2016
DOI: 10.1075/aila.29.05van
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The reflexive imperative among high-achieving adolescents

Abstract: The socio-cultural conditions of late modernity induce a "reflexive imperative" amongst young people, which also results in metapragmatic and metalinguistic behaviour, as has been demonstrated by linguistic ethnographers (LE). However, recent LE studies on reflexivity in Western European settings have mainly focused on how groups of socially low-status, geographically mobile and multilingual youth are involved in creative linguistic processes in which the disapproval of their linguistic hybridity is denounced.… Show more

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“…Ethnographic, interactional and usagebased approaches do not report ample use of Standard Dutch but a strong metalinguistic awareness of its importance. Thus, teachers are regularly observed stating that Standard Dutch is important (at least as an abstract goal), praising colleagues who speak it, frowning upon those who speak dialect, and correcting pupils who speak dialect (Delarue, 2016;Jaspers, 2005Jaspers, , 2015Van Lancker, 2016). Pupils in their turn often underline the value of Standard Dutch (Van Lancker, 2016), routinely style shift between a relatively more standard and a relatively more dialectal style (Jaspers, 2011), while their playful, exaggerated language use outside of teachers' earshot displays a sensitivity to higher vs. lower speech styles (Jaspers, 2005, Van Lancker, 2016.…”
Section: Flandersmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Ethnographic, interactional and usagebased approaches do not report ample use of Standard Dutch but a strong metalinguistic awareness of its importance. Thus, teachers are regularly observed stating that Standard Dutch is important (at least as an abstract goal), praising colleagues who speak it, frowning upon those who speak dialect, and correcting pupils who speak dialect (Delarue, 2016;Jaspers, 2005Jaspers, , 2015Van Lancker, 2016). Pupils in their turn often underline the value of Standard Dutch (Van Lancker, 2016), routinely style shift between a relatively more standard and a relatively more dialectal style (Jaspers, 2011), while their playful, exaggerated language use outside of teachers' earshot displays a sensitivity to higher vs. lower speech styles (Jaspers, 2005, Van Lancker, 2016.…”
Section: Flandersmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Thus, teachers are regularly observed stating that Standard Dutch is important (at least as an abstract goal), praising colleagues who speak it, frowning upon those who speak dialect, and correcting pupils who speak dialect (Delarue, 2016;Jaspers, 2005Jaspers, , 2015Van Lancker, 2016). Pupils in their turn often underline the value of Standard Dutch (Van Lancker, 2016), routinely style shift between a relatively more standard and a relatively more dialectal style (Jaspers, 2011), while their playful, exaggerated language use outside of teachers' earshot displays a sensitivity to higher vs. lower speech styles (Jaspers, 2005, Van Lancker, 2016. Outside education, actors who speak nonstandard in fiction state that they find Standard Dutch highly important (Van Hoof, 2015), while linguistic variation in fiction series responds to and reproduces a framework of linguistic standardisation (Van Hoof, 2015).…”
Section: Flandersmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Naturally there are social changes that it is worthwhile attending to. The authors in this issue for example address specific population changes in Western-Europe (Lehtonen 2016;Patiño-Santos 2016), the neo-liberalisation of education (Pérez-Milans & Soto 2016; Lu 2016; De Costa et al 2016), the spread and impact of social media (Pérez-Milans & Soto 2016), or nation-states' responses to the increasing value of multilingualism and transnational mobility (Lu 2016;Van Lancker 2016). In addition to this, Archer as well as the authors in this issue are duly sensitive to an intense (self-)reflexivity that is encouraged by communication technologies and the omnipresence of (mass) media, valued as a particular communicative and commodifiable skill, and perhaps generally treated as a sign of intelligence and emotional health (cf.…”
Section: The Reflexive Imperativementioning
confidence: 99%
“…This also holds for the notion of separate languages (cf. Jaspers & Madsen 2016): in spite of sociolinguists' ample attempts to highlight its ideological nature, various papers in this issue illustrate that the idea of separate, pure, standard language continues to play a vital role, either as something to invest in and climb the social ladder with, or as a tool with which to distinguish oneself from others (Lehtonen 2016;Pérez-Milans 2016;Van Lancker 2016).…”
Section: The Reflexive Imperativementioning
confidence: 99%