Language and Canadian Media

Vessey, Rachelle

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“…Using the corpus-linguistic software AntConc (Anthony, 2022), we conducted a study that broadly falls under the remit of corpus-assisted discourse studies -an approach that has, in recent years, proved to be highly insightful in research regarding language-related beliefs (e.g. Vessey, 2016;Jaworska & Themistocleous, 2018;Kircher & Kutlu, 2023). It combines corpuslinguistic procedures that effectively reveal discursive patterns in large amounts of data (Baker, 2010) with qualitative analyses that allow for nuanced meaning to be established in context (Vessey, 2017).…”

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The attitudes at the heart of multilingual family language policies

Kircher,

Brouillard,

Ahooja

et al. 2024

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Family language policies encompass three components: language beliefs, language practices, and language management. This study focuses on language beliefs, which we approach from an attitudes perspective, presenting a corpus-assisted discourse study of parental attitudes towards childhood multilingualism. Based on corpora (over 30,000 words) comprising 742 Quebec-based parents’ responses to an open-ended survey question, we analyse frequencies, collocations, concordance lines, and longer text segments. Our findings confirm the multidimensionality of parental attitudes, providing new insights into the nature of the three previously-established dimensions – that is, status, solidarity, and cognitive development – as well as revealing a potential fourth dimension: namely personality development. Moreover, the findings show systematic differences between parents transmitting multiple societal languages versus parents transmitting heritage languages alongside one/more societal languages. The study makes an important contribution to the family language policy framework and language attitude theory more generally, and it facilitates the development of support measures for different types of multilingual families.

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The attitudes at the heart of multilingual family language policies

Kircher,

Brouillard,

Ahooja

et al. 2024

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“…The examination of frequencies and collocations can be very fruitfully employed to study language ideologies in corpora. However, combining these quantitative corpus-linguistic procedures with qualitative data analysis yields even more nuanced insights by highlighting how ideologies function as naturalized assumptions that underlie discourse (Vessey 2016b). We thus considered qualitative data in the form of selected entire tweets and concordance lines that were created with AntConc's Concordance tool.…”

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Multilingual Realities, Monolingual Ideologies: Social Media Representations of Spanish as a Heritage Language in the United States

Kircher

Kutlu

2023

Applied Linguistics

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Little is known about how monolingual ideologies and their effects manifest in online contexts as compared to offline contexts. We conducted a corpus-assisted discourse study to investigate this, with a focus on Twitter representations of Spanish as a heritage language in the USA. We analysed two corpora (one English and one Spanish—over 30 million words), examining frequencies, collocations, concordance lines, and larger text segments. The results revealed evidence of the same ideologies found in offline contexts: normative monolingualism (drawing on the one-nation-one-language ideology and language purity ideologies) as well as raciolinguistic ideologies. We show how the semiotic processes of iconization and erasure lead to the (evidently erroneous) essentialization of Spanish heritage language speakers as a homogeneous group of un-American, racialized immigrants with broken language. This discursive creation of difference constitutes the basis for the systematic discrimination of Spanish heritage language speakers, thus reflecting and reproducing social inequality. Our findings therefore indicate the necessity of extending planning measures to protect heritage language speakers (and other minority groups) from offline contexts to online contexts.

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“…To obtain more nuanced insights, we complemented the use of quantitative corpus linguistic procedures with the qualitative examination of our data. This approach broadly fits under the remit of corpus-assisted discourse studies, and it has proved to be highly insightful in the examination of language ideologies (Jaworska & Themistocleous 2018;Kircher & Fox 2021;Vessey 2016). Specifically, we considered qualitative data in the form of selected concordance lines -that is, lines which 'present an individual lexical item within its "co-text" across numerous texts' (Vessey 2016:6) -created with AntConc's Concordance tool.…”

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Multilingual realities, monolingual ideologies: Social media representations of Spanish as a heritage language in the United States

Kircher¹,

Kutlu²

2022

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Little is known about how monolingual ideologies and their effects manifest in online contexts as compared to offline contexts. We conducted a corpus-assisted discourse study to investigate this, with a focus on social media representations of Spanish as a heritage language in the U.S. We analysed two corpora of Twitter data (one English, one Spanish – over 30 million words in total). We examined frequencies, collocations, concordance lines, and larger text segments. The results revealed evidence of the same ideologies found in offline contexts: normative monolingualism (drawing on the one-nation-one-language ideology and language purity ideologies) as well as raciolinguistic ideologies. We show how the semiotic processes of iconization and erasure lead to the (evidently erroneous) essentialisation of Spanish heritage language speakers as a homogeneous group of un-American, racialized immigrants with broken language. This discursive creation of difference constitutes the basis for the systematic discrimination of Spanish heritage language speakers, thus reflecting and reproducing social inequality. Our findings therefore indicate the necessity of extending planning measures to protect minoritized groups from offline contexts to online contexts.

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Language and Canadian Media

Cited by 20 publications

References 13 publications

The attitudes at the heart of multilingual family language policies

The attitudes at the heart of multilingual family language policies

Multilingual Realities, Monolingual Ideologies: Social Media Representations of Spanish as a Heritage Language in the United States

Multilingual realities, monolingual ideologies: Social media representations of Spanish as a heritage language in the United States

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