Containing Castilian in Catalan Talk Radio: Heteroglossia and the Projection of Monoglot Identities

Frekko, Susan E.

doi:10.1353/anq.2011.0017

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“… 2 A partial list includes Woolard (1999), Jaffe (2000), Pennycook (2003), Chun (2004), Hall (2005), Coupland (2009), Frekko (2011), Moriarty & Pietikäinen (2011), Androutsopoulos (2012), Queen (2012), Pietikäinen & Dlaske (2013), and. Jaworski (2014).…”

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Introduction: Heteroglossia, performance, power, and participation

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In this special issue, we 1 build on Bauman's seminal observation about performance, that 'the act of expression is put on display, objectified, marked out to a degree from its discursive surrounding and opened up to interpretive scrutiny and evaluation by an audience ' (2000:1). More recently, scholars have moved to examining the performative role of heteroglossia, that is, the use of multiply sourced, semiotic (verbal and nonverbal) forms. 2 In particular, this line of research has shown how attention to heteroglossic performances and their local interpretations can illuminate the subtle politics of dominant and nondominant identities in different ethnographic contexts. This is particularly true of what Coupland (2007) calls 'high performances', which, as Bell & Gibson (2011:558) write, are privileged sites for allowing participants to indexically associate expressive forms with social personae. Thus, while all performances are inherently reflexive, heteroglossic performances particularly amplify that reflexivity with respect to their multiple frames, voices, and stances that they presuppose and establish.The articles in this special issue thus investigate the diversity of heteroglossic resources, associated processes of social identification, participation frameworks, and political implications at stake in performance. The articles examine how performers evoke, stage and implicitly evaluate recognizable voices from the larger social world, and how audiences respond to and display their recognition of performers' aesthetically and politically charged stagings of those voices. As a collection, the articles then also explore how people use sets of semiotic resources to gradiently challenge and/or reinscribe normative ideologies and locally recognized, hierarchically organized identity categories.

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“…They appear in narratives as actors seek to create a sense of what constitutes consistent linguistic behavior and particularly in occasions when events appear incongruent with the traditional expectations. They also linger, as Frekko (2011) observes, in the ways in which speakers "contain responsibility" in code-switches into Castilian. In a situation like this, where the old and the new coexist, we argue that de-ethnicization is gaining ground by showing that the old patterns of language choice based on ethnic ascription are only followed by a minority.…”

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Linguistic ‘mudes’ and the de-ethnicization of language choice in Catalonia

Pujolar

Gonzàlez

2013

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

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Catalan speakers have traditionally constructed the Catalan language as the main emblem of their identity even as migration filled the country with substantial numbers of speakers of Castilian . Although Catalan speakers have been bilingual in Catalan and Castilian for generations, sociolinguistic research has shown how speakers' bilingual practices have always been sensitive to keeping a clear sense of the boundaries between the languages and between their communities of speakers. The norms of language choice in everyday life have reflected this as Catalans have tended to use Catalan basically between those considered to "be" Catalan. This paper shows that this situation is gradually changing due to new conditions of mobility and access to language, that is, because most native speakers of Castilian are now bilingual and speak Catalan often in everyday life. On the basis of a corpus of 25 interviews and 15 group discussions conducted in Catalonia with a sample of young people of different profiles, we show that young people in Catalonia increasingly rely on prima facie linguistic behavior rather than ethnolinguistic classification to decide which language to speak in specific contexts, so that language use loses its earlier function of ethnolinguistic boundary maintenance.

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“…These code-shifts seem to align participants in the interaction with broader visions of who belongs to the Italian nation state (the insiders—Veneto speakers who can share the code) and who does not (the outsiders—the migrant groups) (for insiders/outsiders relationships see also Jaffe, this issue). This multilingual language play in the Veneto region, and in Italy more generally, has analogues elsewhere in Europe, as Frekko's (2011) work, for example, demonstrates. Drawing on Woolard's (1995, 1998a, 1998b) work on bilingualism and code-switching between Catalan and Castilian in Spain, Frekko demonstrates that the use of the state language Castilian in a Catalan radio talk show can be a strategy of containment.…”

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“…Drawing on Woolard's (1995, 1998a, 1998b) work on bilingualism and code-switching between Catalan and Castilian in Spain, Frekko demonstrates that the use of the state language Castilian in a Catalan radio talk show can be a strategy of containment. While Catalan is supposed to be the language of the talk show, Frekko (2011:83) notes a significant use of Castilian in the interactions between the host and the callers. Thus, although Castilian is not ‘proscribed’ in Catalonia, she argues that this code is used creatively by certain speakers while ‘simultaneously containing it’, at their discretion, and creating bonds with only certain speakers who understand the code.…”

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Performingextracomunitari: Mocking migrants in Venetobarzellette

Perrino¹

2015

Lang. Soc.

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In Italy, barzellette are short funny stories that speakers perform in various social events with large groups of friends, relatives, or colleagues. In Northern Italy, where a strong anti-immigration platform has been implemented by two influential political parties of the Veneto region, barzellette are performed to represent certain immigrant groups, especially the so-called extracomunitari. In this article, I examine the performative power of multidialectal language play in race-based humor through an analysis of two such joking events. I show how Veneto speakers perform barzellette in their local language, Veneto dialect, to mock immigrant voices, using approaches that purport, not necessarily in a deliberate fashion, to ‘contain’ or ‘conceal’ their racist remarks in their local code. In this way, they sharpen an exclusionary divide between an ‘us’, as insiders, as the local speakers of this language, and a ‘them’, as outsiders, or the immigrant ‘others’, who do not share this code. I thus examine issues of covert racist discourse within an ‘unmarked’ framework in which race and racializing discourses are embedded in social and cultural patterns. (Code-shifting, jokes, Lega Nord, migration, race, racialized discourse, Veneto dialect)*

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Containing Castilian in Catalan Talk Radio: Heteroglossia and the Projection of Monoglot Identities

Cited by 11 publications

References 29 publications

Introduction: Heteroglossia, performance, power, and participation

Introduction: Heteroglossia, performance, power, and participation

Linguistic ‘mudes’ and the de-ethnicization of language choice in Catalonia

Performingextracomunitari: Mocking migrants in Venetobarzellette

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