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Ethnolinguistic cornering| old_uid | 19974 |
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| title | Ethnolinguistic cornering |
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| start_date | 2022/02/11 |
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| schedule | 14h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | In this talk I introduce the notion of ethnolinguistic cornering and argue for its relevance in contemporary sociolinguistics. The concept is based on the ethnolinguistic assumption (Blommaert et al. 2012) denoting the alignment of languages and ethnic identities and the idea of the modern subject as mono-cultural and monolingual. The notion of ethnolinguistic cornering is used to describe and understand interactional sequences in which speakers explicitly (re)produce ethnolinguistic assumptions, which are treated as negatively charged by one or more of the interlocutors. An example is the question ”it’s difficult to be bilingual, right?" where “to be bilingual” is constructed in a binary opposition to being monolingual which is considered to be the normal and preferable. Empirically, I focus on instances and discussions of ethnolinguistic cornering, which unfolds among pupils in a linguistically and culturally heterogeneous school in Copenhagen. For instance when minoritized pupils experience ethnolinguistic cornering from teachers and object to being constructed as disadvantaged or when such experiences of being “cornered” influence the pupils' language ideological reflections. I discuss how the notion of ethnolinguistic cornering relates to current sociolinguistic theory and argue that the notion invites to study nuances in identity work in the light of changing ideological language systems over time. |
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| responsibles | Léglise, Muni Toke |
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