The old man and the letter: repertoires of literacy and languaging in a modern multiethnic Gambian village

Juffermans, Kasper

doi:10.1080/03057925.2011.547286

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“…Or fieldnotes, interview data and photographs can form the central dataset, rather than recordings of interaction. These data can still be analysed to address sociolinguistic questions about language and literacy practices on the basis of the literacy events observed and discussed (Papen, 2005;Juffermans, 2011;Blommaert, Collins, & Slembrouck, 2005 ; see Tusting 2013 for a more extended discussion). That is to say, literacy studies which does not draw on interactional sociolinguistics in analysing recorded interaction is still linguistic analysis from a different perspective, in exploring sociolinguistic questions around literacies and language use.…”

Section: Methods In Literacy Studiesmentioning

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Workplace Literacies and Audit Society

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2015

Linguistic Ethnography

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Section: Methods In Literacy Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Workplace Literacies and Audit Society

Tusting¹

2015

Linguistic Ethnography

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“…Language ideological change has played a role in making it possible to buy and sell t‐shirts with Irish English slogans, leading to the change in indexical ordering highlighted above. Translanguaging a reconceptualisation of language to allow for recognition of use of the ‘entire linguistic and semiotic repertoire’ (García & Li Wei, ) as a discursive norm rather than as an exception or evidence of incorrectness (Juffermans, regarding the human turn in applied linguistics). This increased recognition and valuing of ‘truncated repertoires’ (Jacquemet, ) has led to the realisation of their strategic functions and value in a world of uncertainty and new mobilities.…”

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Irish English in intra‐ and intercultural advertising

Kelly‐Holmes

2019

World Englishes

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Product descriptions are a type of banal, backstage advertising, but they are also a means of giving consumers additional information about commodities, which in the current consumer culture may be as valuable for identity work and value creation as the commodities themselves. Intercultural advertising may be facilitated or hampered by the discourses and strategies adopted in order to explain the products to consumers outside of the cultural context. Where the product itself is commodified language, the description takes place through language and is also about language. The analysis of product descriptions for t‐shirts which feature a type of Irish English, described as ‘culchie style’ reveals different metapragmatic strategies (standardised translation, metapragmatic discussion, synthetic interaction, metacultural narratives and global juxtaposition) along a continuum from explicit to implicit. It is argued that the former facilitate intercultural marketing and wider circulation more easily than the latter.

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“…The notion of repertoire also lays the foundation to recent approaches to multilingualism. Mainstream definitions of multilingualism tend to define it based on competence in distinct and separate linguistic entities (Makoni & Pennycook 2007) or as ‘multiple monolingualisms’ (Juffermans 2011:166). In contrast, these recent approaches consider language boundaries as porous and focus on the fluidity and mixing of languages (e.g.…”

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The creation of monolanguaging space in akrámáJavanese language performance

Tamtomo

2018

Lang. Soc.

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Recent approaches to multilingualism, such as translanguaging, emphasize the porous, fluid, and hybrid nature of language use. This article intends to show, through an example of a local language debating competition in Central Java, that culturally emblematic performances tend to create monolanguaging spaces, due to their monolingual focusing on certain language varieties that are iconic to local ethnolinguistic identity. Monolanguaging spaces are language ideological spaces in which speakers project an idealized performance of their ethnolinguistic identity. Ethnographic observation shows that the performance of monolanguaging spaces involves the erasure of speakers’ multilingual repertoires and translanguaging practices, in accordance to the language ideology surrounding the hegemonic prestigious language variety and in accordance to the local norms of status or power-based social interaction. Attending to monolanguaging spaces reveal it as a performance accomplished through discursive work and power relations, involving the misrecognition of its connection and dissonance to multilingual repertoires and practices. (Language ideology, erasure, translanguaging, monolanguaging space, performance, ethnolinguistic identity, Javanese)*

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The old man and the letter: repertoires of literacy and languaging in a modern multiethnic Gambian village

Cited by 19 publications

References 28 publications

Workplace Literacies and Audit Society

Workplace Literacies and Audit Society

Irish English in intra‐ and intercultural advertising

The creation of monolanguaging space in akrámáJavanese language performance

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