Free Your Stuff Luxembourg! Language policies, practices and ideologies in a multilingual Facebook group

“One does not say Moien, one has to say Bonjour”: Expressing Language Ideologies through Shifting Stances in Spontaneous Workplace Interactions in Luxembourg

“…There is also growing resentment by some Luxembourgish nationals at the increased use of French and the potential minoritization of Luxembourgish. This resentment is notably expressed on Facebook, as was shown by recent studies by Wagner () and de Bres and Belling () who investigate language ideological debates in a non‐language‐ focused Facebook group called Free your stuff . They show that “old” nationalist discourses are produced and reproduced by this group.…”

“…In this analysis, I focus on language ideologies and norms as they are negotiated and actualized in metalinguistic discourse in spontaneous face‐to‐face interactions, following a number of recent studies in multilingual contexts (de Bres and Belling ; Cekaite 2010; Evaldsson and Krishna Sharma 2014; Park ). I use the concept of stancetaking , defined as the act of “taking up a position with respect to the form or the content of one's utterance” (Jaffe :1), or as a “linguistically articulated form of social action whose meaning is to be construed within the broader scope of language, interaction and sociocultural value” (Du Bois :139).…”

“…Recent sociolinguistic research has documented a range of "new" language ideologies which have emerged in the wake of globalization and neoliberalism. One is that language and communication are no longer seen as only linked to identity, but as detachable and marketable resources that people can acquire just like any other skill (Duchêne 2009;Heller 2003), expressed in an ideology that de Bres calls "individual multilingualism as an opportunity" (de Bres 2014). However, research also evidences that these newer language ideologies do not supplant older, essentialist perceptions on the link between language and societies.…”

Castilian Takes Backstage in the Balearic Islands: The Activation of Catalan Standardization Recursions in Facebook

“…However, participation is also constrained by various forms of policing (Blommaert et al. ), which may be external (see Wang, Juffermans, and Du ) or internal (see de Bres and Belling ). In the latter case, members may negotiate through interaction the most valued linguistic capital within their communities, which thus operate as symbolic free markets (Bourdieu , 99).…”

Les frontaliers sur le marché linguistique luxembourgeois

“…Le luxembourgeois, par contre, à l'image d'autres langues locales en Europe et ailleurs, connaît une forte valorisation parmi les nationaux en tant que marqueur identitaire. La loi de 1984 peut être envisagée comme conséquence directe de ces revendications grandissantes (Horner 2007(Horner , 2011, tout comme son utilisation renforcée dans des domaines de l'écrit (et notamment dans les nouveaux médias), donc dans les domaines autrefois réservés à l'allemand et au français (De Bres et Franziskus 2014 ;De Bres et Belling 2015). Cela va de pair avec une perte de terrain partielle de l'allemand dans certains domaines.…”