Ebonics, language revival, <i>la qualité de la langue</i> and more: what do we have to say about the language debates of our time?

Heller, Monica

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“…Porém, o quadro onde tais questões de língua(s) são levantadas quase não é o da Linguística atual na França. Talvez não se possa dizer o mesmo de todos os lugares, a julgar pela existência de trabalhos teóricos como os de Blommaert (1999) ou da linguistic anthropology americana, que retomam textos e temas fundamentais; ou pela formulação de debates práticos e públicos como os apresentados em Heller (1999).…”

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1977: Em Torno de Um Momento-chave do Surgimento da Sociolinguística na França

Gadet

2015

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Resumo: Em 1977, um número da revista francesa de Linguística Langages, que tratava do marrismo, desempenhou, no contexto acadêmico francês, um papel determinante no surgimento de uma nova subdisciplina da Linguística, a Sociolinguística. Examinam-se aqui, de modo geral, as modalidades de surgimento de uma nova subdisciplina (fatores negativos e fatores positivos) e o papel que os grandes debates temáticos exercem neste domínios. Especificamente, situam-se alguns dos atores desse processo dos anos 1970, procura-se compreender a relação com as teorias anteriores, sobretudo a oposição aos estudos saussurianos), examina-se a proximidade/confrontação com a Análise do Discurso, outra subdisciplina nascida no mesmo momento e que compartilha grande parte dos atores. Busca-se, por outro lado, compreender questões veiculadas por essa nova disciplina, que se estabelece a partir de uma relação entre a reflexão de Linguística geral e intervenção social do cidadão-linguista.

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1977: Em Torno de Um Momento-chave do Surgimento da Sociolinguística na França

Gadet

2015

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“…One perennial issue that has haunted sociolinguists for decades concerns the way(s) in which they engage in the public realm. The “Dialogue” section of one of the earliest issues of the Journal of Sociolinguistics contains a number of sharp reflections by experts recounting their own experiences when venturing outside the normally safer grounds of the ivory tower (see, e.g., Heller, 1999; Laforest, 1999). The conception of publics, however, is an evolving and complex one (Bauman, 1987; Giddens, 1991).…”

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Sociolinguists and their publics: Epistemological tension and disciplinary contestation over language in Catalonia

Erdocia

Soler

2021

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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This article aims to investigate the relationship of sociolinguists with the publics in Catalonia and to disentangle the complex interrelationships among academics within the discipline. By examining material from mainstream media outlets and data from interviews with a selected number of sociolinguist scholars, we show how the public sphere is a site in which competing epistemological and disciplinary visions contest for discursive dominance in language‐in‐society matters, institutional authorization, and resources. Rather than seeing the engagement of sociolinguists with publics as a disinterested activity of knowledge dissemination and the provision of facts, we argue that the publics are better conceived as a terrain toward which sociolinguists direct institutional, disciplinary, and professional interests. Ultimately, our article contributes to a more encompassing understanding of ourselves as sociolinguists.

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A War of Words

Suleiman

2004

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Yasir Suleiman's 2004 book considers national identity in relation to language, the way in which language can be manipulated to signal political, cultural or even historical difference. As a language with a long-recorded heritage and one spoken by the majority of those in the Middle East in a variety of dialects, Arabic is a particularly appropriate vehicle for such an investigation. It is also a penetrating device for exploring the conflicts of the Middle East, the diversity of its peoples and the diversity of their viewpoints. Suleiman's book offers a wealth of empirical material, and intriguing, often poignant illustrations of antagonisms articulated through pun or double entendre.

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Ebonics, language revival, la qualité de la langue and more: what do we have to say about the language debates of our time?

Cited by 28 publications

References 3 publications

1977: Em Torno de Um Momento-chave do Surgimento da Sociolinguística na França

1977: Em Torno de Um Momento-chave do Surgimento da Sociolinguística na França

Sociolinguists and their publics: Epistemological tension and disciplinary contestation over language in Catalonia

A War of Words

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