Linguistic Identities in a Basque-Speaking School: Teachers’ and Students’ Discourses of Multilingualism  

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Cots, Joseph M. ; Martin-Rubio, Xavier

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching (Full Text) vol. 2 no. 3 (2008), page 224-237.
Topik: multilingualism; identity; Basque Country; discourse; language ideology
Fulltext: Linguistic Identities in a Basque-Speaking School Teachers’ and Students’ Discourses of Multilingualism.pdf (127.69KB)

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This article represents an attempt to analyse how youngsters in the Basque Country construct their linguistic identity in interaction. The study is based on the hypothesis that youngsters in a bilingual community such as the Basque Country, with strong demands for national devolution, may experience more intensely than other citizens the tension between (1) a perception of language as a means for constructing a national identity and (2) a perception of language as a commodity which contributes to the socioeconomic promotion of the individual. The study is based on an analysis of the discourses that are drawn upon by three youngsters, during a focus-group session, and their teachers of Basque, Castilian and English in the course of a research interview. The analysis focuses on the notions of ‘social action’ and ‘psychological stance’ as discursive resources that the participants use in order to construct their personal linguistic ideology.

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