Just Use It! Linguistic Conversion and Identities of Resistance amongst Galician New Speakers

Autor/in	O'Rourke, Bernadette
Titel	Just Use It! Linguistic Conversion and Identities of Resistance amongst Galician New Speakers
Quelle	In: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 39 (2018) 5, S.407-418 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0143-4632
DOI	10.1080/01434632.2018.1429455
Schlagwörter	Self Concept; Language Variation; Ethnography; Interviews; Language Planning; Correlation; Spanish; Spanish Speaking; Language Usage; Urban Areas; Role; Bilingual Education; Educational Policy; Official Languages; Second Language Learning; Language Minorities; Romance Languages; Language Attitudes; Political Attitudes; Foreign Countries; College Students; Spain + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Selbstkonzept; Sprachenvielfalt; Ethnografie; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Sprachwechsel; Korrelation; Spanisch; Sprachgebrauch; Urban area; Stadtregion; Rollen; Bilingual teaching; Bilingualer Unterricht; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Office language; Amtssprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Sprachminderheit; Romanische Sprache; Sprachverhalten; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Ausland; Collegestudent; Spanien
Abstract	In recent years there has been a focus in language policy research on understanding how national policies are interpreted and negotiated by social actors on the ground. This paper looks at the interplay between government and grassroots initiatives to create Galician-speaking spaces in predominantly Spanish-speaking urban settings. While official language policies in Galicia since the 1980s have increased the potential for language use through bilingual educational policies, these policies have failed to convert the large pool of potential speakers amongst a younger generation of Galicians into active language users. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews with Galician "neofalantes" (new speakers) this paper looks at instances where such policies seem to have worked and where the linguistic capacity created through the education system has been converted into active language use. The article examines how such speakers rationalise their practice of linguistic conversion not as success stories of language policy but as reactions to and dissatisfaction with what is perceived as 'top-down' governmentality through a reflexive process in which existing power structures are brought into question. The article looks specifically as the ideologies underpinning their decisions to become active speakers and the role they play as language planners in contemporary Galicia. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01