Heteroglossia and Boundaries

Bailey, Benjamin

doi:10.1057/9780230596047_12

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“…They realized that divergences from this ideal standard were considered less desirable in certain contexts, which illustrates the power differences between the majority and the minority (Bailey 2007). Here is what Timur (male, aged 14, Dutch-Turkish) said about it: Timur:…”

Section: Young People's Position In Relation To Ethnic Boundariesmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Similarly, we also saw a number of young people speaking to their parents in Dutch while the parents replied in their mother tongue. As Bailey (2007) pointed out, language is the primary way in which people can represent and negotiate social reality. Through language, people can position themselves in the social world; in other words, language is an important part of their identity formation.…”

Section: Young People's Position In Relation To Ethnic Boundariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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‘You shouldn't blame religion … but the person’ – the ethnic boundary work of young second-generation migrants in Rotterdam

Visser

2016

Children's Geographies

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In the Netherlands, as in most other western European countries, the desirability and the governability of a multicultural society are topics of debate. In the last decade, this debate has increasingly centred on second-generation migrants, focusing on their high rates of crime and school drop-out. In the Dutch context, however, little scholarly research has paid attention to second-generation migrants' own experiences. In this paper, I therefore focus on the perceptions of ethnic boundaries held by 12-to 19-year-old second-generation migrants and how they negotiate these boundaries in the low-income, multi-ethnic Feijenoord area of Rotterdam. The study shows that young people are used to living together with many different cultures and see themselves as being on both sides of the ethnic boundary between the Dutch-majority society and the culture of their parents. However, they also encounter prejudice and discrimination in their day-to-day lives, which calls into question the success of multiculturalism.

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Section: Young People's Position In Relation To Ethnic Boundariesmentioning

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Section: Young People's Position In Relation To Ethnic Boundariesmentioning

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‘You shouldn't blame religion … but the person’ – the ethnic boundary work of young second-generation migrants in Rotterdam

Visser

2016

Children's Geographies

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“…For García (2009) a translanguaging approach to teaching and learning has the potential to liberate the voices of language-minoritised learners. Alongside 'translanguaging', a number of other terms have been coined to describe emerging multilingual practices, such as 'polylingualism' (Jørgensen, 2008), 'metrolingualism' (Otsuji & Pennycook, 2010) and 'heteroglossia' (Bailey, 2007 Language users employ whatever linguistic features are at their disposal to achieve their communicative aims as best they can, regardless of how well they know the involved languages; this entails that the language users may know -and use -the fact that some of the features are perceived by some speakers as not belonging together. (Jørgensen, Karrebaek, Madsen & Moller, 2011, p. 34) Such an analytic gaze enables a better understanding of how people select different resources and what motivates their choices.…”

Section: Language Learning In Contexts Of Forced Migration: Theoreticmentioning

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Towards a repertoire-building approach: multilingualism in language classes for refugees in Luxembourg

Kalocsányiová

2017

Language and Intercultural Communication

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“…AlvarezCaccamo (1996) and Koven (2001) argue that a speaker's choice of code, particularly for quoted speech, is a strategy for performing different kinds of local identities which index a range of social meanings and relationships of "camerade-rie, distance, dominance, or resistance" (Alvarez-Caccamo 1996:34), but that the retrieval of these meanings by the audience depends upon the existence of shared linguistic ideologies. Bailey (2007, after Bakhtin 1981, argues for a view of code-switching as a form of 'heteroglossia because the meanings code-switching may generate frequently reflect political and socio-historical associations that the code or variety has acquired over the years. Koven (2001:528) makes the same argument in relation to code switches for reported dialogue when she states that quoted speech is "a site for displaying and evaluating special, local kinds of social voices".…”

Section: Code-switchingmentioning

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Code-switching

Bock

2011

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This article analyses the function that code-switching plays in selected testimonies given at South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission which followed the country's transition to democracy in 1994. In a number of testimonies, victims of human rights abuse under Apartheid code-switched into Afrikaans when recalling particularly offensive uses of language by the police. Within the code-switching literature, it is well recognised that a speaker's choice of code, particularly for quoted speech, is a strategy for performing different kinds of local identities which index a range of social meanings and relationships (AlvarezCaccamo 1996, Koven 2001. Thus code-switching may serve a complex evaluative function although the meanings it generates are very context-dependent. In order to explore this role in the testimonies in this paper, I use the appraisal theory of Systemic Functional Linguistics (Martin & White 2005). I argue that on a number of occasions, code-switching into a particular variety of Afrikaans is used by testifiers as a strategy to invoke negative judgement: it has the effect of associating the police with a particular racist ideology and positioning them for our sanction. Further, it works together with other engagement resources to insert a recognisable historical voice into the text, thereby expanding the heteroglossic nature of the discourse while simultaneously allowing the speakers to signal their rejection of that voice and the ideologies it represents. In the current SFL literature, however, code-switching has not been noted as an appraisal resource. In the light of the examples from the TRC testimonies, I argue that, in multilingual contexts, code-switching has the potential to invoke complex evaluative meanings and should be included in the appraisal framework as an evaluative resource.

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Heteroglossia and Boundaries

Cited by 221 publications

References 19 publications

‘You shouldn't blame religion … but the person’ – the ethnic boundary work of young second-generation migrants in Rotterdam

‘You shouldn't blame religion … but the person’ – the ethnic boundary work of young second-generation migrants in Rotterdam

Towards a repertoire-building approach: multilingualism in language classes for refugees in Luxembourg

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