The French-Speaking World

Ball, Rodney; Marley, Dawn

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“…Finland-Swedes, like many other linguistic minorities, thus become doubly stigmatised; from the perspective of the state, they are second-language speakers of the majority language, and, additionally, their variety is considered inferior to the standard variety of that language (Gal 2006). For further reading on ideological standards and legitimacy in pluricentric languages, see, for instance, Ball and Marley (2017) for a comprehensive overview of the French-speaking world; the study by Hawkey and Mooney (2019) on new speakers and standardisation of Catalan and Occitan in France; and the discussion by Li Wei and Zhu Hua (2010) on linguistic standards and hierarchy in the Chinese diaspora.…”

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Bilingualism, ideology and identity

Strandberg¹,

Gooskens²

2022

Linguistic Choices in the Contemporary City

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Bilingualism, ideology and identity

Strandberg¹,

Gooskens²

2022

Linguistic Choices in the Contemporary City

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English and Bivalent Class Indexicality in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Valentinsson¹

2020

Handbook of the Changing World Language Map

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Research on the relationship between language use and class has typically focused on how one feature, or a set of features, indexes a single, specific class identity or positionality. This chapter expands sociolinguistic understandings of language and class through a focus on the use and avoidance of English among young adults in Argentina. Despite the status of Spanish as the national language of Argentina, the long-standing political and cultural relationship between Argentina and Great Britain has historically linked English to social types and positions seen as elitist, privileged, and snobbish. In more recent years, the spread of "English as a/the global language" discourse has led to a revalorization of English as a marker of education and positively valued upward social mobility. Young adults in Argentina must contend with the implications of both of these discourses in their own linguistic negotiation of class identity. While they may at times use English in their everyday speech to index an upwardly mobile, globally oriented positionality, they also modulate when and where they use English to avoid being labeled as snobbish or elitist. The data of this chapter illustrate how elements of English use can simultaneously index contrasting class identities. More broadly,

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The French-Speaking World

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Bilingualism, ideology and identity

Bilingualism, ideology and identity

English and Bivalent Class Indexicality in Buenos Aires, Argentina

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