Complicating raciolinguistics: Language, Chineseness, and the Sinophone

Wong, Anthony; Su, Hsi Yao; Hiramoto, Mie

doi:10.1016/j.langcom.2020.11.005

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“…Another issue is the utilization of terminology associated with such a framework while challenging its underpinning principles. In a special issue on “Chineseness,” for instance, Wong, Su, and Hiramoto (2021) call for a theoretical and geographical “expansion” and contextualization of raciolinguistic inquiry, to attend to how ideologies of nation, language, and race are implicated in the construction of “China” and “Chineseness‐Otherness,” and to explore individuals' lived experiences negotiating being and belonging in and beyond “China,” while facing the marginalization and erasure of their identities. Wong et al.’s (2021) groundbreaking work highlights the insufficiency of universalized conceptual presuppositions regarding the origin and nature of privilege‐marginalization and manifested inequity.…”

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“…Yet Wong et al. (2021) are employing concepts historically underpinned by the presuppositions they are questioning. The same is true, I would also argue, of the continued use of the terminology such as “native speakerism” by scholars attempting to expand the scope of criticality beyond essentialized and idealized nativeness in English.…”

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“…Wong et al's (2021) groundbreaking work highlights the insufficiency of universalized conceptual presuppositions regarding the origin and nature of privilege-marginalization and manifested inequity. Yet Wong et al (2021) are employing concepts historically underpinned by the presuppositions they are questioning. The same is true, I would also argue, of the continued use of the terminology such as "native speakerism" by scholars attempting to expand the scope of criticality beyond essentialized and idealized nativeness in English.…”

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Narratives and Negotiations of Identity in Japan and Criticality in (English) Language Education: (Dis)Connections and Implications

Rudolph

2022

TESOL Quarterly

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Inspired by the call to question (critical) assumptions underpinning frameworks for "seeing" (Lather, 1993) and ground criticality in alternative forms of knowing (Pennycook, 2018), this paper examines critical frameworks for approaching identity, experience, and (in)equity in "English" language teaching (ELT), with a focus on critical attention to Japan. Transdisciplinary scholarship, social movements, and other voices have detailed how the narrative of "homogeneous Japan" has given shape to notions of Selfhood-Otherness, resulting in the erasing of Japan's history as a site of movement, change, diversity and hybridity, and marginalization of many therein. The author notes that the scope of dominant, critical approaches to identity, experience, and (in)equity in Japan and globalized ELT -problematizing essentialized and idealized "nativeness" in English-does not afford conceptual space for attention to how the negotiation of being, belonging and becoming in ELT is situated in broader negotiations of identity and community membership. The author contends that this issue is linked to tensions within criticality pertaining to the imposition of essentializing frameworks for seeing upon individuals and communities around the globe. The author then discusses potential broader implications for theorization, inquiry, and practice in ELT in and beyond Japan.

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Narratives and Negotiations of Identity in Japan and Criticality in (English) Language Education: (Dis)Connections and Implications

Rudolph

2022

TESOL Quarterly

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“…While this study focuses on politeness, metapragmatics, and language ideologies, it also contributes to recent sociolinguistic discussions about Chinese‐ness (see Wong, Su, and Hiramoto (2021) for an overview). As Taiwan–China relations and politeness practices in the two places continue to evolve, future studies may explore whether such discourses continue or take a different shape, in other words, whether new narratives of rhematization emerge.…”

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Politeness as signs of difference: Semiotic differentiation and identity among Taiwanese in China

2022

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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This study examines a prevalent discourse on Taiwanese politeness as part and parcel of identity and ideological work among Taiwanese residing in China. Using as data spontaneous discussions about politeness in interviews and online forum posts that evaluate politeness, this study explores how politeness is taken up as a sign to index Taiwan-China differences and how identity is simultaneously constructed throughout this ideological work, focusing on the succession of semiotic differentiations within or across talks and texts. Throughout this process, various qualitative contrasts are made and grouped by the soft/hard schema, and differentiation between Taiwan and China is constructed. The study also considers relevant historical and social conditions and explores how the complex Taiwan-China relations may give rise to the prevalence of such a discourse.

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“…This dominant discourse of sameness is not merely an etnik or ethnolinguistic sameness, nor is it just a racial or raciolinguistic one (see Alim et al, 2016; Babcock and Ke‐Schutte, 2023; Dick and Wirtz, 2011; Rosa and Flores, 2017; Wong et al, 2021). Lest we forget, the raciolinguistic categories proffered by the peninsula are out of sync with Sabah's institutional and “everyday‐defined” (Shamsul, 2001, 365) realities.…”

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Specters of excess: Passing and policing in the Malay‐speaking archipelago

Carruthers

2023

J Linguistic Anthropol

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Positioned at the island interface of Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines, the east Malaysian state of Sabah bears witness to some of the largest clandestine cross‐border flows across the globe. This article examines what a Royal Commission of Inquiry on Illegal Immigrants in Sabah has called “an insidious problem which has turned out to be an all‐consuming nightmare.” It highlights the situated (meta)semiotic work involved in determining and enforcing the state's seemingly indeterminate and unenforceable borders between citizens and suspected non‐citizens, while also showing how inquiries into migrant illegality are ultimately inquiries into “excess.” It demonstrates how experiences of and orientations to excess take expressive shape in migrants and Malaysians' fashions of speaking and forms of life. It concludes by considering how these transnational dynamics across a sprawling archipelagic region lend a provincializing angle of vision on American(ist) anthropology's own hemispheric parochialism.

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Complicating raciolinguistics: Language, Chineseness, and the Sinophone

Cited by 13 publications

References 27 publications

Narratives and Negotiations of Identity in Japan and Criticality in (English) Language Education: (Dis)Connections and Implications

Narratives and Negotiations of Identity in Japan and Criticality in (English) Language Education: (Dis)Connections and Implications

Politeness as signs of difference: Semiotic differentiation and identity among Taiwanese in China

Specters of excess: Passing and policing in the Malay‐speaking archipelago

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