Language and nationality attitudes as distinct factors that influence speaker evaluations: Explicit versus implicit attitudes in Luxembourg
We examined whether language and nationality attitudes, on both explicit and implicit levels, are distinct concepts, and whether these attitude types affect speaker evaluations. Findings confirmed the convergent and discriminant validity of language and nationality attitudes, thus confirming their conceptual distinctness. Moreover, explicit language attitudes affected explicit speaker evaluations, a finding that is discussed in the light of its implications for future research. (Source: Language and Communication)
Source: Language and Communication - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Introduction: Literacy ideologies
Publication date: July 2018Source: Language & Communication, Volume 61Author(s): Stephanie HasselbacherAbstractThis special section explores contexts in which established ways of using written language have been retooled to support indigenous or “non-mainstream” ideologies of authority, including the incorporation of novel literacies into existing local language practices. This collection of papers addresses potential conflicts between historical and/or hegemonic literacy ideologies and novel literacy practices by illustrating ways in which authoritative semiotic modalities can be utilized to legitimize a form of liter...
Source: Language and Communication - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Feeling your own (or someone else's) face: Writing signs from the expressive viewpoint
This article analyzes ideological framings of SW literacy events in which users interpret or produce SW texts reflecting another signer's embodied perspective. In so doing, many SignWriters consider whether and how the qualia that characterize the phenomenological experience of signing can be intersubjectively shared among differently positioned interactants. (Source: Language and Communication)
Source: Language and Communication - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Beyond the traditional scope of translanguaging: Comparing translanguaging practices in Belgian multilingual and monolingual classroom contexts
Publication date: July 2018Source: Language & Communication, Volume 61Author(s): Kirsten Rosiers, Inge Van Lancker, Steven DelarueAbstractThis paper investigates the interactional behavior and the socio-pedagogical valorization of translanguaging practices of teachers and pupils in a multilingual and a monolingual classroom. By including the latter, we aim at expanding the scope of translanguaging research. Based on linguistic-ethnographic fieldwork, our analyses demonstrate differences in the nature of translanguaging practices: norm-breaking in the multilingual classroom versus turning back to the norm in the monolingual...
Source: Language and Communication - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Raciolinguistic chronotopes and the education of Latinx students: Resistance and anxiety in a bilingual school
Publication date: September 2018Source: Language & Communication, Volume 62Author(s): Nelson Flores, Mark C. Lewis, Jennifer PhuongAbstractA major assumption of critical applied linguistics has been that changing the language attitudes of individual teachers will lead to the development of more linguistically responsive classrooms. Yet, despite decades of such efforts, linguistically responsive classrooms remain the exception rather than the norm. As an explanation for this lack of progress, we propose a raciolinguistic chronotope perspective that brings attention to the broader socio-historical processes that shape the in...
Source: Language and Communication - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Language change and cultural change: The grammaticalization of the get-passive in context
Publication date: September 2018Source: Language & Communication, Volume 62Author(s): Lieselotte AnderwaldAbstractReciprocal and reflexive ('middle') readings of the get-passive (as in get introduced, get married, get dressed or get shaved) have been taken as indicative of the status of the get-passive as a middle construction more generally. Historically, this interpretation is misleading, as these (marginal) get-passives refer to cultural practices that have undergone massive change between the time of the inception of the get-passive (before the 1760s) and today. What today are get-middles used to be canonical passives ...
Source: Language and Communication - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Culture and class in a glass: Scaling the semiofoodscape
Publication date: September 2018Source: Language & Communication, Volume 62Author(s): Johan Järlehed, Máiréad MoriartyAbstractThe article puts forward the semiofoodscape as a concept for the study of the interrelationship between food and language. We illustrate the theoretical and analytical value of the concept by unpacking some of the socioeconomic and cultural dynamics involved in the production, marketing and consumption of a Basque wine, Txakoli. We contend that the semiofoodscape both frames and mediates how semiotic resources can be mobilized to these ends and how they operate and for whom they work. Our scale a...
Source: Language and Communication - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
The dynamics of interactional and intentional pattern formation in children's language socialization
Publication date: September 2018Source: Language & Communication, Volume 62Author(s): Bettina PerregaardAbstractThe paradigm of Language Socialization draws upon the theoretical and analytical concepts used in linguistic anthropology, poststructuralist approaches to the study of discourse and practice, and the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl. This blending of different philosophical positions leaves Language Socialization with an incoherent concept of subjectivity. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate, first, how a coherent concept may be reached. The article argues for a phenomenological approach to the concept o...
Source: Language and Communication - July 11, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Speaking through animals: Kawaiwete shamanism and metalingual play
Publication date: Available online 8 March 2018Source: Language & CommunicationAuthor(s): Suzanne OakdaleAbstractWorking from transcripts of Kawaiwete shamanic cures and myths, this paper looks at moments of referential play, situations in which animal terms are used to refer to humans and their physical states as well as moments when referential language is replaced by non-referential communication. As the Kawaiwete are a Tupian-speaking Brazilian indigenous people, their shamanic and myth performances offer a means of considering how a lowland people's language ideologies relate to the construction of ontology. Given tha...
Source: Language and Communication - July 5, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Shifting: Amerindian perspectivism in Kaska narrative performances
This article proposes a perspectival shift in views of Kaska storytellers’ code-switching to appreciate its verbal artistry, its role indexing features of the colonial encounter, and its connections to Kaska ontology. Despite the major social and economic changes experienced by Kaskas, the basic features of their lived reality remain unchanged, and they remain open to understanding the k'éh “ways” of other dene “people”, including those of animals and other animate beings. While English speakers may devalue the language shifts of Kaska storytellers, such shifts enhance their authority as prominent men who were a...
Source: Language and Communication - July 5, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Reporting, capturing and voicing speech amongst the Araweté
Publication date: Available online 22 March 2018Source: Language & CommunicationAuthor(s): Guilherme Orlandini HeurichAbstractThis paper addresses instances in which another person's speech is made one's own. Starting with the presentation of reported speech practices in daily conversations, then moving to semi-ritual retellings, speech play and the capture of another's voice by force, it finally brings examples of voicing nonhumans in ritual discourse. Drawing on studies of reported speech, voicing and capture in Amazonia and elsewhere, it suggests a possible connection between these different modalities of using another'...
Source: Language and Communication - July 5, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
“We talk in saltwater words”: Dimensionalisation of dialectal variation in multilingual Arnhem Land
Publication date: Available online 27 March 2018Source: Language & CommunicationAuthor(s): Jill VaughanAbstractIn Arnhem Land, northern Australia, speakers of the Burarra language live and communicate within a highly multilingual and multilectal language ecology. This paper explores how regional ideologies of socio-cultural distinctiveness and unity are projected into the linguistic space at the level of the language (within Maningrida's language ecology), as well as at the level of the lect (in terms of dialects and sociolects within the Burarra language). Drawing from current ethnography, naturalistic interactional and e...
Source: Language and Communication - July 5, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Bodies that speak: Languages of differentiation and becoming in Amazonia
Publication date: Available online 30 March 2018Source: Language & CommunicationAuthor(s): Casey HighAbstractIn this article I consider the metaphysical underpinnings of a specific language ideology in Amazonian Ecuador by comparing Waorani ideas about the agency of speech in shamanism and funerary practices to their engagements in language documentation. I relate the notion of language as a force inseparable from the bodies of speakers to concepts of language as “culture” in research to document their language. By considering how Waorani consultants have come to see certain features of their language in video recordin...
Source: Language and Communication - July 5, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
On logophagy and truth: Interpretation through incorporation among Peruvian Urarina
Publication date: Available online 4 April 2018Source: Language & CommunicationAuthor(s): Harry WalkerAbstractThis paper develops an Amazonian critique of Western theories of interpretation as grounded in correspondence between a proposition and a state of affairs, and of truth as correspondence between mind and reality. For the Peruvian Urarina, language has materiality and force and implies a non-arbitrary relationship between signifier and signified, and is moreover based in a very different mode of adequation of person to world: a process grounded in absorption rather than representation. The view that words are effect...
Source: Language and Communication - July 5, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
Language in an ontological register: Embodied speech in the Northwest Amazon of Colombia and Brazil
Publication date: Available online 12 April 2018Source: Language & CommunicationAuthor(s): Janet ChernelaAbstractSpeakers of Eastern Tukanoan languages in Brazil and Colombia construe linguistic differences as indices of group identity, intrinsic to a complex ontology in which language is a consubstantial, metaphysical product—a 'substance' in the development of the person. Through speech, speakers of the same language signal a corporality based in theories of shared ancestry and mutual belonging while speakers of different languages signal difference. For Tukanoans, then, one creates one’s self in the act of speaking....
Source: Language and Communication - July 5, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research
