Linguistic Citizenship in the EFL Classroom: Granting the Local a Voice Through English

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muzna Awayed‐Bishara
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Citizenship

scholarly journals TALKING PARTS, TALKING BACK: FLESHING OUT LINGUISTIC CITIZENSHIP

2020 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 1636-1658
Author(s):  
Christopher Stroud ◽  
Quentin Williams ◽  
Ndimphiwe Bontiya ◽  
Janine Harry ◽  
Koki Kapa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
The Body ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Linguistic Citizenship ◽  
Insight Into

ABSTRACT One of the greatest challenges of our times is that of lack of voice for abused bodies. These are the bodies of children and men and women who have inherited the brutalities of colonialism, plantation servitude and slavery and now re-live these miseries in the belly of a rampant global neoliberal and patriarchal capitalism. They are the racialized, sexualized, genderized and godless bodies that first took form in coloniality-modernity in conjunction with the emergence of MAN, the White, rational, disembodied male as HUMAN. They retain their shape today through technologies of vulnerability, with which the manufactured lack of voice works in dynamic synergy. This is particularly the case for South Africa, with its tender histories and distraught presents, raw emotion and sore vulnerabilities of racialized and neoliberal patriarchy. In this paper, we suggest that vulnerability, beyond its potentially devastating effect on souls and livelihoods, may also be a productive site for the articulation of alternative, and habitually silenced voices. In this regard, we explore how a focus on acts of Linguistic Citizenship may orientate thinking on voice and agency to different sites of the body, as well as allow insight into the complex technologies and practices of vulnerability.

Authority and morality in advocating heteroglossia

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jürgen Jaspers
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Value Conflict ◽  
Academic Pressure ◽  
Linguistic Citizenship

Abstract In this article I address the fact that influential strands in socio- and applied linguistics advocate heteroglossic policies in education and other monolingually organised domains without extending this heteroglossia to public debate about language policy. Often this occurs by presenting linguistic diversity to relevant stakeholders as natural and real, or as the only option on account of its proven effectiveness. I argue that this strategy removes options from the debate by framing it as a scientific rather than political one, that it confronts stakeholders with academic pressure and blame, and that this may diminish scholars’ impact on policy making. Using examples from research on translanguaging, repertoires, and linguistic citizenship, I will suggest that scholars may be more effective in contexts of value conflict when their knowledge serves to expand rather than reduce the range of alternatives for stakeholders. Focusing on education I will then explore how we may reclaim language policy from an evidence-based discourse and address matters of value besides matters of fact.

1. Linguistic Citizenship

2018 ◽  
pp. 17-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Stroud
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Citizenship

Order and turbulence in a Swedish bathroom

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Henning Årman
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Agency ◽  
Linguistic Citizenship ◽  
Identity Labels

‘Where are all the queers at the school?! I want to hug you’. Thus begins a conversation scrawled on the door to a Swedish high school’s student bathroom that will spark a debate among students on whether the word ‘queer’ should be considered a slur. In dialogue with work on linguistic citizenship and graffiti as a semiotic mode, this article analyses different stages of the unfolding debate. The analytical lens of turbulence captures the interplay of ordering and disordering in the students' efforts to define ‘queer’. Youths' linguistic agency works as a struggle for meaning across different indexical orders, illustrating the difficulty of sustaining mastery of identity labels as they travel through discourse.

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