Luxembourgish Language-in-Education Policy in Limbo: The Tension Between Ideologies of Authenticity and Anonymity

Weber, Jean-Marie

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“…Turning what are mostly spoken, informal varieties into standard languages means taking them out of their original niche(s), overhauling the way they are used and potentially alienating and stigmatising their traditional speakers (Eckert 1983). Across the minoritised language literature, authenticity and anonymity are usually presented as opposed ideologies and incompatible goals in language planning, even when it is acknowledged that they can coexist within the same communities (Weber 2016;Woolard 2016;O'Rourke & Brennan 2019). In this perspective, a minoritised language community can either accept the reality of diglossia whilst enjoying the linguistic creativity and 'covert' prestige ('solidarity') afforded by an uncodified, geographically rooted language or, alternatively, resort to standardisation to increase the status of the language, at the paradoxical risk of disenfranchising the very speakers it aims to empower.…”

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Navigating the pitfalls of language standardisation: The imperfect binary of authenticity and anonymity in Creole-speaking Martinique

Ardoino

2023

Lang. Soc.

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Standardisation is often touted as the default means to improve attitudes towards minoritised languages and prevent/reverse their obsolescence. However, standardisation can ‘tamper’ with the indexicalities of minoritised languages, potentially alienating their speakers. Two aspects of standardisation stand out as particularly problematic: the shift from ‘ideologies of authenticity’ to ‘ideologies of anonymity’ (Woolard 2016), and the resulting introduction/intensification of prescriptivism (Eckert 1983). Although much literature focuses on the irreconcilable nature of these ideologies, I show that their discursive manifestations are neither clear-cut nor always incompatible. First, I analyse a TV debate on the standardisation of Martinican Creole (MC), in which the fault-line between authenticity and anonymity is blurred and partially overcome. Next, I draw on a Martinican activist's Instagram profile to show how various discursive strategies and a positive take on language variation can help promote MC as an ‘anonymous’ language without forgoing its ‘authenticity’ or openly stigmatising spontaneous practices. (Minoritised languages, Creoles, Martinique, maintenance, standardisation, ideologies of authenticity, anonymity, prescriptivism, purism, Abstand)*

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Navigating the pitfalls of language standardisation: The imperfect binary of authenticity and anonymity in Creole-speaking Martinique

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2023

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Codification in the shadow of standards: ideologies in early nineteenth-century metalinguistic texts on Luxembourgish

Bellamy

2024

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The Oxford Handbook of the French Language

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Luxembourgish Language-in-Education Policy in Limbo: The Tension Between Ideologies of Authenticity and Anonymity

Cited by 40 publications

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Navigating the pitfalls of language standardisation: The imperfect binary of authenticity and anonymity in Creole-speaking Martinique

Navigating the pitfalls of language standardisation: The imperfect binary of authenticity and anonymity in Creole-speaking Martinique

Codification in the shadow of standards: ideologies in early nineteenth-century metalinguistic texts on Luxembourgish

The Oxford Handbook of the French Language

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