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Mitsuhiro Tada - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Language, ethnicity, and the nation-state: on Max Weber’s conception of “imagined Linguistic Community”
Theory and Society, 2018Co-Authors: Mitsuhiro TadaAbstract:Methodological nationalism in sociological theory is unfit for the current globalized era, and should be discarded. In light of this contention, the present article discusses Max Weber’s view of language as a way to relativize the frame of the national society. While a “Linguistic turn” in sociology since the 1960s has assumed that the sharing of language—Linguistic Community—stands as an intersubjective foundation for understanding of meaning, Weber saw Linguistic Community as constructed. From Weber’s rationalist, subjectivist, individualist viewpoint, Linguistic Community was a result of social actions, not a prior entity as assumed by German metaphysical organicism (and historicist holism). Indeed, Central Europe in Weber’s era was a battlefield of Linguistic nationalism(s); in contrast to the national societies of the Cold War period, national borders were unstable and ultimately the multiethnic empires of the region were dismantled after World War I into ethnoLinguistic nation-states. Experience of this contemporary reality brought Weber to the core of the relationship between language and politics: A language Community is an imaginary one demarcated not by language itself but by conscious opposition against outsiders, with monolingual contexts within borders created artificially by homogenizing policies like Linguistic standardization and national education— the first modernity of language . In this way, Weber felt, language can be a means to domination.
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language ethnicity and the nation state on max weber s conception of imagined Linguistic Community
Theory and Society, 2018Co-Authors: Mitsuhiro TadaAbstract:Methodological nationalism in sociological theory is unfit for the current globalized era, and should be discarded. In light of this contention, the present article discusses Max Weber’s view of language as a way to relativize the frame of the national society. While a “Linguistic turn” in sociology since the 1960s has assumed that the sharing of language—Linguistic Community—stands as an intersubjective foundation for understanding of meaning, Weber saw Linguistic Community as constructed. From Weber’s rationalist, subjectivist, individualist viewpoint, Linguistic Community was a result of social actions, not a prior entity as assumed by German metaphysical organicism (and historicist holism). Indeed, Central Europe in Weber’s era was a battlefield of Linguistic nationalism(s); in contrast to the national societies of the Cold War period, national borders were unstable and ultimately the multiethnic empires of the region were dismantled after World War I into ethnoLinguistic nation-states. Experience of this contemporary reality brought Weber to the core of the relationship between language and politics: A language Community is an imaginary one demarcated not by language itself but by conscious opposition against outsiders, with monolingual contexts within borders created artificially by homogenizing policies like Linguistic standardization and national education—the first modernity of language. In this way, Weber felt, language can be a means to domination.
Darius Bossé - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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La 'communauté linguistique française' du Nouveau-Brunswick dans l’article 16.1 de la Charte canadienne des droits et libertés: entre politiques de reconnaissance et reconnaissance politique d’une communauté linguistique au Canada (The 'French Lingui
2014Co-Authors: Christophe Traisnel, Darius BosséAbstract:French Abstract: Le present article interroge la portee et les limites de la reconnaissance, par l’article 16.1 de la Charte canadienne des droits et liberte, d'une «communaute linguistique francaise». Les auteurs tentent de montrer qu’en definitive cette «exception» s’inscrit dans la definition du modele canadien de reconnaissance des langues officielles plus qu’elle ne s’en dissocie. En ce sens, ce qui, a priori, peut etre presente comme une «exception» semble plutot confirmer la «regle». Les auteurs cherchent, en particulier, a montrer que les politiques de bilinguisme au Canada tendent a contraindre plus qu’a permettre la reconnaissance des identites collectives et des communautes qui s’en reclament. Par ce cas de figure, il s’agira aussi de mieux eclairer le caractere «particulier» du Nouveau-Brunswick et, par ricochet, de cette «communaute linguistique francaise» telle qu’elle a ete reconnue dans la Charte canadienne des droits et libertes.English Abstract: This article examines the scope and limits of the recognition, by section 16.1 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, of a "French Linguistic Community". The authors attempt to show that this "exception" ultimately falls within the definition of the Canadian official languages model of recognition more than it dissociates itself from it. In this sense, what could, a priori, be presented as an "exception" rather seems to confirm the "rule". In particular, the authors seek to show that bilingualism policies in Canada tend to limit more than allow the recognition of collective identities and the communities who claim it. Through their case study, they also aim to better highlight the "particular" nature of New Brunswick and, in turn, of this "French Linguistic Community", as recognized in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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la communaute linguistique francaise du nouveau brunswick dans l article 16 1 de la charte canadienne des droits et libertes entre politiques de reconnaissance et reconnaissance politique d une communaute linguistique au canada the french Linguistic
2014Co-Authors: Christophe Traisnel, Darius BosséAbstract:French Abstract: Le present article interroge la portee et les limites de la reconnaissance, par l’article 16.1 de la Charte canadienne des droits et liberte, d'une «communaute linguistique francaise». Les auteurs tentent de montrer qu’en definitive cette «exception» s’inscrit dans la definition du modele canadien de reconnaissance des langues officielles plus qu’elle ne s’en dissocie. En ce sens, ce qui, a priori, peut etre presente comme une «exception» semble plutot confirmer la «regle». Les auteurs cherchent, en particulier, a montrer que les politiques de bilinguisme au Canada tendent a contraindre plus qu’a permettre la reconnaissance des identites collectives et des communautes qui s’en reclament. Par ce cas de figure, il s’agira aussi de mieux eclairer le caractere «particulier» du Nouveau-Brunswick et, par ricochet, de cette «communaute linguistique francaise» telle qu’elle a ete reconnue dans la Charte canadienne des droits et libertes.English Abstract: This article examines the scope and limits of the recognition, by section 16.1 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, of a "French Linguistic Community". The authors attempt to show that this "exception" ultimately falls within the definition of the Canadian official languages model of recognition more than it dissociates itself from it. In this sense, what could, a priori, be presented as an "exception" rather seems to confirm the "rule". In particular, the authors seek to show that bilingualism policies in Canada tend to limit more than allow the recognition of collective identities and the communities who claim it. Through their case study, they also aim to better highlight the "particular" nature of New Brunswick and, in turn, of this "French Linguistic Community", as recognized in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Eef Ameel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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native likeness in second language lexical categorization reflects individual language history and Linguistic Community norms
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014Co-Authors: Benjamin Zinszer, Barbara C Malt, Eef AmeelAbstract:Second language learners face a dual challenge in vocabulary learning: First, they must learn new names for the hundreds of common objects that they encounter every day. Second, after some time, they discover that these names do not generalize according to the same rules used in their first language. Lexical categories frequently differ between languages (Malt et al., 1999), and successful language learning requires that bilinguals learn not just new words but new patterns for labeling objects. In the present study, Chinese learners of English with varying language histories and resident in two different language settings (Beijing, China and State College, PA, USA) named 67 photographs of common serving dishes (e.g., cups, plates, and bowls) in both Chinese and English. Participants’ response patterns were quantified in terms of similarity to the responses of functionally monolingual native speakers of Chinese and English and showed the cross-language convergence previously observed in simultaneous bilinguals (Ameel et al., 2005). For English, bilinguals’ names for each individual stimulus were also compared to the dominant name generated by the native speakers for the object. Using two statistical models, we disentangle the effects of several highly interactive variables from bilinguals' language histories and the naming norms of the native speaker Community to predict inter-personal and inter-item variation in L2 (English) native-likeness. We find only a modest age of earliest exposure effect on L2 category native-likeness, but importantly, we find that classroom instruction in L2 negatively impacts L2 category native-likeness, even after significant immersion experience. We also identify a significant role of both L1 and L2 norms in bilinguals’ L2 picture naming responses.
Christophe Traisnel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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La 'communauté linguistique française' du Nouveau-Brunswick dans l’article 16.1 de la Charte canadienne des droits et libertés: entre politiques de reconnaissance et reconnaissance politique d’une communauté linguistique au Canada (The 'French Lingui
2014Co-Authors: Christophe Traisnel, Darius BosséAbstract:French Abstract: Le present article interroge la portee et les limites de la reconnaissance, par l’article 16.1 de la Charte canadienne des droits et liberte, d'une «communaute linguistique francaise». Les auteurs tentent de montrer qu’en definitive cette «exception» s’inscrit dans la definition du modele canadien de reconnaissance des langues officielles plus qu’elle ne s’en dissocie. En ce sens, ce qui, a priori, peut etre presente comme une «exception» semble plutot confirmer la «regle». Les auteurs cherchent, en particulier, a montrer que les politiques de bilinguisme au Canada tendent a contraindre plus qu’a permettre la reconnaissance des identites collectives et des communautes qui s’en reclament. Par ce cas de figure, il s’agira aussi de mieux eclairer le caractere «particulier» du Nouveau-Brunswick et, par ricochet, de cette «communaute linguistique francaise» telle qu’elle a ete reconnue dans la Charte canadienne des droits et libertes.English Abstract: This article examines the scope and limits of the recognition, by section 16.1 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, of a "French Linguistic Community". The authors attempt to show that this "exception" ultimately falls within the definition of the Canadian official languages model of recognition more than it dissociates itself from it. In this sense, what could, a priori, be presented as an "exception" rather seems to confirm the "rule". In particular, the authors seek to show that bilingualism policies in Canada tend to limit more than allow the recognition of collective identities and the communities who claim it. Through their case study, they also aim to better highlight the "particular" nature of New Brunswick and, in turn, of this "French Linguistic Community", as recognized in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
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la communaute linguistique francaise du nouveau brunswick dans l article 16 1 de la charte canadienne des droits et libertes entre politiques de reconnaissance et reconnaissance politique d une communaute linguistique au canada the french Linguistic
2014Co-Authors: Christophe Traisnel, Darius BosséAbstract:French Abstract: Le present article interroge la portee et les limites de la reconnaissance, par l’article 16.1 de la Charte canadienne des droits et liberte, d'une «communaute linguistique francaise». Les auteurs tentent de montrer qu’en definitive cette «exception» s’inscrit dans la definition du modele canadien de reconnaissance des langues officielles plus qu’elle ne s’en dissocie. En ce sens, ce qui, a priori, peut etre presente comme une «exception» semble plutot confirmer la «regle». Les auteurs cherchent, en particulier, a montrer que les politiques de bilinguisme au Canada tendent a contraindre plus qu’a permettre la reconnaissance des identites collectives et des communautes qui s’en reclament. Par ce cas de figure, il s’agira aussi de mieux eclairer le caractere «particulier» du Nouveau-Brunswick et, par ricochet, de cette «communaute linguistique francaise» telle qu’elle a ete reconnue dans la Charte canadienne des droits et libertes.English Abstract: This article examines the scope and limits of the recognition, by section 16.1 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, of a "French Linguistic Community". The authors attempt to show that this "exception" ultimately falls within the definition of the Canadian official languages model of recognition more than it dissociates itself from it. In this sense, what could, a priori, be presented as an "exception" rather seems to confirm the "rule". In particular, the authors seek to show that bilingualism policies in Canada tend to limit more than allow the recognition of collective identities and the communities who claim it. Through their case study, they also aim to better highlight the "particular" nature of New Brunswick and, in turn, of this "French Linguistic Community", as recognized in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Liu Hong-yan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Informativity of Texts and Reading Comprehension
Information Sciences, 2011Co-Authors: Liu Hong-yanAbstract:In the Linguistic Community,the research into the informativity of texts has enjoyed world-wide attention.Text linguists Beaugrande and Dressler proposed 7 standards of textuality in 1981: cohesion,coherence,intentionality,acceptability,informativity,situationality,and intertextuality.The informativity plays a significant role in the constructing and comprehending of texts.The thematic structure and the information structure are the major contents of the informativity theory,which are of considerable instructive significance for text reading comprehension.