Identity Construction and Norms of Practice among Bilingual Ngoni in Rural Tanzania

Rosendal, Tove

doi:10.1080/10228195.2017.1367956

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“…On a general note, it indicated an undervalued Ngoni culture. A later study confirmed that the Ngoni identity is rather weak (Rosendal 2017).…”

Section: Earlier Researchan African Perspectivementioning

confidence: 70%

Speaking of tradition: how the Ngoni talk about value maintenance and change

Rosendal

2018

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

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This paper presents results from an ethnographically informed study based on focus group discussions where rural Ngoni farmers in the southern highlands of Tanzania voice their ideas about their cultural heritage, with a special focus on attitudes towards Ngoni culture and cultural changes. With a model based on Ehala [2009. "Connecting the Individual and Cultural Level Value Analysis: The Case of Utilitarianism vs. 094] this study investigates the relationship between the ideological system of a community and the social system of this community. This in-group perspective contributes to insight into values systems of rituals, taboos and traditions, including a case study of naming traditions. Earlier findings of extensive codeswitching between Swahili and other Tanzanian languages have had a language loss perspective. This study combines this focus with a new framework to investigate the relationship between the competing ideological and social systems. Changing practices have been attested. These seem to be mainly due to asymmetrical power differences and influences caused by modernity, globalisation and especially the nation-state. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…On a general note, it indicated an undervalued Ngoni culture. A later study confirmed that the Ngoni identity is rather weak (Rosendal 2017).…”

Section: Earlier Researchan African Perspectivementioning

confidence: 70%

Speaking of tradition: how the Ngoni talk about value maintenance and change

Rosendal

2018

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

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“…These studies crossed ethnic and national borders considering them to be elusive since people are no longer restricted to the confines of their regional and national boundaries. Given the complexities of current day multilingual contexts, it is not surprising that ethnic and national classification of identities are challenged, and languages are regarded as being fluid and dynamic rather than entities that can be classified into separate and discrete categories (Casas, 2008;Kebede, 2017;Rosendal, 2017).…”

Section: Code-switching and Identitymentioning

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“…The reason for merging the local and interactional layers is that there exist overlaps and fine differences between the two, hence blurring the categories. This is why many studies (e.g., Casas, 2008;Lamb, 2009;Rosendal, 2017) have used two major categories, the micro and macro. In this way, the micro world of interaction refers to the broader world of the speakers.…”

Section: Code-switching and Identitymentioning

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Identity Construction through Code-Switching Practices at a University in Pakistan

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Pillai

Sinayah

2020

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Code-switching can be used to express and create different meanings and ideologies, as well as different identities. Speakers can choose various codes in their linguistic repertoires to do these things. In academic settings in Pakistan, English is likely to be used with Urdu and regional languages, such as Pashto, resulting in the expression and construction of different identities. In order to examine the link between code-switching and identity in a multilingual academic setting, this paper examines the construction of identity that emerges from codeswitching practices among a group of lecturers and students at a university in Pakistan. Data were collected through recordings of interactions supplemented with semi-structured interviews, which were then ethnographically analysed from a micro-macro perspective. The findings revealed a seamless and dynamic use of code-switching, which was mainly in English and Pashto. The fluid nature of the code-switching makes it seem as if speakers have developed a different 'language' combining Pashto and English. Such use of code-switching reflects their socialisation in a multilingual and multicultural environment, which in turn, has led to the emergence of their hybrid identity orientations. The study contributes empirical evidence of the link between code-switching and hybrid identities in a multilingual context. The findings also imply that interactive practices should be examined from a dynamic micro-macro perspective because changes in the social environment can affect the thinking, perceptions, behaviours, and identity-orientations of the speakers.

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“…The phenomenon of identity has been studied extensively particularly in areas such as sociology, psychology, anthropology, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, cultural and communication studies. However, these researchers (Labov, 1966;Trudgill, 1974;Milroy & Milroy, 1978;Milroy, 1980;Mendoza-Denton, 2002;Bucholtz& Hall, 2005;Gonzales, 2009;Burnett (2017); Mora, 2017;Rosendal, 2017;Gündüz, 2017) who have studied this phenomenon in these fields suggest that the construction of identity through communication needs a separate investigation through the contemporary lens applied for the digital era. Therefore, this research focuses particularly on the strategies employed for constructing different identities such as regional, gender, tribal, religious through communication.…”

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Constructing Identities Online – An Exploratory Study of Saudi Youths’ Strategies

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Language is used not only for communication but also for enacting multiple identities to reveal information about oneself such as who we are, where we come from, who we believe in etc. This is done by means of using a tribe, gender, region or a country specific dialect, accent, sociolect, vocabulary or phrase to identify oneself with a specific tribe, gender, social class or ethnic group, a region or a nation. Greetings such as-'Assalamualeikum' ('peace be with you'), 'God bless', 'Shalom' ('peace') are used by people to identify oneself with a particular faith (Muslim, Christian and Jewish respectively). Thus, language use serves here as a means of constructing religious identity. Region and tribe specific dialects, accents and sociolects are also used to construct regional, social class, ethnic or tribal identities. This process of identity construction occurs both in the real world as well as in a virtual reality on-line, where people can either take their real identity with them or construct an on-line identity that can be as divergent as they wish. As on-line communication gains significance in everyone's life, research on the nature of this communication is required to uncover various underlying issues governing this type of communication. In this respect, the present study aimed to explore the strategies and ways in which language and other means were used by Saudi Arabian youths to construct and enact their various identities such as gender, social class, tribal, regional, religious etc. To this end, a social networking website was designed and Saudi youths (aged between 18 to 30 years) were invited to participate by posting and chatting online on the website. Of such posts, around 300 comments were selected for the content analysis. The analysis of these comments posted by 71 Saudi females and 85 males over two months revealed that Saudi youths used their language on-line to construct and enact their gender, tribal, regional, religious identities. Participants were seen to be using their tribe, region, gender, religion and Arab culture related words and phrases to construct and reveal their tribal, regional, gender, religious and cultural identities consciously and unconsciously.

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Identity Construction and Norms of Practice among Bilingual Ngoni in Rural Tanzania

Cited by 7 publications

References 12 publications

Speaking of tradition: how the Ngoni talk about value maintenance and change

Speaking of tradition: how the Ngoni talk about value maintenance and change

Identity Construction through Code-Switching Practices at a University in Pakistan

Constructing Identities Online – An Exploratory Study of Saudi Youths’ Strategies

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