Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory / Edition 1

by Bambi B. Schieffelin, Kathryn A. Woolard, Paul Kroskrity

Overview

"Language ideologies" are cultural representations, whether explicit or implicit, of the intersection of language and human beings in a social world. Mediating between social structures and forms of talk, such ideologies are not only about language. Rather, they link language to identity, power, aesthetics, morality and epistemology. Through such linkages, language ideologies underpin not only linguistic form and use, but also significant social institutions and fundamental notions of person and community.

The essays in this new volume examine definitions and conceptions of language in a wide range of societies around the world. Beginning with an introductory survey of language ideology as a field of inquiry, the volume is organized in three parts. Part I, "Scope and Force of Dominant Conceptions of Language," focuses on the propensity of cultural models of language developed in one social domain to affect linguistic and social behavior across domains. Part II, "Language Ideology in Institutions of Power," continues the examination of the force of specific language beliefs, but narrows the scope to the central role that language ideologies play in the functioning of particular institutions of power such as the law, mass media, or nationalism. Part III, "Multiplicity and Contention among Ideologies," emphasizes the existence of variability, contradiction, and struggles among ideologies within any given society. This will be the first collection of work to appear in this rapidly growing field, which bridges linguistic and social theory. It will greatly interest linguistic anthropologists, social and cultural anthropologists, sociolinguists, historians, cultural studies, communications, and folklore scholars.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195105629
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	05/28/1998
Series:	Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics Series , #16
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Bambi B. Schieffelin is Professor of Anthropology at New York University. Kathryn A. Woolard teaches at the University of California at San Diego, where she is a Professor of Linguistics. Paul Kroskrity is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Language Ideology as a Field of Inquiry, Kathryn Woolard
2. Ideologies of Honorific Language, Judith Irvine, Brandeis University
3. "Today there is no respect": Nostalgia, "respect," and oppositional discourse in Mexicano (Nahuatl) language ideology, Jane H. Hill, U. of Arizona
4. Anger, gender language shift and the politics of Revelation in Papua New Guinean Village, Don Kulick, Sweden
5. Arizona Tewa Kiva speech as a manifestation of a dominant language ideology, Paul Kroskrity
6. The uses and utility of ideology: Some reflections, Michael Silverstein, U. of Chicago
7. Linguistic ideology and praxis in US las school classrooms, Elizabeth Mertz, Northwestern School of Law
8. Mediating unity and diversity: the production of language ideologies in Zambian broadcasting, Debra Spitulnik, Emory University
9. The role of language in European nationalist ideologies, Jan Blommaert, U. of Ghent, Netherlands, and Jef Verschueren, UC San Diego
10. Language ideologies in institutions of power: A commentary, Susan Philips, U. of Arizona
11. "You're a Liar—you're just like a woman!": Constructing dominant ideologies of language in Warao men's gossip, Charles Briggs, UC San Diego
12. Our ideologies and theirs, James Collins, SUNY Albany
13. Indonesian('s) development: On the state of a language of state, Joseph Errington, Yale University
14. The "real" Haitian creole; Ideology, metalinguistics, and orthographic choice, Bambi B. Schieffelin and Rachelle Charlier Doucet, New York University
15. Multiplicity and contention among language ideologies: A Comment, Susan Gal, U. of Chicago