Linguistic insecurity and the linguistic ownership of English among Singaporean Chinese

Amanda Limin Foo; Ying‐Ying Tan

doi:10.1111/weng.12359

Linguistic Insecurity and Lack of Entitlement to Spanish among Third-Generation Mexican Americans in Narrative Accounts

Heritage Language Journal ◽

10.46538/hlj.13.1.2 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 29-54

Author(s):

Ryan A. Goble

Keyword(s):

Mexican Americans ◽

Imagined Communities ◽

Third Generation ◽

Theoretical Frameworks ◽

Linguistic Insecurity

The purpose of this study is to examine the narrative accounts (De Fina, 2009) of third-generation (3G) Mexican-Americans, as they aim to excuse their English monolingualism in contexts that have reinforced the ideology that they should speak native-like Spanish. Traditionally, studies that have investigated the intergenerational disappearance of Spanish by the 3G have focused on how parents and grandparents have socialized the 3G to use or not use Spanish, without much attention to the 3G themselves. The present study aims to extend this line of research by analyzing the narrated and recontexutalized interactions that the 3G claims have resulted in the attrition of Spanish in their respective families. Through the theoretical frameworks of indexicality (Ochs, 1992) and imagined communities (Anderson, 1991), the findings indicate that the participants index linguistic insecurity (Preston, 2013) when they recount using Spanish with their generational predecessors, whom they construct as having a stronger nativist orientation. Such insecurity emanates from the unattainable goal to speak native-like Spanish, which is exacerbated by familial teasing. These speakers’ negative selfperception consequently leads to their withdrawal from imagined communities of Spanish owners, contributing to the intergenerational loss of Spanish.

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A Study of Linguistic Insecurity among Turkish Teachers of English

International Journal of English Language Education ◽

10.5296/ijele.v4i2.9874 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 117 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Giti Ehtesham Daftari

Keyword(s):

Language Proficiency ◽

Target Language ◽

Fall Semester ◽

Low Level ◽

Efl Teachers ◽

Level Of Knowledge ◽

Teaching Pronunciation ◽

Academic Year ◽

Linguistic Insecurity

<p>This study was designed in order to investigate some aspects of the linguistic insecurity of Turkish EFL teachers and its possible sources. In the light of these aims, the study was conducted with 152 Turkish teachers at different language institutes during fall semester of 2015-2016 academic year. The study was conducted in a twelve week period and the data were collected through a questionnaire. Although the results revealed that Turkish EFL teachers experienced a low level of linguistic insecurity in their classrooms, it was found that teaching pronunciation, low level of target language proficiency and low level of knowledge on culture of target language are linguistic insecurity provoking factors.</p>

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Deferring to the Other

10.1093/oso/9780190855734.003.0007 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 126-148

Author(s):

Joseph Sung-Yul Park

Keyword(s):

Multinational Corporations ◽

Language Ideologies ◽

Native Speakers ◽

The Other ◽

Language And Identity ◽

Self Development ◽

Native Speakers Of English ◽

Linguistic Insecurity

This chapter discusses how the notion of linguistic insecurity can illuminate the processes by which essentialist conceptions of language and identity—in particular, the persistent colonial ideology of nativeness—contribute to the hegemonic status of English in neoliberalism. This chapter conceptualizes linguistic insecurity in terms of tensions that speakers experience between conflicting language ideologies. Focusing on the case of Korean mid-level managers working in non-Korean multinational corporations abroad, the chapter argues that the notion of linguistic insecurity allows us to explore how conflicting ideologies about English in neoliberalism—one in which English is valorized as a commodifiable resource available to anyone through projects of self-development, and one in which who counts as a legitimate speaker of English is defined in ethnonational terms—can jointly create a sense of insecurity in those who are traditionally considered non-native speakers of English, and rationalize the inequalities they are subjected to in neoliberalism.

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Sprachliche Unsicherheit bei unregelmäßigen Superlativbildungen im Spanischen

Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie (ZrP) ◽

10.1515/zrp-2019-0056 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 135 (3) ◽

pp. 643-662

Author(s):

Stefanie Goldschmitt ◽

Robert Hesselbach

Keyword(s):

Linguistic Insecurity

Abstract This paper deals with the interrelation between the concept of linguistic insecurity described by Labov (1966) and the irregular formation of Spanish superlatives based on Latin roots such as paupérrimo, celebérrimo etc. instead of the analogue formation pobrísimo or celebrísimo. After a brief overview on the frequency of these forms and their alleged regular equivalents in Spanish corpora, a closer look is taken on the speakers’ internal and external aspects of linguistic (in)security. Finally, it is shown by an acceptability test that there are forms on -érrim*, which are not exclusively restricted to the norma culta in Spanish.

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