scholarly journals Social and historical factors contributing to language shift among German heritage-language migrants in Australia: An overview

2019 ◽  
Vol 100 (7) ◽  
pp. 159-180
Author(s):  
Jaime Hunt ◽  
Sacha Davis
Keyword(s):  
Heritage Language ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Language Shift ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Historical Factors ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
The Face ◽  
Societal Changes ◽  
Post War ◽  
Global Language

Australia is a multicultural society in which over 300 different indigenous and migrant languages are spoken. While its cultural diversity is often celebrated, Australia’s linguistic diversity is still at risk due to the inherent monolingual mindset (cf. Clyne 2005) of its population. In this paper, we use a cross-disciplinary approach, drawing on both historical and sociolinguistic sources, to investigate some of the major causes of language shift among first- and subsequent generations of post-war German-speaking migrants in Australia. While historical and societal changes have provided greater opportunities for German to be maintained as a heritage language in Australia, these developments may have come too late or have not been effective in the face of English as the dominant language in Australia and as a global language. Our investigation indicates that Australians with German as a heritage language, like many other migrant groups, are still at a high risk of shift to English, despite recent opportunities for language maintenance provided by modern society.

Becoming the Puppeteer: Reflections on Global Language and Culture by Puppetry Students in Yogyakarta, Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susana Ayala ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Language Shift ◽  
Art Teachers ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Puppet Theater ◽  
Global Language

Puppet theater on the island of Java is an ancient art which has maintained some of its characteristics considered traditional, but has also been transforming innovations such as the wayang with hip-hop music among other popular expressions. The art of puppetry has also been institutionalized and is itself a degree program at the National Institute of Arts of Indonesia. In this paper, I show the outcomes of my research among students and shadow puppet art teachers in Java, Indonesia. There are two special characteristics in training puppeteers: The main use of Jawanese language and the development of communities of practice as ways of working in the teaching and learning process. As such, these contexts motivate students to be constantly reflecting on the Javanese language and culture. I note the process and the reflections of the participants on the Javanese language shift, and the uses of language in puppet performances which consider the reception of young Javanese. To analyze the data, I draw from fieldwork and interviews, I use the theoretical concepts of discursive genres and dialogism proposed by Bakhtin and I propose that the art of puppetry is a social field that encourages vitality and linguistic diversity on the island of Java.

scholarly journals Pendidikan Islam dan Lapangan Kerja

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
Mifedwil Jandra
Keyword(s):  
Social Communication ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Societal Changes ◽  
Human Quality ◽  
Islamic Values

Today the Islamic education is faced with the challenge of modern human life that is filled with a variety of issues are quite complex, among other things how the Islamic education able to prepare human quality, high morals in the face of societal changes so quickly, so that the products of Islamic education is to serve the needs of the hereafter but should be able to compete in a competitive and proactive in the world of modern society. In life and work, it teaches the importance of future-oriented. This grows with consequent attitude in the form of behavior that always lead to efficient ways of working (energy saving). This attitude is the basis in an effort to make the man who is always oriented to the productive values. Casual work, without a plan, lazy, wasteful of energy, time and costs is contrary to Islamic values. Islam teaches that every second of the time should be filled with three things; increase in faith, pious charity and social communication.

THE FACTORS THAT CAUSE THE LOSE OF ABILITY IN USING SUNDANESE OF ENGLISH LITERATURE STUDENTS IN UNIVERSITAS GUNADARMA

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Pradheka Aria Rangga
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Heritage Language ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Language Shift ◽  
Influential Factor ◽  
Demographic Factor ◽  
Dominant Factor ◽  
Political Factor ◽  
Data Source

In sociolinguistics, there is a phenomenon in which a community stops using their parent’s heritage language by making the use of the language in which they are located or stay as a mean of communication, it is called as a language shift. In this research, it aims to find out the factors that affected the students whose parents originated from Sunda not interested to learn their parent’s heritage language. Moreover, it aims to find out the most dominant factor that affected the students not interested to learn their parent’s heritage language. This research used the qualitative method and the data source comes from the students of English literature in Universitas Gunadarma. The result of this research shows the factors that affected the students not interested to learn their parent’s heritage language such as social, economic, and political factor, demographic factor, attitudes and values factors, education factor, migration factor, and bilingual or multilingual factors. Furthermore, education factor is assumed as the most dominant or influential factor to the students not interested to learn their parent’s heritage language, because all of the students choose agree to the education factor.

"There is no space for being German": Portraits of Willing and Reluctant Heritage Language Learners of German

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roswita Dressler
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Heritage Language ◽  
Secondary Level ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Heritage Language Learners ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Language Identity ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
German Speaking Country

Some heritage language learners (HLLs) are comfortable identifying themselves as such, while others are decidedly reluctant to adopt this term (Piño & Piño, 2000). HLLs in this paper are defined as those students having a parent or grandparent who speaks German or those who have spent a significant part of their childhood in a German-speaking country (as suggested in Beaudrie & Ducar, 2005, p. 13). This paper highlights case studies of six HLLs of German at the post-secondary level who are participants in a motivation study (Dressler, 2008). Three students are ‘willing’ HLLs. The additional three case studies are of students that I will call ‘reluctant’ HLLs of German, and this paper explores the reasons behind their reluctance and the components of self-identification, which include language identity (Block, 2007; Pierce, 1995); language expertise; affiliation and inheritance (Leung, Harris, & Rampton, 1997); cultural artifacts (Bartlett, 2007) and positioning (Block, 2007).

Politics contra the functionalisation of man – Hannah Arendt’s problematic investigation of ideology and labour

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 338-369
Author(s):  
Anna-Sophie Schönfelder
Keyword(s):  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Social Constraints ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Social Domination ◽  
Persuasive Power ◽  
The Face

Abstract Hannah Arendt suggests the pivotal problems of modern society to be man’s susceptibility to ideological patterns of thought and behaviour and the compulsion under which he performs labour. Her depiction of these phenomena can however be seen as rather one-dimensional. Since the redemptive concept of politics which she proposes as a kind of worldly realm for unconstrained human relationships, is based upon her fragile analyses of ideology and labour, this concept’s persuasive power is limited. Arendt’s striking powers of observation are more effective in areas where social domination is taken to the extreme, whereas in the face of basic social constraints she seems to be perplexed.

The invention of the shopping mall

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 283-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Styhre
Keyword(s):  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Market Liquidity ◽  
Shopping Mall ◽  
Consumer Society ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Social Reformer ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Visual Index ◽  
Post War

Purpose The economic system of competitive capitalism strives toward liquid markets wherein the cost for transacting is minimized. Liquidity is mostly addressed in association with abstract markets (e.g. the securities market), but also consumer markets are determined by liquidity concerns. The purpose of this paper is to examine the shopping mall concept, developed by the architect and social reformer Victor Gruen during the early 1950s, as a form of production of capitalist space, intended to reduce transaction costs. As an auxiliary benefit, Gruen envisioned the shopping mall as a cultural and civic center in the midst of the satellite town of suburbia, the new site of urban expansion during the post-war boom decades. Design/methodology/approach The paper reviews secondary literature on the historical development of the shopping mall as a consumer space. In addition, relevant economic and social science literature is referenced. Findings The architecture, design, ornamentation and day-to-day management of the shopping mall were premised on a consumerist way of life, ultimately serving as an all-too-visual index of the triumph of competitive capitalism in the cold war era. However, Gruen’s accomplishments were gradually compromised by the interest of money-minded developers and construction industry actors, and the shopping mall arguably never fulfilled the social and cultural function that Gruen anticipated. Regardless of such outcomes, the production of capitalist space as scripted by Gruen is still determining everyday life in consumer society, making Gruen a key figure, albeit only limitedly recognized, in the history of late modern society and in the capitalist economy. Originality/value The paper emphasizes the role of Victor Gruen in the post-Second World War period, being one of the most influential practitioners and social reformers in the era. Furthermore, the paper stresses how market liquidity is a key concern in Gruen’s project to create a communal space for the American suburban population in the era of the expanding welfare state.

Winning the Continent

Strange Bird ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele K. Troy
Keyword(s):  
German Market ◽  
European Continent ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
The Face

This chapter focuses on Albatross Press's efforts to win the European continent, including the increasingly nationalistic German market. On February 15, 1932, flying in the face of the economic turmoil raging in Europe, Albatross began with optimism. In a half-page advertisement in the Börsenblatt, the firm introduced the first six volumes of the Albatross Modern Continental Library to booksellers in the German-speaking world. Evidently, the exhausting work of the previous year had come to fruition: securing funding, testing printers, creating a look for the series, selecting the titles, and persuading authors, agents, and publishers to throw over Bernhard Tauchnitz for Albatross. This chapter examines how Albatross, led by Max Christian Wegner, Kurt Enoch, and John Holroyd-Reece, pursued a modern agenda that trespassed on the terrain of the British publishing establishment.

scholarly journals HOW TO ‘SELL’ THE PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE? PROMOTING THE PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE WITHIN TWO NORTH AMERICA COMMUNITIES

Diacrítica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Fabio Scetti
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North America ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Heritage Language ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
The Future ◽  
Global Language

This contribution presents the analysis of the position of the Portuguese language within two Portuguese communities located in North America: in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America. Enrollments are decreasing within the communitarian schools of the two communities, and some actors within these institutions are mobilizing discourses about the power of Portuguese as a global language of the future, a language of business. Thanks to our ethnographic approach, we observed discourses promoted by these institutions not anymore as a Heritage Language (HL), but ‘selling’ Portuguese as a new language for the future. Moreover, we realized how the nationalist paradigm in which one language is equal to one nation or community, and this refers to one norm, is maintained to support this new position. Due to a qualitative methodology, mixing interactional observation and semi-structured interviews, we aimed to articulate discursive analysis and analysis of language practices, mainly focusing on the perception and the identification of what is perceived as the ‘good’ Portuguese. Speakers continue to interrogate mixed or hybrid practices according to their repertoires and considering each context or situation. This may help questioning the complex ideology of ‘purity’ of a language.

scholarly journals Public Space as a Venue for Peacebuilding in Lebanon? The Role of Civic Movements in Reclaiming Public Space in Beirut and Tripoli

2021 ◽  
pp. 25-46
Author(s):  
Aseel Naamani ◽  
Ruth Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Building Relationships ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War

The issue of public spaces is increasingly at the core of civic movements and discourse of reform in Lebanon, coming to the fore most recently in the mass protests of October 2019. Yet, these most recent movements build on years of activism and contestation, seeking to reclaim rights to access and engage with public spaces in the face of encroachments, mainly by the private sector. Urban spaces, including the country’s two biggest cities – Beirut and Tripoli – have been largely privatised and the preserve of an elite few, and post-war development has been marred with criticism of corruption and exclusivity. This article explores the history of public spaces in Beirut and Tripoli and the successive civic movements, which have sought to realise rights to public space. The article argues that reclaiming public space is central to reform and re-building relationships across divides after years of conflict. First, the article describes the evolution of Lebanon’s two main urban centres. Second, it moves to discuss the role of the consociational system in the partition and regulation of public space. Then it describes the various civic movements related to public space and examines the opportunities created by the October 2019 movement. Penultimately it interrogates the limits imposed by COVID-19 and recent crises. Lastly, it explores how placemaking and public space can contribute to peacebuilding and concludes that public spaces are essential to citizen relationships and inclusive participation in public life and affairs.

scholarly journals Effects of a Perpetrator’s Physical Attractiveness, Socioeconomic Status and Gender on Behaviour Perception of the Participants of Sexual Harassment Situations

Psichologija ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 60 ◽  
pp. 58-71
Author(s):  
Gabija Petrauskaitė ◽  
Ksenija Čunichina
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Physical Attractiveness ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Younger Adults ◽  
Negative Appraisal ◽  
Societal Changes ◽  
Extralegal Factors ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact

Sexual harassment is still a widespread problem in today’s modern society. Therefore, it is important to identify extralegal factors that shape society’s attitudes towards sexual harassment cases and why, sometimes, the victim of sexual harassment is being blamed for the situation. Most of the previous studies do not explore the causal relationship between the characteristics of the accused and the attitudes towards the cases. Moreover, the results of many existing studies are contradictory. Therefore, the aim of this study is to determine the impact of sex, physical attractiveness and socioeconomic status (SES) of the perpetrator on the attitudes towards sexual harassment situations. A hundred seventy-nine respondents participated in the study. During the research, a fictional news report and situation assessment scale were used. It was found that only a perpetrator’s physical attractiveness and socioeconomic status had a statistically significant impact on the appraisal of the perpetrator and victim’s behavior in the situation. The physical attractiveness of the perpetrator resulted in a statistically significant positive appraisal of his behavior and a more negative appraisal of the victim’s behavior. SES only had a statistically significant impact on the appraisal of perpetrator’s behavior: when the perpetrator was of high SES, his behavior in a sexual harassment situation was perceived more negatively than that of low SES. Results of this research not only emphasize the importance of extralegal factors on the attitudes toward the sexual harassment victims and perpetrators among younger adults, but also indicates possible societal changes – diminished gender and opposite SES effects on the attitudes toward the aforementioned situations.

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