Contradictions of standard language in Europe: Implications for the study of practices and publics*

Gál, Susan

doi:10.1111/j.1469-8676.2006.tb00032.x

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“…In each case, the community is aware and ready to acknowledge and respect the other. In western sociolinguistic terms, speakers are encountering and interacting with each other and creating 'publics' once a message starts to circulate (Gal 2006). Speakers participate in publics by such means, sometimes aligning themselves with what they repeat, thereby authorising it; at other times distancing themselves from public messages, thereby de-legitimating the texts and their erstwhile speakers.…”

Section: Vaa and Language Usementioning

confidence: 99%

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Nurturing Relationships And Honouring Responsibilities: A Pacific Perspective

Thaman

2008

Int Rev Educ

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This essay contributes a Pacific Islands perspective to the global discussion of ''Living Together: Education and Intercultural Dialogue''. Through poetry and prose, this essay traces the impact of the Tongan concept of vaa (values/valued relationships) on learning and language. By invoking UNESCO's mandate to build peace through education, the concept of vaa is shown to be a key to promoting peace. The challenges and prospects of nurturing peace through international cooperation in education are discussed with examples drawn from the Pacific. Specifically, Tonga's social and linguistic histories provide avenues for interpreting Pacific educational ideals in relation to Western concepts of knowing and learning. Reflection on cultural literacy in the Pacific context raises deeper questions about the role of educators when working interculturally. Lessons to be learned include the oft-quoted maxim that educators must first learn about their own culture before learning about others', and before imposing their own pedagogies and curricula on others' education systems.Re´sume´-CONSOLIDER LES RAPPORTS ET RENDRE HONNEUR AUX RESPONSABILITÉ S : UNE PERSPECTIVE SUR LE PACIFIQUE -cet essai contribue, avec une perspective sur les ıˆles du Pacifique, a`la discussion globale de « vivre ensemble : É ducation et Dialogue Interculturel ». En poe´sie et en prose, cet essai trace l'impact du concept tongien du vaa (valeurs/rapports e´value´s) sur l'apprentissage et le langage. En e´voquant le mandat de l'UNESCO pour e´tablir la paix par l'e´ducation, le concept du vaa s'ave`re eˆtre une clef favorisant la paix. Les de´fis et les perspectives de la consolidation de la paix par le biais d'une coope´ration internationale dans le domaine de l'e´ducation sont discute´s avec des exemples tire´s du Pacifique. De manie`re spe´cifique, les histoires sociales et linguistiques du Tonga fournissent des voies d'acce`s pour interpre´ter les ide´aux e´ducatifs du Pacifique par rapport aux concepts occidentaux du savoir et de l'apprentissage. La re´flexion sur l'instruction culturelle dans le contexte du Pacifique soule`ve des questions plus profondes au sujet du roˆle des e´ducateurs lorsque ceux-ci travaillent interculturellement. Les lec¸ons a`apprendre incluent la maxime souvent cite´e que les e´ducateurs doivent d'abord apprendre de leur propre culture avant d'en apprendre d'autres, et avant d'imposer leurs propres pe´dagogies et programmes d'e´tudes aux syste`mes d'e´ducation des autres.

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Section: Vaa and Language Usementioning

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“…The significance of social characteristics of language for developing peaceful negotiations in the wider global arena is a particularly challenging concept (Gal 2006).…”

Section: Vaa and Language Usementioning

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Nurturing Relationships And Honouring Responsibilities: A Pacific Perspective

Thaman

2008

Int Rev Educ

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“…Within this context, European nationalist grammarians began to see heterogeneity in language practices as an impediment to the creation of national subjects (Gal, 2006). It was, therefore, deemed necessary to create a codified, standardized language to cleanse the language of perceived impurities.…”

Section: A Brief History Of Monoglossic Language Ideologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Dynamic Bilingualism as the Norm: Envisioning a Heteroglossic Approach to Standards‐Based Reform

2014

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Abstract:Standards-based reforms in many Anglophone nations have been informed by monoglossic language ideologies that marginalize the dynamic bilingualism of emergent bilinguals. Recent developments in applied linguistics that advocate for heteroglossic language ideologies offer an alternative for standards-based reform. This article argues that standards-based reform initiatives will not be able to address the needs of emergent bilingual students unless they create ideological spaces that move away from monoglossic language ideologies toward heteroglossic language ideologies and implementational spaces that provide concrete tools for enacting this vision in the classroom. With a particular focus on the Common Core State Standards in the U.S. context, the article develops a vision for standards-based reform that begins to affirm and build on the dynamic bilingualism of emergent bilingual students. Specifically, the article explores two classrooms and the New York State Bilingual Common Core Initiative as starting points for theorizing how to develop ideological and implementational spaces that infuse heteroglossic language ideologies into standards-based reform initiatives while also emphasizing the role of monoglossic approaches to assessments in ultimately undermining the attempts that are currently being made. Many Anglophone nations have adopted standards-based educational reform initiatives that include English language learners (henceforth referred to as emergent bilinguals 1 ). These reform initiatives are often framed as necessary for preparing students for our increasingly globalized

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“…Competing and incommensurate language ideologies are clearly in effect across the EU at different scales. EU language policy has put new emphasis on multilingualism, putting forth the desirability of fluency in multiple languages-described by scholars as MULTISTANDARDISM-as a European ideal (Gal 2011;Moore 2011). But empirical research has shown this ideal to be constrained by a territorial focus on national standards, leading to the neglect of immigrant languages and nonstandard varieties (LINEE 2010;Rindler Schjerve & Vetter 2012).…”

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“…I conclude with a discussion of the contradictions that become evident in European language ideologies when one considers them from the viewpoint of these young minority speakers. The curious transformation of linguistic practices among young Carinthian Slovenes can be investigated by considering how language is regimented and indexicalized at different places within the nation-state (Silverstein 2003a;Gal 2005), in other words, by looking at which language ideologies are at play and where. Language ideologies are 'the ideas with which participants frame their understanding of linguistic varieties and the differences among them, and map those understandings onto people, events, and activities that are significant to them' (Irvine & Gal 2000:36).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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‘People here speak five languages!’: The reindexicalization of minority language practice among Carinthian Slovenes in Vienna, Austria

Weichselbraun¹

2014

Lang. Soc.

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This article investigates the transformation of minority language practice in the light of changing European language ideologies. Following a group of young Carinthian Slovenes from their rural hometowns to the capital of Vienna, this article analyzes their metadiscursive commentary about place and language in order to show how local language ideologies structure the indexical orders under which these individuals learn to assign meaning to linguistic practice. The data I present illustrates that these young members of a rurally stigmatized linguistic minority experience a transformation of their language-associated personhood in Vienna. There, their bilingualism allows them to be cosmopolitan participants in a European vision of mobile multilingual citizenship, while simultaneously troubling the language hierarchies erased by European language ideologies. (Linguistic minority, language ideology, indexical order, chronotopes, multilingualism, Carinthian Slovenes, Austria, Europe)

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Contradictions of standard language in Europe: Implications for the study of practices and publics*

Cited by 65 publications

References 23 publications

Nurturing Relationships And Honouring Responsibilities: A Pacific Perspective

Nurturing Relationships And Honouring Responsibilities: A Pacific Perspective

Dynamic Bilingualism as the Norm: Envisioning a Heteroglossic Approach to Standards‐Based Reform

‘People here speak five languages!’: The reindexicalization of minority language practice among Carinthian Slovenes in Vienna, Austria

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