What's the target? A folk linguistic study of young Stockholmers’ constructions of linguistic norm and variation

Bijvoet, Ellen; Fraurud, Kari

doi:10.1080/09658416.2015.1122021

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“…Because languages, and also particular varieties of languages, are seen as unique cultural vehicles of distinct peoples (Ó Murchadha & Ó hIfearnáin, ), ‘going native’ is seen as a means to fully participate in the social, cultural, political, and economic realities of native speaker populations. This is perhaps especially salient in powerful global languages where economic benefits abound for native‐like language users (Bijvoet & Fraurud, ). Even in smaller languages, though, native speech varieties can be attractive to learners as they are seen to represent a unique way of being (Ó Murchadha et al., ).…”

Section: On the Origins Of The Native Speaker Modelmentioning

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Educators’ Target Language Varieties for Language Learners: Orientation Toward ‘Native’ and ‘Nonnative’ Norms in a Minority Language Context

Murchadha

Flynn

2018

The Modern Language Journal

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Target varieties for language learning are contentious in applied linguistics and sociolinguistics. Debates centre on the nature and utility of alternative norms. Approximation to ‘native speaker’ practices is the hallmark of language education. Thus, policy and pedagogy frequently orient toward achieving native‐like production. While many language learning stakeholders are committed to this model, it is also contested. Opponents point to the ideological assumptions about ‘native’ and ‘nonnative’ speech inherent in the model, and to the unrealistic aims it presents to teachers and learners. While much research focuses on learner preferences, little work exists on teacher attitudes. This article aims to address this dearth in the target variety debate. By focusing on Irish as a minority language, the article supplements the literature on classroom targets for English and other major languages. A thematic analysis of interviews with Irish language pedagogues is presented and reveals their engagement with target varieties for the language.

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Section: On the Origins Of The Native Speaker Modelmentioning

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Educators’ Target Language Varieties for Language Learners: Orientation Toward ‘Native’ and ‘Nonnative’ Norms in a Minority Language Context

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Flynn

2018

The Modern Language Journal

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“…Such research is important because the repertoires typically ascribed to youth have already matured into ethnosocial dialects that are spoken by a diverse non-white class of working-age adults [1,14,15,16]. Few researchers have investigated this 'adult question' in Sweden.…”

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“…Like in other segregated European cities [24], 'neighborhood matters' in Stockholm and is stereotyped to certain social classes and types. In this manner, multiethnolect is like other varieties: working-class Södersnack (aka Ekensnack) is tied to Södermalm and the inner southern suburbs; 'posh' Stockholmian is tied to Danderyd and Östermalm [15,23,25] (Figure 1).…”

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“…This study intentionally disengages from the taxonomy of timing per se. Its catalyst are the many works that describe Rinkeby Swedish as 'staccato' or 'jerky' (Sw. stötig) [15,16,19,22]. Plainly stated, this study seeks to investigate whether "the regular alternation of strong and weak elements [32]" is in itself a sociolinguistic variable in late-modern Stockholm.…”

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Rhythm in Stockholm's two working-class varieties: Separate models predict intervocalic durational contrast

Young¹

2018

Speech Prosody 2018

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This study shows that two distinct social models predict speech rhythm variation -measured by the normalized pairwise variability index of vowels (nPVI-V) -for Stockholm's two working classes. The non-white working-class variety (multiethnolect) has less intervocalic durational contrast than the speech of elites (41-51 vs. 49-57) and correlates with the speaker's neighborhood diversity. Incremental increases in neighborhood diversity correlate with incremental decreases in nPVI-V. The white working-class variety has more intervocalic durational contrast than the speech of elites (53-61 vs. 49-57) and correlates to occupational status. Incremental decreases in occupational status correlate with incremental increases in nPVI-V.The data comes from 31 male Stockholmers, ages 24-49, who read aloud a passage with 285 vocalic elements. Thirteen self-identify as white 'Swedes': five working class, eight uppermiddle class ('elites'). Eighteen self-identify as non-white 'immigrants': five working class, seven lower-middle class, six upper-middle class ('elites'). Twenty-eight were born in Sweden; three arrived before age four. They hail from five neighborhood types that are representative of Stockholm's geographic ethnic distributions.The findings add Swedish multiethnolect to a growing list of contact varieties with less intervocalic durational contrast than their heritage counterparts. The findings also nudge our field's discussion of rhythm away from second-language acquisition to the social domain of race and class. At the same time, a new research question emerges whether intervocalic durational contrast is a sociolinguistic variable in its own right or a byproduct of segment-level variation.

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“…lärare och andra vuxna har Runfors (2009) introducerat begreppsparet inåtriktad svenska-utåtriktad svenska. Och i en engelskspråkig artikel föreslår Bijvoet & Fraurud (2016) termen suburban Swedish för den senare formen av språklig variation -som en kontrast till det relativt etablerade suburban slang. Vårt beslut att introducera en beteckning bör ses som ett strategiskt essentialistiskt val (jfr Bucholtz 2003).…”

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What's the target? A folk linguistic study of young Stockholmers’ constructions of linguistic norm and variation

Cited by 13 publications

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Educators’ Target Language Varieties for Language Learners: Orientation Toward ‘Native’ and ‘Nonnative’ Norms in a Minority Language Context

Educators’ Target Language Varieties for Language Learners: Orientation Toward ‘Native’ and ‘Nonnative’ Norms in a Minority Language Context

Rhythm in Stockholm's two working-class varieties: Separate models predict intervocalic durational contrast

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