Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Tables
- Transcription Conventions
- Map of Central Europe
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Discourses on Language in Social Life: Theoretical and Methodological Orientations
- 3 Sociolinguistic Histories and the Footprint of German in Eastern Central Europe
- 4 Language Policy Discourses: Interventions and Intersections
- 5 Language (Auto)biographies: Narrating Multilingual Selves
- 6 Language Ideologies: Negotiating Linguistic Identities
- 7 Conclusions
- Appendix A European Institutions and Documents Concerning Language Policy
- Appendix B Preamble to the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
- Appendix C Introduction to the 2005 Commission Communication ‘A New Framework Strategy for Multilingualism’
- Appendix D Introduction to the 2008 Commission Communication ‘Multilingualism: an asset for Europe and a shared commitment’
- Appendix E German and Austrian agents and institutions in foreign cultural policy
- Appendix F Extract from ‘Auswärtige Kulturpolitik – Konzeption 2000’
- Appendix G Central focus – ‘Leitbild’ – of the Goethe-Institut
- Appendix H Austria's Auslandskulturkonzept NEU
- Appendix I Plattform Kultur Mitteleuropa – Platform Culture Central Europe
- Appendix J Extract from Austria kulturint – Tätigkeitsbericht 2002
- Appendix K Czech 2001 White Paper on Education
- Appendix L Czech 2004 Education Act
- Appendix M Extract from Czech Follow-up of Action Plan on Language Learning and Linguistic Diversity
- Appendix N Hungarian 1997 Directive Concerning the Education for National and Ethnic Minorities
- Appendix O Extract from 2007 Hungarian National Core Curriculum
- Appendix P Extract from Hungarian Follow-up of Action Plan for Language Learning and Linguistic Diversity
- References
- Index
6 - Language Ideologies: Negotiating Linguistic Identities
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Tables
- Transcription Conventions
- Map of Central Europe
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Discourses on Language in Social Life: Theoretical and Methodological Orientations
- 3 Sociolinguistic Histories and the Footprint of German in Eastern Central Europe
- 4 Language Policy Discourses: Interventions and Intersections
- 5 Language (Auto)biographies: Narrating Multilingual Selves
- 6 Language Ideologies: Negotiating Linguistic Identities
- 7 Conclusions
- Appendix A European Institutions and Documents Concerning Language Policy
- Appendix B Preamble to the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
- Appendix C Introduction to the 2005 Commission Communication ‘A New Framework Strategy for Multilingualism’
- Appendix D Introduction to the 2008 Commission Communication ‘Multilingualism: an asset for Europe and a shared commitment’
- Appendix E German and Austrian agents and institutions in foreign cultural policy
- Appendix F Extract from ‘Auswärtige Kulturpolitik – Konzeption 2000’
- Appendix G Central focus – ‘Leitbild’ – of the Goethe-Institut
- Appendix H Austria's Auslandskulturkonzept NEU
- Appendix I Plattform Kultur Mitteleuropa – Platform Culture Central Europe
- Appendix J Extract from Austria kulturint – Tätigkeitsbericht 2002
- Appendix K Czech 2001 White Paper on Education
- Appendix L Czech 2004 Education Act
- Appendix M Extract from Czech Follow-up of Action Plan on Language Learning and Linguistic Diversity
- Appendix N Hungarian 1997 Directive Concerning the Education for National and Ethnic Minorities
- Appendix O Extract from 2007 Hungarian National Core Curriculum
- Appendix P Extract from Hungarian Follow-up of Action Plan for Language Learning and Linguistic Diversity
- References
- Index
Summary
Introduction
In this chapter, we will again consider ways in which individuals navigate their passage through the changing and sometimes turbulent circumstances of their lives in the accounts they give of their personal experiences with language, but from a different perspective. While in Chapter 5 our principal concern was with the processes by which individuals as narrators construct a coherent image or interpretation of their past in the development and articulation of their life stories, we will focus here on the second function of language biographies discussed in Chapter 2 (p. 27) as a ‘privileged locus for the negotiation of identities’ (De Fina et al. 2006: 16). This will entail an analysis of the narratives not in terms of their organisation of personal experiences with language but as discourses on language and identity, an analysis through which we hope to tease out the relationships between language ideologies and individual practices that may help us to explain how and why people respond in different ways to changing linguistic regimes of representation (again, see Chapter 2: p. 21). More specifically, we shall try to explore some of the ways in which changes in social and political conditions are refracted through personal experience and emerge in individual narratives as expressions of personal (re)alignment with particular social groups in relation to particular times and places.
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- Language and Social Change in Central EuropeDiscourses on Policy, Identity and the German Language, pp. 161 - 201Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2010