Carnavalesk taalgebruik en de constructie van lokale identiteiten

Abstract

This article aims to encourage the interdisciplinary study of ‘languaculture,’ an approach to language and culture in which ideology, linguistic and cultural forms, as well as praxis are studied in relation to one another. An integrated analysis of the selection of linguistic and cultural elements provides insight into how these choices arise from internalized norms and values, and how people position themselves toward received categories and hegemonic ideologies. An interdisciplinary approach will stimulate a rethinking of established concepts and methods of research. It will also lead to a mutual strengthening of linguistic, sociolinguistic, and anthropological research. This contribution focuses on Limburg and the linguistic political context of this Southern-Netherlands region where people are strongly aware of their linguistic distinctiveness. The argument of the paper is based on a case study of languaculture, viz. the carnivalesque song ‘Naar Talia’ (To Italy) by the Getske Boys from the city of Heerlen.

Belonging through Languagecultural Practices in the Periphery

“…In focusing on language or, rather, languageculture, we wish to learn about how people use language and cultural resources in processes of identification and the creation of belonging. As we define it, languageculture is that complex whole made up of language practices, informed by cultural beliefs, and necessarily co-articulated by bodily practices and the deployment of material cultural resources (Cornips et al 2012;see also Agar 1994: 60). The study of how languagecultural stuff is put into use and what its effects are must rely on descriptive and analytic techniques developed in the fields of material culture studies, media studies and the broad field of linguistic anthropology (which in its present incarnation is informed by theories, methods and concepts from discourse analysis, conversation analysis, formal linguistics and sociolinguistics).…”

“…The conversations in this pub revolve around three topics: beer, women and soccer/football, which are the most important topics of the Getske Boys' songs too (cf. Cornips et al 2012). In 2008, they made their first hit, with the carnival song 'Oh Temara' (theme: women).…”

“…Heerlen Dutch, therefore, may be regarded as an anomaly, as finding itself in the margins (cf. Cornips 1994;Cornips et al 2012). In Limburg there are many more or less denigrating nicknames to denote Dutch spoken in Heerlen and its speakers.…”

“…Cornips et al 2012). (This case study emerged from online research conducted from 2008 to 2014 as well as a halfday group interview with the Getske Boys on the afternoon of 11 May 2013).…”

Het belang van taalkeuze voor het sociaal kapitaal in Nederland

“…Er is sprake van meer integratie in een samenleving als mensen uit groepen 'van bovenaf' gedefinieerd -zoals jongeren versus ouderen, hoger en lager opleidings-en inkomensgroepen, mensen met een verschillende religieuze, culturele of nationale achtergrond -binding hebben met en vertrouwen hebben in elkaar en zich dus in een voortdurend proces met elkaar, van 'onderaf' , sociaal, etnisch, religieus en/of regionaal identificeren. Daarvoor moeten deze personen ideeën, gevoelens en meningen met elkaar uitwisselen (Cornips, de Rooij & Stengs, 2012). Sociaal kapitaal wordt gevormd door sociale netwerken van individuen, en taalkeuze en taalgebruik zijn cruciaal in sociale gebeurtenissen waar het gevoel van ergens 'bij te horen' ontstaat en waar groepsidentiteiten en dus sociale relaties ontstaan die al dan niet bestendigd worden (Cornips, de Rooij, & Stengs 2012;Eckert 2012).…”