Situating media influence in sociolinguistic context

Tagliamonte, Sali A.

doi:10.1111/josl.12074

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“…The second question is where children pick up on English, if not in the family home. Here we will briefly discuss the role of (1) secondary socialization in school contexts; and (2) the contested influence of the media on language variation and change (see Tagliamonte 2014). The final section will then discuss these findings against the theoretical background of the role of child-directed speech in developmental sociolinguistics (Smith et al 2007;De Vogelaer and Katerbow 2017;Van De Mieroop et al 2016).…”

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The (near) absence of English in Flemish dinner table conversations

Zenner

Mieroop

2019

Applied Linguistics Review

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This paper studies the low frequency of English insertions in child-directed speech in eight Flemish families, which is striking considering the strong position of English in other domains in Flanders. Crossing usage-based approaches to language acquisition and language socialization research, we scrutinize our corpus of dinner table conversations that consist of over 25,000 utterances, complemented by sociolinguistic interviews with the caregivers of each family. After mining our corpus for English insertions, we present a quantitative exploration that reveals how less than 1% of the utterances per family contain English insertions. Assessing whether this result can be interpreted as parents’ attempts to socialize their children towards Dutch, and what this reveals about their language regards, we analyze selected fragments through multimodal discourse analysis. After discussing possible implications of these findings for the position of English in Flanders, we additionally discuss them against the theoretical background of developmental sociolinguistics, and against the methodological background of working with small samples and negative evidence in a usage-based approach (see e.g. negative entrenchment.

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The (near) absence of English in Flemish dinner table conversations

Zenner

Mieroop

2019

Applied Linguistics Review

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“…While never forming a central plank of pirate radio in the 1980s, traditional music and Irish language programming were established as niches and maintain a marginal presence on licensed stations today. Quantifying the precise linguistic influence of media is notoriously difficult (Tagliamonte, 2014), but we argue that the pirates opened up greater linguistic diversity in the use of English by Irish broadcasters than had previously been the case and introduced a wider range of cultural styles than were previously available to Irish listeners.…”

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Irish Pirate Radio 1978-1988: How Political Stasis Allowed Unlicensed Radio to Flourish and Innovate

Walsh¹,

Greene

2020

Journal of Radio & Audio Media

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The history of pirate radio in Ireland remains understudied by comparison with other countries with histories of unlicensed broadcasting. This is surprising given the extent and longevity of a large pirate radio scene which was at its zenith between 1978 and 1988. Drawing on our own archive of Irish pirate radio recordings, interviews with those involved and pirate paraphernalia, we contend that the cultural, social, political, economic., and technological influence of Irish pirate radio was farreaching. However, although the pirates were influential and left a lasting legacy, they ultimately lost out in the new licensed regime rolled out from 1989.

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“…Zoals uit de bekende studie van Lippi-Green (1997) naar het taalgebruik van personages uit Disneyfilms bleek, worden kinderen ook via de media aan een specifiek taalrepertoire blootgesteld, waarbij terugkerende koppelingen tussen taal en sociale betekenis kunnen worden opgetekend. Hoewel de precieze bijdrage van media aan taalverandering nog voorwerp is van intens taalkundig debat (Tagliamonte 2014), lijkt alvast duidelijk dat sociolinguïstische keuzes net als in de maatschappij zelf ook in fictie begrensd worden door 'audience design at the level of target audiences' (Androutsopoulos 2012a op basis van Bednarek 2010, Richardson 2010. Onderzoek naar 'cinematografisch taalgebruik' benadrukt verder dat taalgebruik in fictie niet zomaar kan worden bestudeerd als weinig authentieke weerspiegeling van de talige realiteit, maar op zichzelf (talige en sociale) realiteit construeert in de fictionele sociale context (Androutsopoulos 2012a: 143-144, en zie Van Hoof 2013.…”

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Sociale betekenis en taalvariatie in luisterverhalen voor Vlaamse kinderen

Jacobs¹,

Marzo²,

Zenner³

2021

Nederlandse Taalkunde

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The field of sociolinguistics recently witnessed an upsurge of studies that investigate the way and period in which children acquire the social meaning of language, and that scrutinize the role of input for that acquisition. Language variation is at the same time increasingly studied in fictional genres, which have long been ignored because of the sociolinguistic emphasis on ‘authentic’ language use. Both areas are brought together in this study, which looks into children’s exposure to language variation in Flemish child-directed media. Through a corpus analysis of the language use and the social characteristics of 260 characters from 12 audio plays for children, we address three research questions: (RQ1) how diverse is the language repertoire to which children are exposed in Flemish audio plays?; (RQ2) how can we categorize the language use of the characters in the audio plays while taking into account the diaglossic continuum of varieties in the Flemish linguistic landscape?; (RQ3) which social characteristics are indexed by the varieties in the audio plays? The results show that (i) the Flemish diaglossic language repertoire is reflected in the classification of the language use of the characters; (ii) Colloquial Belgian Dutch and the Belgian Dutch standard language serve as reference varieties in the corpus; (iii) the Belgian Dutch standard language is most typically associated with prestige, whereas West-Flemish and French have a notably more diverse social meaning potential.

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Situating media influence in sociolinguistic context

Cited by 31 publications

References 19 publications

The (near) absence of English in Flemish dinner table conversations

The (near) absence of English in Flemish dinner table conversations

Irish Pirate Radio 1978-1988: How Political Stasis Allowed Unlicensed Radio to Flourish and Innovate

Sociale betekenis en taalvariatie in luisterverhalen voor Vlaamse kinderen

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