Crossing the Line in Quebec and Catalonia

O'Donnell, Paul

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“…Indeed, the Quebecois are keenly aware of the decline in the use of French among francophones (A. Baumeister, 2003) and the rise of "mixed" marriages (O'Donnell, 2001). Should group members extrapolate this situation over subsequent generations, French Canadian culture might easily be perceived as likely to be compromised in the future (see Bourhis, 1994, andThomson, 1995, for discussions of ethnolinguistic vitality and the future of French Canadian culture).…”

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Collective angst: How threats to the future vitality of the ingroup shape intergroup emotion.

Wohl

Branscombe

2008

Transcending Self-Interest: Psychological Explorations of the Quiet Ego.

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When people perceive a threat to the self, they have a tendency to respond with negative emotions. Which specific negative emotion will predominate depends on the nature of the threat and how it is interpreted. Feelings of angst will emerge when a person experiences an intense concern that something negative will befall the self in the future (Barlow, 1988). According to social identity theory (Tajfel & Turner, 1986), people can define themselves at either the personal level or the social identity level. When an important social identity is salient, the individual comes to think, feel, and act on the basis of his or her membership in that social group-to the extent that he or she has internalized that group membership as an aspect of the self. In line with social identity theory, we argue in this chapter that angst can be experienced not only at the level of the personal self but also as a result of perceived threats to a group to which one belongs. We focus on people's emotional responses when they perceive threats to the future of their ingroup; that is, when people respond to threat with collective angst.Although the study of emotion has traditionally been examined at the level of the personal self, group researchers have begun to illustrate how some important emotions are dependent on a different aspect of the self being salient: the social self (Smith, 1993;Wohl, Branscombe, & Klar, 2006). Whereas other chapters in this volume examine the self at the level of personal identity and explore means of transcending egoistic responses to threat, we explore the social self and the emotional response of collective angst as a response to threat experienced at the group level. We begin by considering the antecedent conditions that elicit collective angst; specifically, we examine the impact of threats to group distinctiveness in the present, as well as reminders of ingroup victimization in the past, for the experience of collective angst. We then turn to the potential social consequences that can stem from the experience of collective angst. We argue that reminders of historical victimization initiate ingroup defensive responses that result in group-level egoistic tendencies. Attention

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Collective angst: How threats to the future vitality of the ingroup shape intergroup emotion.

Wohl

Branscombe

2008

Transcending Self-Interest: Psychological Explorations of the Quiet Ego.

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Catalan on the Internet and the .ct and .cat campaigns

Atkinson¹

2006

JLP

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ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, divides the World Wide Web geographically, assigning country suffixes to states to be used in web addresses for sites on their territory. This paper reports on the campaign in Catalonia to have the right to use .ct as the territorial domain name for sites in Catalonia. The bid has been countered by the central government in Madrid and the argument is ongoing. In the interim, ICANN have assigned the .cat suffix. This recognises the linguistic, cultural and ethnic group as a web entity without going as far as to give them the same web standing as a sovereign state.

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Multilingualism in Brussels: ‘I'd Rather Speak English’

O'Donnell

Toebosch

2008

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

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Language is both a divisive and a unifying force in Brussels. Historically predominantly Dutch-speaking, surrounded by the officially Dutch-speaking federal state of Flanders, located in a majority Dutch-speaking nation-state, and with the majority of its Belgian citizens Francophone, Brussels has officially been bilingual Dutch Á French since 1962. This paper reports the results of a survey undertaken to uncover the actual language usage and preferences in the Belgian capital. It shows that in a society where old divisions and sensitivities between French and Dutch speakers persist, English has emerged as the 'neutral third party'.

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Crossing the Line in Quebec and Catalonia

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Collective angst: How threats to the future vitality of the ingroup shape intergroup emotion.

Collective angst: How threats to the future vitality of the ingroup shape intergroup emotion.

Catalan on the Internet and the .ct and .cat campaigns

Multilingualism in Brussels: ‘I'd Rather Speak English’

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