Language conflict research: a state of the art

Darquennes, Jeroen

doi:10.1515/ijsl-2015-0012

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“…These (and other) conflicts have received quite some attention in literature exploring the links between language, nationalism and ethnic identity. By contrast, macro-level research on language conflict in societal settings where historically grown ethno linguistic tensions played little or no role did not really gain momentum (Darquennes, 2015).…”

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confidence: 98%

“…In the second area of focus of research on language conflict, the attention shifts from a focus on conflict at the intra-linguistic level to the study of conflicts related to language use in interaction. At the centre of attention here is language conflict both in situations of interpersonal language contact in which persons use different languages belonging to different diasystems as well as in situations of interpersonal language contact in which persons use varieties belonging to the same diasystem (Darquennes, 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Local language and cultural conflict in Flores Island Society. A Critical Linguistics Study on Cross Cultural Communication in the Middle of Cultural Conflict in Flores Island Society

Gobang

Noang

Salesman

2021

TSSJ

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Flores Island is one of the diverse place despite its small size as the part of Indonesian East Archipelago and Lesser Sunda Island. We all know that regional language or local language is an intellectual and cultural property. Local language lives and develops in an area or community. There are many regional languages accustomed to be used as a means of communication. The use of local language with its different meanings in a region or community that is no longer homogeneous can be a trigger to cultural conflict. The causes of conflict among residents or cultural believers are assimilation and mixing of heterogeneous local language-speaking communities. This study aims at revealing the existence of cultural conflicts as a result of the meaning differences of local languagesused by the people on Flores Island. This study uses a critical linguistics approach with a cross-cultural communication paradigm.

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Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Local language and cultural conflict in Flores Island Society. A Critical Linguistics Study on Cross Cultural Communication in the Middle of Cultural Conflict in Flores Island Society

Gobang

Noang

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2021

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“…In the early 1980s the theme of “linguistic conflict” began to attract a wider interest amongst other European sociolinguists (Nelde, 1980; Oksaar, 1980, 1984). However, this strand tended to refer back to Haugen (1966) and ignore both Aracil and Ninyoles, although Nelde (1987) occasionally quoted Kremnitz, Gardy, or Lafont (see also Darquennes, 2015). This was also the case later in Wright (1995, 1996), and even in the works of Charlotte Hoffman (Hoffmann, 1996b, 2000) on Catalonia, including an article with the title “linguistic normalization in Catalonia” (1988), where there are plenty of local (Catalan) references; but where the term “normalization” is treated as “the term for language recovery used in the Spanish contexts” (1996a: 95), and “first coined by Catalan sociolinguists and later officially adopted by the Generalitat (or Catalan Regional Government)” (1996a: 99; also in Wright, 2004).…”

Section: The Circulations Of the Conflict Perspectivementioning

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Valencian sociolinguistics: Aracil, Ninyoles and the minority question

Pujolar

2021

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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This text provides a review of the earlier and more influential works of Valencian sociolinguists Lluís Vicent Aracil and Rafael Lluís Ninyoles, which had a significant impact in the field from the 1960s to the 1980s, particularly in a number of European minoritized language communities and Latin America. I provide a summary account of their main theoretical innovations, embodied in concepts such as “language conflict,” “linguistic normalization,” “linguistic ideologies,” and “self‐hate”, and I follow up how these concepts were taken up by a number of social movements of linguistic revitalization. To do so, I begin with an account of the social and political conditions that the two authors confronted in their youth, namely the diglossia between Catalan and Spanish in their native Valencian Country, which at the time was under the rule of the dictator Francisco Franco in Spain. After the historical and theoretical appraisal, I follow up the trail of their ideas amongst sociolinguists and language activists in Occitania, Germany, Switzerland, Wales, Mexico, and the Andes, and I assess their impact in the ways in which linguistic minoritization has been constructed from an international perspective.

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“…Ideology has obviously been taken into consideration in situations of linguistic conflict, since the use of one language or another in these situations becomes a relevant social behaviour (Darquennes, 2015). Therefore, the role of ideologies must necessarily be considered: they can explain different behaviours in a situation with a lack of consensus, in this case, about the integrative and instrumental value of the language.…”

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Primary and secondary factors in language maintenance in a medium-sized community language: Catalan in Spain

Casesnoves

Mas

Tudela

2018

International Journal of Bilingualism

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Aims and objectives: The main aim of this study is to find out which social and ideological factors determine the maintenance of Catalan language in public contexts, and particularly the relative weight each factor contributes to the choice. The question is which of the socio-demographic and ideological factors determines to a greater extent the use of Catalan. Methodology: Participants completed a survey, which consisted of a sociolinguistic questionnaire and an attitudinal test based on the matched-guise technique. Sociolinguistic inferences concerning the relationship between different factors and language use were made using statistical methods. Data: Six hundred university students from the cities of Valencia, Palma and Barcelona answered the same survey. University students are a very interesting research group, since they are going to become part of the most influential social groups. Findings: Results from the analysis support the importance of social networks in understanding language maintenance, apart from making some differences between the territories clearer: this relative importance of social networks is very high in Valencia and Palma, but not in Barcelona. Originality: This study shows the first comparison between the influence of different kinds of factors in the use of the Catalan language, as well as the comparison between the behaviour of the three major Catalan-speaking cities. Furthermore, the focus on the factors related to university students’ language use is not a much-visited field. Significance and implications: The use of Catalan seems to be naturalized in Barcelona, whereas in Palma and Valencia the use of this language is more ideologized – and minor. The coincidence in the same territory, Catalonia, of the major language use in all situations and the more incisive and inclusive language policy should point out the direction that campaigns to promote Catalan in the other two regions should take.

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Language conflict research: a state of the art

Cited by 17 publications

References 38 publications

Local language and cultural conflict in Flores Island Society. A Critical Linguistics Study on Cross Cultural Communication in the Middle of Cultural Conflict in Flores Island Society

Local language and cultural conflict in Flores Island Society. A Critical Linguistics Study on Cross Cultural Communication in the Middle of Cultural Conflict in Flores Island Society

Valencian sociolinguistics: Aracil, Ninyoles and the minority question

Primary and secondary factors in language maintenance in a medium-sized community language: Catalan in Spain

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