FASoS Coloquium Languageculture ‘Identity politics in the public and daily domain’

‘Identity politics in the public and daily domain’ by Leonie Cornips and Lotte Thissen

Wednesday 30 January 2013 15:30-17:30

Spiegelzaal Soironbuilding room 1003

 

 

Languageculture: identity politics in the public and daily domain

 

Discussants: Ulrike Mueller (UCM) and Jos Perry

 

Our presentation aims to encourage the interdisciplinary study of ‘languageculture,’ an approach to language and culture in which ideology, linguistic and cultural forms, as well as praxis are studied in relation to one another. An integrated analysis of the selection of linguistic and cultural elements provides insight into how these choices arise from internalized norms and values, and how people position themselves towards received linguistic and cultural categories and ideologies. Our presentation focuses on Limburg and the linguistic political context of this region. In Limburg, differences between dialects and between dialect and standard Dutch (or regional varieties of it) are never socially neutral.

This first part of this talk will focus on the practices of inclusion and exclusion through expressions of popular culture that are predominantly linguistic in form and public in character such as carnival. As a public event in which local uniqueness is (re)produced, carnival and the carnivalesque in Limburg constitutes a political forcefield in which various languagecultural practices take shape.

The second case-study focuses on interaction in daily situations within the Limburgian city Roermond. This part of our presentation will go into linguistic and cultural detail of how two men communicate. In doing this, we will see how these men construct social meanings of language, place, and identity. Moreover, the conversation will show how these two men need to take a stance towards the opposition of Limburg vs. the rest of the Netherlands. This case-study will give a lively example of how ideology is constructed and put in practice between people during daily interactions and how identities are constructed through language.

 

 

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