Suchergebnisse

Peacemakers Project - Peace Dialogue Campus Network: Fostering Positive Attitudes between Migrants and Youth in Hosting Societies (2018-2020). ; Migrants never travel alone. Migrant people and migrant languages are journey companions. Migrants meet new countries, different people, new cultures, new languages. We do not all speak English. Languages in contact and intercultural communication active learning should be part of linguistic and social integration policies. ; Project consortium led by Koç University. Partners: Universidade Aberta, University of Bologna, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Gaziantep University, Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin. Peacemakers 2017-1-TR01-KA203-046676 supported by Erasmus+ Key Action 2, European Union project (2018-2020). ; N/A

Abstract
This article looks at the "new speaker" concept and the questions it raises in terms of legitimacy from the point of view of several types of social actors, namely language advocates, academics and school pupils (that is to say, "new speakers" themselves). The aim of this article is to show that this notion is not a purely descriptive one, but also carries a strong prescriptive loading – which in turns requires that minority language learners negotiate their participation in linguistic markets. Based on fieldwork in Provence, I look at how "new speakers" are often construed as speakers of "new languages", "standard" or "artificial" languages that tend to index youth, urbanity, modernity and middle class membership – all qualities which may be seen as undesirable in parts of minority language movements. I then turn to pupils of an Occitan bilingual primary school in Provence and analyse how they reframe the new speaker debate in order for themselves to fit in the broader picture of Occitan speakers. All the viewpoints I analyse tend to emphasise the weight that the traditional, monolingual speaker still holds among speakers of minority languages in southern France.

The article deals with a public debate on the institute of Jezikovno razsodišče (Linguistic Tribunal) after the Cankarjev dom incident that occurred on 22 March 1982. The first public pan-Yugoslavian debate about the nature of the Slovenian nationalism in 1980s merged the problem with the use of the Slovenian language and that of the position of immigrants who had come to the Socialist Republic of Slovenia from other Yugoslavian republics into a dangerous blend of linguistic, cultural, economic and political disagreement.