Linguistic Authority, Language Ideology, and Metaphor

Bermel, Neil

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“…Vukotić, V. Conflicting notions of language in metalinguistic discourses in Lithuania, Norway and Serbia. Taikomoji kalbotyra 2014 (5), taikomojikalbotyra.lt Similar research has been carried out by Berthele (2008) for Switzerland, Milani (2007) for Sweden, Bermel (2007) for the Czech Republic, which has shown that the notions of language in language ideological debates are similar in many standard language cultures, as well as that they are influenced by a handful of ideas, which can be categorized into:…”

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Conflicting notions of language in metalinguistic discourses in Lithuania, Norway and Serbia

Vukotić

2015

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The article analyses the notions of language and their elements in metalinguistic comments taken from comment sections in online news portals from Lithuania, Norway and Serbia. The aim is to find and categorize different types of language notions. The goals were to analyse the elements of the notions of language and categorize them according to the metaphors found in the discourse. The empirical data was taken from comments under three news (three for each country), approximately 1640 comments were collected and the ones that contained metaphorical representations of language were analysed, 257 in total. The results show eight different notions of language, which are called: prescriptivist / authoritarian, instrumentalist, ethnolinguistic, communicative, essentialist, „personal identity“, elitist and constructivist. The last three notions are specific for only one of the environments and are discussed in greater detail. From the users’ perspective, the difference between the notions is based on several elements, most importantly: the place of language in society (what is the relationship to standard and non-standard varieties) perception of change and function and functionality of language. The results also show that notions of ‘pure language’ are connected not only to the ethnolinguistic notion of language (language as a part of the identity, change is understood as decay), but also with other varieties of language are connected with different (even opposing) ideals and practical concerns (language as a neutral tool of communication, as a separate organism, substance etc.), and, finally, those notions of language, where the differentiation between the varieties of language is not important, is only connected with the communicative function (communicative notion of language – language is communication). Speaking about language ideologies in general, results show that there are of language in which standard language ideology (according to Milroy 2001) is negatively valued.

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Conflicting notions of language in metalinguistic discourses in Lithuania, Norway and Serbia

Vukotić

2015

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“…Aunque me he referido a las facciones Fundarvid y Fenascol, quiero reiterar que la forma en que se presentan las discusiones no se reduce a "dos bandos". Las representaciones sobre la lengua (o lo que tradicionalmente la literatura llama "ideologías lingüísticas", Bermel, 2006;Riley, 2012;Kroskrity, 2004) son el motor de distintas dinámicas de una lengua que tenga vitalidad como la lsc. Estas ideologías, no tienen un comportamiento simétrico, segmentado o antagónico.…”

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Fundarvid y Fenascol: notas sobres sus neologismos en la formación de la LSC

Barreto-Muñoz

2015

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En Colombia existe un debate abierto sobre cómo las personas sordas deberían crear nuevas palabras (neologismos) en el lengua de señas colombiana (LSC). Las propuestas de la Fundación Árbol de Vida han generado diversas tensiones al interior de la comunidad sorda bogotana asociada a la Federación Nacional de Sordos de Colombia, en particular sobre un elemento que poco ha sido explorado: la adquisición, enseñanza y aprendizaje de la LSC, lo que se ha optado aquíenglobar como ‘formación’. El presente artículo, presenta los avances de dos investigaciones realizadas por el autor que detallan la complejidad de las prácticas sociales de las personas sordas frente las polémicas en torno a la innovación enla lsc y su interrelación con las creencias en torno al ideal de lengua.

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“…On the spelling reform and its aftermath, seeJohnson 2000Johnson , 2002Johnson , 2005aJohnson , 2005b. For a recent study of overlap of Czech spelling reform and linguistic nationalism, seeBermel 2007. 6 WIR gegen die Rechtschreibreform; website dating from 1997.…”

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Linguistic Purism, Protectionism, and Nationalism in the Germanic Languages Today

McLelland

2009

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This paper re-examines the notions of "linguistic purism" and "linguistic nationalism" with respect to public discourses of language cultivation in recent years in a number of Germanic-speaking countries (Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, and, briefly, Norway). In particular, the paper considers domain protection and attitudes to spelling variability and spelling reform. While in Germany linguistic nationalism and linguistic purism meet in speaker attitudes towards loanwords and spelling reform, in other Germanic-speaking countries linguistic nationalism may also take different forms, and linguistic purism may have other targets and motivations.

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Linguistic Authority, Language Ideology, and Metaphor

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Conflicting notions of language in metalinguistic discourses in Lithuania, Norway and Serbia

Conflicting notions of language in metalinguistic discourses in Lithuania, Norway and Serbia

Fundarvid y Fenascol: notas sobres sus neologismos en la formación de la LSC

Linguistic Purism, Protectionism, and Nationalism in the Germanic Languages Today

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