Why ‘New’ Newspeak?: Axiological Insights into Language Ideologies and Practices in Poland

Duszak, Anna

doi:10.1057/9780230523883_7

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“…Over time the language gained a symbolic status and came to be viewed as the foundation that kept the oppressed community together. Thus, as described by Duszak (2006)…”

Section: Figurementioning

confidence: 92%

Trilingual repertoires, multifaceted experiences: multilingualism among Poles in Norway

Obojska

2019

International Multilingual Research Journal

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This article examines multilingual repertoires of adult and adolescent Poles living in Norway. The study draws on language portraits and interviews conducted with 14 adults and 12 adolescents living in and around Oslo. The article first discusses multilingualism of the research participants through an analysis of the 26 portraits and then zooms in on the drawings and interview data provided by one family in order to shed light on the ways the participants experience and construct the roles of their different linguistic resources. The study demonstrates that, in general, the research participants are multilingual and that three languages in particular-Polish, English and Norwegianform an important part of their repertoires. The findings suggest that these linguistic resources and the roles they take on in the individual repertoires, however, might be experienced very differently by the participants. Furthermore, the analysis points to the existence of competing language ideologies among the researched cohort.

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“…Over time the language gained a symbolic status and came to be viewed as the foundation that kept the oppressed community together. Thus, as described by Duszak (2006)…”

Section: Figurementioning

confidence: 92%

Trilingual repertoires, multifaceted experiences: multilingualism among Poles in Norway

Obojska

2019

International Multilingual Research Journal

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“…Anna perceives that her use of Polish is judged through both her accent, and the way that she uses the language, indicating the importance given to standard Polish and the corresponding pronunciation rules (Jahr and Janicki 1995, 27;Duszak 2006). This also draws on the ideology whereby expertise in Polish is regarded a prerequisite of Polish identity (see Obojska 2017).…”

Section: Anna: 'An Outsider Polish Person'mentioning

confidence: 99%

‘They have a go at me, that I’m a good English guy. Well, I’m Polish as well’: how bilingual Polish adolescents in the UK negotiate the position of ‘linguistic expert’

Young

2021

The Language Learning Journal

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This paper explores the position of 'linguistic expert', and how being positioned as an expert affects the linguistic and ethnic identity construction of a group of Polish-English bilingual adolescents living in the UK. Findings indicate that while the participants are often positioned as experts in English and/or Polish, this may not correspond with their own feelings of linguistic competency. In the UK, the adolescents engage in language brokering, a practice which presumes an expert knowledge of each language that the participants do not always feel they possess. At school, the adolescents resist being regarded as fluent in English; when visiting Poland, they find their knowledge of Polish lacking. Closer examination of the participants' narratives suggests that the concept of 'expert' is open to negotiation, and that the adolescents both challenge and exploit notions of expertise as they negotiate their own linguistic and ethnic identities.

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“…It is also worth noting that the follower explicitly invokes the notion of the mother tongue (język ojczysty), which in Polish is heavily laden and carries patriotic connotations stemming from the times of prolonged occupations and partitions of the country (cf. Chłopicki, 2005;Duszak, 2006). Through challenging Ana and Viola's language practices, the follower constructs two opposite identities: a proud, patriotic Pole who respects the country of origin and the mother tongue and a Pole who is ashamed of the own background and of the mother tongue.…”

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“Are you so ashamed to come from Poland and to speak your mother tongue?” – metalinguistic talk, identities and language ideologies in teenagers’ interactions on ASKfm

Obojska

2018

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This article applies the concept of metasociolinguistic stance specifically to investigate and analyse how identities and competing discourses can be (re)constructed in metalinguistic talk. In particular, the article analyses how stancetaking can serve as a vessel for constructing language ideologies and identities in metalinguistic talk between a Polish teenager based in Norway and her followers on a social media platform. Inspired by online ethnography, this study combines the observation of online activities, the analysis of screendata, as well as data obtained through direct online and offline discussions with the profile owner. The study showed that the focal participant and her predominantly Polish followers took different metasociolinguistic stances towards the use of Polish and Norwegian in communication between people of Polish origin. While the homeland-based followers constructed an indexical link between ethnic origins and obligatory practice of speaking Polish, the focal participant contested these ideological assumptions and oriented towards a more flexible understanding of the relationship between language and belonging. This contribution shows how social media can serve as a rich research site where the members of diasporic communities and the members of the homeland societies come into contact and interact with each other bringing in different discourses and ideologies into the conversations.

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Why ‘New’ Newspeak?: Axiological Insights into Language Ideologies and Practices in Poland

Cited by 10 publications

References 6 publications

Trilingual repertoires, multifaceted experiences: multilingualism among Poles in Norway

Trilingual repertoires, multifaceted experiences: multilingualism among Poles in Norway

‘They have a go at me, that I’m a good English guy. Well, I’m Polish as well’: how bilingual Polish adolescents in the UK negotiate the position of ‘linguistic expert’

“Are you so ashamed to come from Poland and to speak your mother tongue?” – metalinguistic talk, identities and language ideologies in teenagers’ interactions on ASKfm

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