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17 07 07 Issue9 LDS Page De Garde Language & Society, RC 25 of the International Sociological Association Volume 5, Number 1 June 2017 LLaanngguuaaggee DDiissccoouurrssee && SSoocciieettyy ISSN: 2239-4192 http://language-and-society.org/journal Language, Discourse & Society ISSN: 2239-4192 http://language-and-society.org/journal [email protected] Language, Discourse & Society A Journal Published by the Language & Society, Research Committee 25 of the International Sociological Association Thematic issue Language, Identity, and Imagined Communities This issue is guest-edited by Mark Fiffer Seilhamer, National Institute of Education, Singapore Editorial Board Stéphanie Cassilde, Centre d’Etudes en Habitat Durable, Belgium (Journal Editor) Amado Alarcon, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Federico Farini, University Campus Suffolk, United Kingdom Keiji Fujiyoshi, Otemon Gakuin University, Japan Nadezhda Georgieva-Stankova, Trakia University, Bulgaria Christian Karner, The University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Trinidad Valle, Fordham University, USA Language, Discourse & Society is an international peer reviewed journal published twice annually (June and December) in electronic form. The journal publishes high-quality articles dedicated to all aspects of sociological analyses of language, discourse and representation. The editorial board will consider proposed articles based on clear methodological and theoretical commitment to studies of language. Articles must substantially engage theory and/or methods for analyzing language, discourse, representation, or situated talk. Note for contributors: Please check the website (http://www.language-and- society.org/journal/index.html), RC25 Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/ISARC25/timeline?ref=page_internal) and RC25 newsletter periodically for the announcement of the new call for articles, and authors’ guidelines. For any information please feel free to email: [email protected] Language, Discourse & Society Contents Volume 5, Number 1 June 2017 Message from the editor ............................................................................................................. 3 Message from the guest editor ................................................................................................... 5 Call for guest-editors for e- journal Language, Discourse and Society ................................. 9 Original rticles - Language, Identity, and Imagined Communities Shelley Dawson An investigation into the identity/imagined community relationship: A case study of two language learners in New Zealand .......................................................................................... 15 Jeffrey Maloney & Peter I. De Costa Imagining the Japanese heritage learner: A scalar perspective ........................................... 35 Howard Davis, Graham Day, Marta Eichsteller & Sally Baker Language in autobiographical narratives: Motivation, capital and transnational imaginations............................................................................................................................... 53 Cyril Robelin La plus petite communauté imaginée du monde: le Territoire Neutre de Moresnet ......... 71 Varia (Original rticles) Delin Deng Oui and Voilà: Analysis of two discourse markers used by Chinese-L1 speakers of French in France .................................................................................................................................... 93 Maliheh Rezaei Investigating Degree of Familiarity, Formality and Frequency of Slang Used by Farsi Speakers: A Situation-Based Study ....................................................................................... 105 Emmanuel Amo Ofori The Use of Insults to Challenge Political Authority: A Critical Discourse Analysis ........ 129 Natasha S. K. Truth and Truth-Telling in the Agricultural Biotechnology Debate in India ................... 145 Book Review Uju Anya (2017). Racialized Identities in Second Language Learning. Speaking Blackness in Brazil , Routledge, 254 pages, ISBN 978-1-1389-2778-0 and 978-1-3156-8228-0 ........... 165 RC25 Awards .......................................................................................................................... 167 Past editorial boards ............................................................................................................... 169 Language & Society Research Committee 25 of the International Sociological ssociation Language, Discourse & Society , vol. 5, no. 1(9), 2017 -essage from the editor This 9 th issue of Language, Discourse & Society is the first thematic issue. I am particularly grateful to Mark Fifer Seilhamer to undertake this evolution both for sharing his experience with us, and, through this, for his support to LD&S . Mark is currently a lecturer in the English Language & Literature (ELL) academic group at the National Institute of Education in Singapore. His research interests are mainly related to sociolinguistics throught the following issues: language and identity, language ideologies/attitudes, and language planning and policy. While developing thematic issues, Language, Discourse & Society still publishes a varia section, which welcomes contributions in relation to its editorial line: sociology of language, and sociolinguistics. The varia section of this issue counts four articles. Delin Deng contributes to discourse markers understanding. Focusing on the French spoken by Chinese-native speakers in France, a linguistic analysis of oui and voilà , is conducted. These functionally interchangeable discourse markers are used differently by French native speakers and Chinese-L1-speakers of French: while the former preferentially use voilà , the later rather use oui , which is also the preferred form in Mandarin Chinese. This preference appears to change according the composition of social network (if native speakers are included): then, the use of oui decreases. Maliheh Rezaei contributes to the understanding of familiarity, formality, and frequency regarding slang. Focusing on Farsi native speakers in Iran, various slang use situations are analysed together: describing people, humiliating people, and expressing feelings. The mixed-method approach underlines both the familiarity of native speakers with slang whatever age, gender, and educationnal level, and that it may be considered as a part of mainstream speech. 3 Emmanuel Amo Ofori contributes to the understanding of insults. The case of their use in Ghanaian political discourse underlines a feature as a mean to challenge existing politicians. They are embedded in a way to empower given voices, beyond the usual status of insults as causing mental pain, embarrassment, and disgrace. Finally, Natasha S. K. contributes to the multidimensional understanding of biotechnology discourses and the questioning of thruth-telling. The analysis is undertaken in the Indian case. Similar language is used by those who are in favour, as those who are against it. Alongside, ends of each position varies in the public meaning making process. Finally, the book reviews section presents Racialized Identities in Second Language Learning. Speaking Blackness in Brazil (2017), written by Uju Anya and published by Routledge. The December 2017 issue of Language, Discourse & Society will be dedicated to “« Migrants », « Refugees », « Boat people » and the Mediterranean Crisis: People in Words, Language Issues”, under the leadership of Frédéric Moulène (Université de Strasbourg & Université de Franche-Comté, France), the guest-editor for this call. Stéphanie Cassilde, Editor in Chief Language, Discourse and Society Centre d’Etudes en Habitat Durable Belgium [email protected] Language, Discourse & Society , vol. 5, no. 1(9), 2017 Language, Discourse & Society , vol. 5, no. 1(9), 2017 -essage from the guest editor Mark Fifer Seilhamer, Guest Editor National Institution of Education Singapore [email protected] The concept of imagined communities, originally put forth by Benedict Anderson in 1983, has had its links to language and identity highlighted from its first conceptualization. A political scientist and historian, Anderson’s central concern was chronicling how nationalism originated and spread. His imagined communities concept explained how citizens of nations are able to conceptualize their own national communities, which Anderson (1991: 6) 1 argues can only be described as imaginary “because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members, meet them, or even hear of them, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion”. He credits print-capitalism for facilitating the creation of imagined national communities due to the profit motive for printers, who chose to print works in particular dialects since printing multiple versions in various language varieties would not have been at all economically feasible. This turbo-charged the language standardization process, with the chosen dialects emerging as the standard language varieties of power and education. Whereas different regional dialects had previously played a substantial role in preventing individuals from imagining any sort of shared identity with their fellow citizens in other regions, the existence of a common standardized language variety with which printed works (especially newspapers) addressed a national audience made a shared identity with those 5 in other regions of a country far more imaginable. Application of the imagined communities concept
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