Chapter 3. Minority Language Media and the Public Sphere

Guyot, Jacques

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“…olyan kezdeményezések, mint például a breton kereskedelmi televíziós csatorna kísérletea TV Breiz -kudarcra voltak ítélve (Guyot 2007, idézi: Moring 2013.…”

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Többnyelvűség, nyelvi asszimiláció, változó identitásépítési stratégiák a gradistyei horvátok egy magyarországi nemzetiségi településén

Huszár¹

2021

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“…olyan kezdeményezések, mint például a breton kereskedelmi televíziós csatorna kísérletea TV Breiz -kudarcra voltak ítélve (Guyot 2007, idézi: Moring 2013.…”

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Többnyelvűség, nyelvi asszimiláció, változó identitásépítési stratégiák a gradistyei horvátok egy magyarországi nemzetiségi településén

Huszár¹

2021

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“…Television brings into people's homes a vision of how a language may be used in various domains and may even provide opportunities and incentives for learning certain languages or, perhaps, not learning others (Ó Laoire 2001: 66-67). Although the contribution of media to promoting language acquisition remains a topic of debate, media are central to the representation of languages in the public sphere (Cormack 2007, Guyot 2007. As Ó hIfearnáin notes, "if a major part of the population never hears nor sees a minority culture on their television it ceases to be part of their reality.…”

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Swedish television as a mechanism for language planning and policy

Hult

2010

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The function of the public service broadcasting company Sveriges Television (Swedish Television) as a component of the Swedish ecology of language planning and policy is examined. Analysis of recent policy documents as well as data about television programming illuminates how television serves as a language planning mechanism. It is shown that television is explicitly framed as a tool for status planning through regulations about the relative positions of different languages in this domain. The management of content in Swedish, national minority languages, and other languages, in turn, suggests that Sveriges Television is also implicitly engaged in discourse planning that (re)produces the current linguistic hierarchy in Sweden through the representation of multilingualism.

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“…However, dominant groups may ideally provide adequate latitude and autonomy so that minority communities can have their desired media outlets. Yet, as Guyot (2007) puts it, few countries give full autonomy to their regional and local channels.…”

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Language Policy, Language Practices and Language Shift in Tabriz

Mirvahedi¹

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<p>This thesis examines how Azeri, a minority language with the largest number of speakers in Iran, is marginalized by de facto monolingual language policies of the state favoring Farsi, the only official language, over Azeri in the three selected domains. The research provides insights into how family language policies, i.e. attitudes, ideologies and practices in the home, are influenced by macro policies of multilingual nation-states, leading to language maintenance/shift among minority groups. The investigation adopted and integrated a number of complementary theoretical frameworks and paradigms. An ecology of language paradigm (Haugen, 1972; Hornberger & Hult, 2008; Mühlhäusler, 1996) was used to situate the research within a broader sociopolitical, historical and economic context. The ethnolinguistic vitality model (Giles, Bourhis, & Taylor, 1977), and language policy and planning (LPP) frameworks proposed by Shohamy (2006) and Lo Bianco (2005, 2008c, 2012a; 2013) were utilized to explore the complex interaction between macro level LPP activities and micro level attitudes and practices. The integrated model demonstrates how language policies implemented within state-run domains and institutions produce particular Discourses. The proposed framework further illustrates how such Discourses may influence people at the grass roots level which in turn could lead to language maintenance/shift in different communities and groups. The data base for the study comprised two phases: the first phase involved ethnographic observations of the public sphere (linguistic landscape data), language use in the home (three case studies), and the local channel for Azeris (media data), interviews with fifty children, and authorities of ten kindergartens and preschools. A focus-group interview was also conducted in this phase to assist with designing an attitude questionnaire which was administered in the second phase to 150 parents of young children. The empirical data suggests that family language policies among Azeris in Tabriz are constantly and increasingly influenced by monolingual policies of the state. The institutionalization and legitimization of Farsi through de facto LPP activities has resulted in formation of uncommitted, if not negative, attitudes among Azeri parents regarding their ethnic language. The analysis shows how a Farsi-only education system cajoles kindergarten principals into favoring Farsi over Azeri, leading them to suggest that parents and children speak Farsi in the home to ease their integration into the education system. The linguistic landscape data demonstrates the absence of Azeri both in top-down governmental and private individual signage indicating its low status compared to Farsi and English, the two prevalent languages in public signage in Tabriz. Exploring the broadcasting media suggests Azeris' inclination towards Farsi, and then in a second place, Turkish channels. As a result, having attracted only one percent of Azeri audience, the only available channel provided by the government for Azeris, Sahand TV, provides arguably no institutional support for Azeri. The findings suggest that although family members may be viewed as free agents to choose a particular language to speak in the home, in reality such choices are highly constrained by the ecology surrounding the home which is shaped by LPP decisions and activities. Overall, this thesis sheds light on the complex nature of language policy and planning in multilingual nation-states, and how they impact on language maintenance/shift processes among minority groups, whilst also illuminating how language ecologies are manipulated by nation-states to achieve particular non-linguistic goals.</p>

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Chapter 3. Minority Language Media and the Public Sphere

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Többnyelvűség, nyelvi asszimiláció, változó identitásépítési stratégiák a gradistyei horvátok egy magyarországi nemzetiségi településén

Többnyelvűség, nyelvi asszimiláció, változó identitásépítési stratégiák a gradistyei horvátok egy magyarországi nemzetiségi településén

Swedish television as a mechanism for language planning and policy

Language Policy, Language Practices and Language Shift in Tabriz

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