual luxembourg. To fill the gaps in the existing indicators, this paper presents new crosscountry policy indicators of insolvency regimes for 36 countries, based on countries responses to a recent oecd questionnaire. Language ideologies in the expression and representation of arizona tewa identity paul v. It addresses the role of language ideologies in state formation, nationalism and the maintenance of ethic groups, as well as the creation of national, ethnic and professional indentities. The potential economic impact of language regimes should not be underestimated. The ability to use language, perhaps more than any other attribute, distinguishes humans from other animals but what does it mean to know a. By doing this, however, i have only covered one set of elements necessary for the understanding and evaluation of language regimes or finding the criterion of the optimal language regime. Ideologies, polities, and identities school of american research advanced seminar series by paul v. Keywords regimes of language, language ideologies, standardization, power 1. There will be six homework assignments total, as well as a final paper.
Where nationality is contested or controlled a particular language may be. Transnational linguistic landscapes and the transgression of. Totalitarianism is an extreme version of authoritarianism. A way to think about the concrete, simultaneous production of class, gender, and race. In 1949 when indonesia became independent of the dutch, in the face of nearly 712 distinct languages, it chose malay renamed bahasa indonesia, the mother tongue of a small minority, rather than javanese. Language regimes and corporeal practices of making known. Pdf institutions and inequality in singleparty regimes. Inequality regimes much societal inequality originates in work organizations. The regimes can be mapped on a matrix along two dimensions. Pdf language and totalitarian regimes magda stroinska. Th e book includes results of a european integrated project called dylan language dynamics and management of diversity. Language is a vehicle of communication, but it is also a potential tool for demarcating group boundaries. The slp paradigm represents a rapprochement of theories, tools and techniques from cognitive science, communications, computational linguistics, discourse processing. A large part of canadas language regime history is to understand how english and french have become the countrys two official languages.
In state traditions and language regimes, scholars from asia, europe, and north america shift focus from the consequences of language policies to how and why states make language policy choices the state being the main governing actor of language policy choices. On february 12 2016, steph wright who works on veterans of the spanish civil war and i held a conference on the language of authoritarian regimes. State traditions and language regimes by linda cardinal. Language ideologies in the expression and representation. Linguistic manipulation linguistic theory, language and politics, language and power.