Chapter 6. On Some Structural Aspects of Norwegian Spoken among Adolescents in Multilingual Settings in Oslo

Opsahl, Toril; Nistov, Ingvild

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“…The fact that young people with Norwegian-born (grand)parents also use this speech style, as evidenced by research, is entirely erased (e.g. Aarsaether 2010;Opsahl 2009;Opsahl and Nistov 2010;Svendsen and Røyneland 2008). The iconisation of the link between kebabnorsk and young people with a 'minority background' thus projects an image of these youths almost as if unemployment is necessarily determined by their biological or cultural essence (cf.…”

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“…This view neglects the immense social and linguistic diversity found among speakers, and undermines individual agencies by failing to report that the adolescents are aware of, and actively differentiate between, contexts in which to use these speech styles (e.g. Opsahl and Nistov 2010;Marzo and Ceuleers 2011;Madsen and Svendsen 2015;Svendsen and Røyneland 2008). The adolescents in the UPUS/Oslo-project, for instance, spoke more 'standard-like' in the interview with the researchers than in the peer conversations (Opsahl and Nistov 2010).…”

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“…Opsahl and Nistov 2010;Marzo and Ceuleers 2011;Madsen and Svendsen 2015;Svendsen and Røyneland 2008). The adolescents in the UPUS/Oslo-project, for instance, spoke more 'standard-like' in the interview with the researchers than in the peer conversations (Opsahl and Nistov 2010). The vast linguistic diversity within spoken Norwegian and Dutch is ignored or erased, including variation within dialects in general and within dialects in Oslo and Flanders in particular, as well as the variation in the alleged 'standard' Norwegian and 'standard' Dutch, which are projected as a kind of default way of talking.…”

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“…Stroud 2004, the exotic speaker of kebabnorsk and Citétaal". The media, in other words, paints a rather limited picture of the alleged language users and fails to report that these practices represent optional speech styles in use independently from 'boxes' such as 'minority' and 'majority' youth, as borne out in sociolinguistic research (Aarsaether 2010;Marzo and Ceuleers 2011;Opsahl 2009;Opsahl and Nistov 2010;Svendsen and Røyneland 2008).…”

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“…Aarsaether 2010; Opsahl and Nistov 2010;Svendsen and Røyneland 2008), and in the easternmost province of Flanders (Limburg), often referred to as Citétaal ('Cité language' or 'Cité Dutch') (Marzo and Ceuleers 2011, Marzo forthc. ), and; 2) what values and personal characteristics or (in)activities are in media discourse ascribed to these alleged ways of speaking and to their purported speakers?…”

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A 'new' speech style is bornThe omnipresence of structure and agency in the life of semiotic registers in heterogeneous urban spaces Abstract: The aim of this paper is to contribute to the sociolinguistic discussion about the need for a unified sociological theory, by applying realist social theory (RST) (Carter and Sealey, this volume) to the total linguistic fact (TLF) (Silverstein 1985) or to the semiotics of 'new' speech styles in heterogeneous urban spaces. We explore, with data from Belgium (Flanders, Limburg) on Citétaal and Norway on so-called kebabnorsk, the ways structure and agency are omnipresent in the enregisterment of these semiotic registers. Through media discourse analyses, we investigate essential parts of this enregisterment process, in particular the invention and diffusion of labels and the assignment of stereotypical indexical values to these speech styles and to their alleged speakers. We demonstrate, in line with other studies, that media in interplay with scholars is a key force in the enregisterment of these speech styles. In the analysed media discourse, kebabnorsk and Citétaal are constructed as a 'mixed language', as a countable and uniform entity, the use of which inevitably results in unemployment. The alleged language users are constructed as a homogeneous group, namely 'young people with migrant backgrounds'. It is shown that social structure, including asymmetric power relations and language hegemonies, are omnipresent in the valorisation of these registers and that media discourses rely on language ideologies of unity and purity, ideologies central to a monolingual orientation. We advocate a translingual orientation towards language and communication in which communication transcends languages and involves negotiation of mobile resources. This orientation captures the ontology of language and communication and has, as such, the potential to empower the language users' individual agencies. Bente A. Svendsen: Professor of Norwegian as a second language and Scandinavian linguistics and the Deputy Director of MultiLing Centre for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan, MOUTONBrought to you by | Harvard University Authenticated Download Date | 6/29/15 10:28 AM grijke schakel vormt in het enregisterment van de deze omgangsvormen. Zo blijkt dat kebabnorsk en Citétaal worden geconstrueerd als 'mengtalen', als telbare en uniforme entiteiten, waarvan het gebruik onvermijdelijk leidt tot werkloosheid. De vermeende gebruikers van deze registers worden ook beschouwd als een specifieke en homogene groep, namelijk de 'jongeren met een migratie-achtergrond'. We tonen aan dat de sociale structuur, waaronder asymmetrische machtsverhoudingen en taalhegemonieën, fundamenteel is in de valorisatie van deze taalregisters en dat het media discours gebaseerd is op taalideologieën van eenheid en zuiverheid, die typerend zijn voor een monolinguale visie op taal. Ten slotte pleiten we voor een translinguale visie die de ontologie van taal en communicatie dekt en meer aandacht schenkt aan de agency...

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Chapter 6. On Some Structural Aspects of Norwegian Spoken among Adolescents in Multilingual Settings in Oslo

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