Language Activism

Korne, Haley De

doi:10.1515/9781501511561

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“…In her recent book on activism among academics involved in language revitalization, sociolinguist Haley De Korne discusses several strategies that scholars can deploy. She cites “creating” (resources, events), “representing” (practices, identities), and “connecting” (people, resources) (De Korne, 2021, p. 83). To this list, Occitan scholarship would add “uncovering” (or “exposing”).…”

Section: Language Loss: Diglossia As Ideologymentioning

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A materialist take on minoritization, emancipation, and language revitalization: Occitan sociolinguistics since the 1970s

Costa

2023

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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This paper introduces and discusses Occitan sociolinguistics as it evolved from the 1970s onward as a theory of language contact as conflict. It was developed in conjunction with its Catalan counterpart and as a reaction to Joshua Fishman's allocational model of diglossia, and came as a response to conditions of swift social and linguistic change in Southern France after the Second World War. This model, proposed mainly at first by Robèrt Lafont in Montpelhièr, is strongly materialist in that it focuses on the material conditions of language production and replaces the language movement among other social struggles. This paper first explores the roots of the contemporary Occitan movement and its links with the birth of Occitan sociolinguistics. It then analyzes key concepts in Occitan sociolinguistics such as diglossic ideology as essential to understand processes of minoritization, linguistic alienation, and social domination. Finally, it looks at how this approach conceptualizes language revitalization not as a linguistic issue but as a social one and suggests that Occitan sociolinguistics provides an alternative to models of language loss and revival rooted in cultural and identity politics.

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Section: Language Loss: Diglossia As Ideologymentioning

confidence: 99%

A materialist take on minoritization, emancipation, and language revitalization: Occitan sociolinguistics since the 1970s

Costa

2023

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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“…She requested, and was granted, the role of student and observer in these education settings. She interviewed teachers, students, parents, writers, cultural activists, and linguists engaged in the teaching or promotion of Isthmus Zapotec (108 interviews) (see also , 2021. In this article, she draws on observations of Isthmus Zapotec classes conducted in university settings for (young) adult learners and classes conducted in a community literacy workshop for learners of all ages, as well as interviews with the teachers (6) and a selection of participants (36) in these programs.…”

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“I Learned That My Name Is Spelled Wrong”: Lessons from Mexico and Nepal on Teaching Literacy for Indigenous Language Reclamation

Korne¹,

Weinberg²

2021

Comparative Education Review

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Globally many minority and Indigenous communities are searching for ways to reclaim languages that have been marginalized by socioeconomic and political processes. These efforts often involve novel literacy practices. In this article, we draw from ethnographic data in Mexico and Nepal to ask, what are the opportunities and constraints of teaching writing in support of Indigenous language reclamation? Writing is simultaneously an attraction and a source of marginalization or discouragement for learners in both settings. Promoting and teaching writing creates opportunities such as raising the status, visibility, and longevity of Indigenous language education initiatives. Challenges include struggles for legitimacy among teachers and learners and the emergence of new hierarchies among dialects. We suggest that language reclamation efforts can benefit from making the most of the material and social nature of writing and from avoiding hard-line purism and a focus on form, while giving greater consideration to meaning and contexts for written expression.

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“…Al igual que ocurre en otros contextos latinoamericanos en que el castellano comparte una historia conflictiva con diversas lenguas minorizadas (Cru 2015;De Korne 2021;Sichra 2016aSichra , 2016b, en el Perú han comenzado a aflorar en la última década iniciativas de revalorización del quechua desde la sociedad civil, sobre todo por parte de jóvenes que intentan difundir la lengua originaria a través de la música urbana, la producción literaria, el uso de medios de comunicación alternativos y el desarrollo de clases de quechua presenciales y virtuales (Zavala 2019; Andrade y Howard 2021). Muchas de estas iniciativas están trabajando al margen del Estado y están teniendo una gran acogida por parte de la población.…”

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Tan lejos y tan cerca: los nuevos activismos quechuas frente al Estado peruano

Zavala,

Andrade Ciudad

2023

Boletín de Filología

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In a Latin American historical context in which the State opens opportunities for the promotion of diversity while depoliticizing the identity of indigenous peoples and the struggle for their rights, some Peruvian collectives are developing novel and creative initiatives in favor of Quechua, deploying linguistic agency and activism in close connection with other citizen concerns. Some of these groups, made up mainly of young people, choose to act outside the state, rejecting state language policies outright, while others take advantage of the funding options and symbolic recognition that officialdom offers them. Based on the review of two cases that we consider representative of both positions, the Quechua for All project and the Puriyninchik Association, we propose that the relationship with the State constitutes a relevant axis for observing Latin American language activism, and we examine the challenges and possibilities faced by the collectives as they move along these paths.

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Language Activism

Cited by 16 publications

References 137 publications

A materialist take on minoritization, emancipation, and language revitalization: Occitan sociolinguistics since the 1970s

A materialist take on minoritization, emancipation, and language revitalization: Occitan sociolinguistics since the 1970s

“I Learned That My Name Is Spelled Wrong”: Lessons from Mexico and Nepal on Teaching Literacy for Indigenous Language Reclamation

Tan lejos y tan cerca: los nuevos activismos quechuas frente al Estado peruano

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