Language and Identity

Abstract

This special issue of Noves-sl makes a further contribution to the well stoked tradition of studies and reflections on youth and language in Catalan Sociolinguistics. This has been partially motivated by the fact that one of the priority objectives of the 2005-2006 Action Plan of the Secretariat of Linguistic Policy was the promotion of the use of Catalan among young people and included, among other measures, conducting and publishing studies on this subject. In any case, this issue does not intend to make an exhaustive study of the "state of the art" of research on language and youth. In this introduction, I would like to analyse the progress of this research work in the Catalan sociolinguistic context from a point of view that links political and theoretic questions. Following that, the contributions made by various authors are divided into two sections: in the first, three articles show new approaches to the study of the linguistic practices of youths; and in the second there is a collection of the most recent studies carried out (and which we have been able to publish here) on language and youths in Catalonia. On the basis of these articles, I would also like to discuss the theoretical and epistemological changes taking place in sociolinguistics both on a Catalan and international level, and which directly affect the approach to research on youths and language.. Summary 1. The large number of studies on youths and language 2. Theoretical displacements in research on youths and languages 3. About the contributions to this issue 4. Bibliography

The Handbook of Narrative Analysis

“…As we saw in the excerpts above, there was not only one figure at issue, but rather a contrastive display of exchanges between the oldfashioned Portuguese rural elder and the young, modern Parisian urbanite. It is conceivable that sometimes a particular figure may be relatively unmarked (Bucholtz and Hall 2004), hence less visible, and less a focus of stylized performance. For example, Inoue (2006) talks about the dialogue between the figures of bourgeois nineteenth-century Japanese male and the vulgar Japanese schoolgirl.…”

“…One or more figures in the set may be more or less implicit or unmarked (Bucholtz and Hall 2004). The discourse I present below is representative of a pattern in which the figure of the nonmodern other appears in explicit or implicit dialogue with the figure of the young, modern, urban French person.…”

“…Addressing the range of scholarship that has sought to define identity is beyond the scope of this discussion (see this volume, De Fina,chapter 18 and Van De Mieroop,chapter 21). In this chapter, I adopt the perspective often evident in sociolinguistics, sociology, and linguistic anthropology, where identities are understood to be interactionally emergent within and across communicative events Bucholtz and Hall 2004;Agha 2006) as the semiotically displayed and inferred images of personhood to which social actors may be recruited and linked.…”

Fiction, Journal De Bord Et Recherche Création

“…Or le langage pour certains d'entre eux constitue une tactique de resubjectivation (De Certeau, 1990, Bucholtz et Hall, 2004Éribon, 2012). L'utilisation du journal de bord comme instrument de recherche a peu fait l'objet d'étude alors qu'il fait partie des instruments méthodologiques en recherche création.…”

Code‐Switching, Identity, and Globalization

“…For sociocultural linguists, this perspective forced closer attention to how subjectivity might emerge within the constraints and allowances of interaction. As Bucholtz and Hall (2004a, 2004b suggest in their review of this period, identity began to be viewed as a discursive construct that is both multiple and partial, materializing within the binds of everyday discourse.…”