Editorial Board
Publication date: January 2019Source: Language & Communication, Volume 64Author(s): (Source: Language and Communication)
Source: Language and Communication - December 27, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Lost in dictation. A cognitive approach to oral poetry: Frames, scripts and ‘unnecessary’ words in the Jebli ayyu
Publication date: January 2019Source: Language & Communication, Volume 64Author(s): Sarali GintsburgAbstractRecent interest in oral poetic traditions has centred on the possibility of applying cognitive linguistic categories in order to shed light on the nature of poetic improvisation across a range of cultures and historical periods (Boas, 2016). Frames, or topics or scenes, can be seen to be associated with particular scripts, consisting at least partly of formulaic language, which facilitates the process of poetic creation in real time. This paper focuses on the ayyu, a short improvised oral poetic genre common among th...
Source: Language and Communication - December 6, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Differential responses to constraints on naming agency among indigenous peoples and immigrants in Canada
This article illuminates the social structures and relations that shape agency for members of two marginalized groups in Canada and examines how individuals respond differently to constraints on their power to name themselves and their children. Constraints on spelling, structure and choice of name are framed according to the particular positions of indigenous peoples and immigrants in relation to European settler society as either ‘original inhabitants’ or ‘recent arrivals’. These historically unequal power relations are manifest in intertwined ideologies of language, identity and nation, evident in ethnographic i...
Source: Language and Communication - December 5, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Standardization(s) and regimentation: Polynomic orthodoxies and potentials
Publication date: Available online 29 November 2018Source: Language & CommunicationAuthor(s): Alexandra JaffeAbstractThis paper asks how standardization is related to different regimes of language by looking at standardization in a minority language context, Corsica. This regime, which is based on polynomie, a plural ideology of language, was constructed in opposition to the ideological monolingual bulwark of the French State. Through an analysis of signage, institutionally produced websites and other texts, and sports teams banners, I look at how this language ‘from somewhere’ is framed as a) a source of personal spea...
Source: Language and Communication - November 30, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Problematizing information-seeking Wh-questions
Publication date: January 2019Source: Language & Communication, Volume 64Author(s): Hansun Zhang WaringAbstractImportant conversation analytic work has made evident how responses to questions may be designed to resist the terms, agendas, and constraints of those questions (e.g., Heritage, 1998; Lee, 2013; Stivers & Hayashi, 2010). Based on audio-recordings of 17 publicly-available information webinars delivered by a U. S. philanthropic foundation to prospective applicants, the paper describes three methods leveraged by the institutional representatives that treat wh-questions that seek information during Q&A as somewhat ...
Source: Language and Communication - November 30, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
‘Invisible minorities’ and ‘hidden diversity’ in Saint-Petersburg's linguistic landscape
Publication date: Available online 23 November 2018Source: Language & CommunicationAuthor(s): Vlada Baranova, Kapitolina FedorovaAbstractThe article deals with representation of labour migrants’ languages in St. Petersburg’s linguistic landscape. The data analyzed in the article were gathered through fieldwork (in 2016–2017) in different districts of the city. The communication between the majority and ethnic minorities is conducted only in Russian, both in official and in informal exchanges, such as between commercial agencies and non-Russian speakers. Even in places with no official regulation, non-Russian language...
Source: Language and Communication - November 23, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Beyond the speech community: On belonging to a multilingual, diasporic, and digital social network
Publication date: Available online 20 November 2018Source: Language & CommunicationAuthor(s): Marco JacquemetAbstractThe experience of linguistic globalization, and the sociolinguistic disorder it entails, requires a serious retooling of most basic units of sociolinguistic analysis—foremost among them the speech community. The randomness and indeterminacy of contemporary flows of people, knowledge, texts, and commodities across social and geographical space is affecting the linguistic ideological boundaries of inclusion and exclusion. In particular, we can no longer assume that shared knowledge, especially indexical know...
Source: Language and Communication - November 21, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Regimes of hearing: Norwegian qualia of quiet and noise as heard through a migrant classroom
Publication date: Available online 13 November 2018Source: Language & CommunicationAuthor(s): Janet E. ConnorAbstractThrough an analysis of the way the qualia of noise and quiet are invoked and either given value or stigmatized in a school in Oslo, Norway, this paper traces the ways that people's bodies, their voices, and their material environments are constructed as being either similar or opposed to the ‘us’ of middle-class, majority Norwegians. I build on Inoue (2003)'s argument that modes of hearing are the effect of a particular regime of social power. This attention to qualia allows us to develop clearer insight...
Source: Language and Communication - November 14, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Regimenting ideologies
Publication date: Available online 13 November 2018Source: Language & CommunicationAuthor(s): Judith T. IrvineAbstractThis discussion of the articles in this special issue reflects on the concept of regimentation and the ideological work that reproduces or challenges regimentations and their objects. The discussion highlights the semiotic processes of typification, anchoring, comparison, and scale-making, which are important to how ideological regimentation works. These processes remind us that ideologies are always partial, relying on a person's position within their social world, and thus regimentation cannot be total. (...
Source: Language and Communication - November 14, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
The enregisterment of “Barnsley” dialect: Vowel fronting and being ‘broad’ in Yorkshire dialects
Publication date: January 2019Source: Language & Communication, Volume 64Author(s): Paul CooperAbstractIn this paper I investigate Yorkshire speakers' perceptions of Barnsley dialect. Interviews with speakers from different parts of Yorkshire revealed that the most frequently defined variety of “Yorkshire” dialect was “Barnsley”. When demonstrating how this variety differed from other Yorkshire varieties, informants produce a fronted vowel in the first syllable of ‘Barnsley’. I illustrate that this pronunciation has indexical links (Johnstone, Andrus, and Danielson 2006) to social values such as 'broad' and 'tr...
Source: Language and Communication - November 14, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Language regimes and corporeal practices of ‘making known’: Speech action, collective assembly, and the politics of recognition in India
Publication date: Available online 10 November 2018Source: Language & CommunicationAuthor(s): Lisa MitchellAbstractThe language regime that imposed an alien standard on the more economically and socially disadvantaged communities and regions of India where Telugu is spoken would likely not have had as large an impact if it had not occurred along with another, even more significant shift in communicative regimes that has been much less documented. This paper argues that over the course of the long nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, individual speech action, the voice of the autonomous individual, and new forms of ora...
Source: Language and Communication - November 12, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Authenticity, belonging, and charter myths of Cantonese
Publication date: Available online 8 November 2018Source: Language & CommunicationAuthor(s): Andrew D. WongAbstractThrough an analysis of arguments for protecting Cantonese against the encroachment of Putonghua in post-1997 Hong Kong, this article explores tensions in the ideological complex of authenticity and highlights the importance of investigating how spatial and temporal relationships work together to shape understandings of what counts as ‘real’, ‘natural’, and ‘original’. To endow Cantonese with authority, language advocates in Hong Kong draw on contrasting ideologies of authenticity and construct two ...
Source: Language and Communication - November 10, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Identity work through language choice in the Siwa Oasis: The exploitation and iconization of Siwi
This article concerns identity work—both the semiotic processes through which it is accomplished and the motivation behind it. Specifically, this article focuses on ethnolinguistic identity: how ethnolinguistic grouping is sustained by linguistic ideologies and how rigid categorization is toned down in everyday practice. Using an empirical study of the relations of sameness and distinction established with the Siwan group by non-members through their use—or non-use—of the Siwi language, this article will attempt to show that, based on Siwi's acquired status as an icon of group identity, the language is used as a reso...
Source: Language and Communication - November 10, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Regimenting the Gaeltacht: Authenticity, anonymity, and expectation in contemporary Ireland
Publication date: Available online 8 November 2018Source: Language & CommunicationAuthor(s): Bernadette O'Rourke, Sara C. BrennanAbstractDrawing on the framework of authenticity and anonymity, this article explores the Irish State's mobilisation of these opposing yet interrelated language ideologies in efforts to regiment the use of Irish both within the traditionally Irish-speaking Gaeltacht areas and nationwide. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in western Ireland, we examine how non-traditional Irish speakers' understanding of the Gaeltacht and its native speakers as a resource for immersion in the authentic language shap...
Source: Language and Communication - November 10, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Regimes of language, whiteness and social class: The negotiation of sociolinguistic privileges by British migrants in rural France
Publication date: Available online 2 November 2018Source: Language & CommunicationAuthor(s): Aude EtrillardAbstractThis ethnographic study of British migration in rural Brittany (France) reveals that the British benefit from positive attitudes towards their language, opening opportunities for them to access resources in English – a rare exception to the local monolingual ideology. The paper argues that the English language owes its specific place not only to its supranational status, but also to the consubstantial articulation of whiteness and class categorizations by migrants and the local population. Here, white privil...
Source: Language and Communication - November 3, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
