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Language and citizenship : broadening the agenda /

This volume offers fresh, cutting-edge perspectives on issues of language and citizenship by casting a critical light on a broad spectrum of geo-political contexts - Flanders, Luxembourg, Singapore, South Africa, the UK - and discourse data - policy documents, newspaper articles, ethnographic notes...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Milani, Tommaso M. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]
Colección:Benjamins current topics ; 91.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Language and Citizenship; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Language and citizenship; 1. Introduction; 2. Citizenship: Status, habitus, acts; 2.1 Status, linguistic capital, and the reproduction of social inequality; 2.2 Habitus, heteroglossia, and the ambivalent life of authoritative discourse; 2.3 Acts of linguistic and bodily citizenship; 2.4 Instead of reaching consensus; 3. Where to from here?; References; Integration in Flanders (Belgium)
  • Citizenship as achievement; 1. Introduction.
  • 2. The virtualization of citizenship: Shifting from a formal to a moral concept of citizenship2.1 Conceptualizing citizenship; 2.2 Integration and citizenship policies intertwined; 2.3 Citizenship and language policies; 3. Socio-political and socio-cultural context in Belgium and Flanders; 3.1 The Belgian state structure; 3.2 Different frames of reference regarding integration and citizenship in Flanders and Wallonia; 3.3 Transition into a super-diverse society; 4. Language policies in Flanders: Citizenship and integration intertwined; 4.1 Sub-state nation-building in Flanders.
  • 4.2 Citizenship as achievement in Flanders4.3 Wallonia, integration policies at a slower but more and more steady pace; 5. Conclusion; References; Language regimes and acts of citizenship in multilingual Luxembourg; 1. Introduction; 2. Bridging the gap between language politics and citizenship studies; 3. Language ideological debates and citizenship legislation in Luxembourg; 4. Discourses on language, integration and citizenship in Luxembourg; 4.1 Language regimes and the duties of integration; 4.2 Acts of citizenship and democratic participation.
  • 5. Conclusion: Language and citizenship in 21st century Luxembourg and the EUAcknowledgements; References; 'They look into your lips'; 1. Introduction; 2. The historical context of British citizenship; 3. Citizenship ceremonies; 4. Becoming; 5. Methodology; 6. Becoming British: Application process and citizenship ceremony; 6.1 Waiting to become British; 6.2 'They look into our lips'
  • The ceremony; 7. Conclusion; References; Linguistic citizenship; 1. Introduction; 2. Performing acts of citizenship; 3. The skit; 4. Discussion; 5. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Sexual cityzenship.
  • 1. Introduction2. Discourse-based studies on citizenship meet research on linguistic landscapes ... through sexuality; 3. Joburg Pride vs. One in Nine Campaign; 3.1 Joburg Pride 2012; 3.2 One in Nine Campaign; 4. Troubling performances of sexual cityzenship; 4.1 Pride/shame and national identity: Proudly South African or not?; 4.2 History repeats ... uncannily: Black bodies on the tarmac; 5. Concluding remarks; References; The party's over?; 1. Introduction; 2. The People's Action Party and the politics of citizenship; 3. Engaging the citizenry over the years; 3.1 From nation-state to global city.