The politics of labelling youth vernaculars in the Netherlands and Belgium

Cornips, L.; Jaspers, JÃ1⁄4rgen; Rooij, V. de

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“…As we will demonstrate in this paper, the speech styles are debated in the media in both countries; and those language debates are interwoven with ideological viewpoints on language deficiencies, low professional potential and low prestige, which might lead to linguistic and, hence, social exclusion of the purported speakers (cf. Androutsopoulos 2010; Cornips et al 2015;Jaspers 2011;Milani 2010;Stroud 2004;Svendsen 2014). Another important aim we have set ourselves in our paper is to unravel, and denaturalise, the media-constructed links between alleged ways of speaking and the values, personal characteristics and/or (in)activities ascribed to a purported group of speakers.…”

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“…Jonsson and Milani 2009;Milani 2007Milani , 2010. Others are terms created by linguists intending to avoid stigmatising labels, such as Straattaal (for a discussion, see Cornips et al 2015), and still others are introduced by linguists in an effort to seek professional terminology, such as "multiethnolect" (Clyne 2000;Quist 2000) and "contemporary urban vernaculars" (Rampton 2015).…”

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“…Labelling is an ideological act wherein certain ways of speaking and certain groups of people are demarcated and divided into linguistic and social categories or groups in relation to certain identities and interests (Canagarajah 2013). As has been critically stated by several scholars in the last years (Cornips et al 2015;Jaspers 2008;Milani 2007;Rampton 2011), values ascribed to these speech styles are often reflected in the names and labels scholars and journalists create and diffuse. Some labels emerge and diffuse in, and are amplified through, media ("talking illegal", Jaspers 2011), often with scholarly assistance, such as the invention of the term "Rinkeby Swedish" (cf.…”

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“…e.g. Blommaert and Rampton 2011;Bourdieu 1991;Cornips et al 2015). In this paper, we will in other words, include the role of the scientists in the construction of the interpreted, including their 'struggles' for classifications and naming disputes, and "not just as the responsibilities, preference, fudge or failure of the analyst" (Rampton 2015: 42).…”

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“…Within sociolinguistics, there is an ongoing discussion as to how to label these semiotic registers, and the chosen labels are generally anchored in the various studies' theoretical and methodological approach (Cornips et al 2015;Jaspers 2008;Jonsson and Milani 2009;Milani 2007;Quist 2008;Rampton 2015;Svendsen and Quist 2010;Svendsen 2015). Several labels have been suggested, depending on the research strand: In the variety or dialectological approach, scholars have usually proposed, or used, labels such as "dialect", "sociolect" (e.g.…”

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A ‘new’ speech style is born

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2015

European Journal of Applied Linguistics

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A 'new' speech style is bornThe omnipresence of structure and agency in the life of semiotic registers in heterogeneous urban spaces Abstract: The aim of this paper is to contribute to the sociolinguistic discussion about the need for a unified sociological theory, by applying realist social theory (RST) (Carter and Sealey, this volume) to the total linguistic fact (TLF) (Silverstein 1985) or to the semiotics of 'new' speech styles in heterogeneous urban spaces. We explore, with data from Belgium (Flanders, Limburg) on Citétaal and Norway on so-called kebabnorsk, the ways structure and agency are omnipresent in the enregisterment of these semiotic registers. Through media discourse analyses, we investigate essential parts of this enregisterment process, in particular the invention and diffusion of labels and the assignment of stereotypical indexical values to these speech styles and to their alleged speakers. We demonstrate, in line with other studies, that media in interplay with scholars is a key force in the enregisterment of these speech styles. In the analysed media discourse, kebabnorsk and Citétaal are constructed as a 'mixed language', as a countable and uniform entity, the use of which inevitably results in unemployment. The alleged language users are constructed as a homogeneous group, namely 'young people with migrant backgrounds'. It is shown that social structure, including asymmetric power relations and language hegemonies, are omnipresent in the valorisation of these registers and that media discourses rely on language ideologies of unity and purity, ideologies central to a monolingual orientation. We advocate a translingual orientation towards language and communication in which communication transcends languages and involves negotiation of mobile resources. This orientation captures the ontology of language and communication and has, as such, the potential to empower the language users' individual agencies. Bente A. Svendsen: Professor of Norwegian as a second language and Scandinavian linguistics and the Deputy Director of MultiLing Centre for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan, MOUTONBrought to you by | Harvard University Authenticated Download Date | 6/29/15 10:28 AM grijke schakel vormt in het enregisterment van de deze omgangsvormen. Zo blijkt dat kebabnorsk en Citétaal worden geconstrueerd als 'mengtalen', als telbare en uniforme entiteiten, waarvan het gebruik onvermijdelijk leidt tot werkloosheid. De vermeende gebruikers van deze registers worden ook beschouwd als een specifieke en homogene groep, namelijk de 'jongeren met een migratie-achtergrond'. We tonen aan dat de sociale structuur, waaronder asymmetrische machtsverhoudingen en taalhegemonieën, fundamenteel is in de valorisatie van deze taalregisters en dat het media discours gebaseerd is op taalideologieën van eenheid en zuiverheid, die typerend zijn voor een monolinguale visie op taal. Ten slotte pleiten we voor een translinguale visie die de ontologie van taal en communicatie dekt en meer aandacht schenkt aan de agency...

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