Standardization, Racialization, Languagelessness

Raciolinguistic Ideologies across Communicative Contexts

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2286152
AutoresJ Rosa (0000-0003-4794-0537, Stanford University, autor correspondente), Jonathan Daniel Rosa (Graduate School of Education Stanford University)
Ano2016
Volume26
Fascículo2
Páginas162-183
Data de publicação2016-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Linguistic Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1055-1360 • E-ISSN: 1548-1395
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/jola.12116
OpenAlexW2512827424
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas267
Referências citadas37

This article examines the racialized relationship between ideologies of language standardization and what I term "languagelessness." Whereas ideologies of language standardization stigmatize particular linguistic practices understood to deviate from prescriptive norms, ideologies of languagelessness call into question linguistic competence-and, by extension, legitimate personhood-altogether. Throughout the article I show how these ideologies interact with one another, and how assessments of particular individuals' language use often invoke broader ideas about the (in)competence and (il)legitimacy of entire racialized groups. I focus specifically on dimensions of the racialized relationship between ideologies of language standardization and languagelessness in contemporary framings of U.S. Latinas/os and their linguistic practices. I draw on a range of evidence, including ethnographic data collected within a predominantly Latina/o U.S. high school, institutional policies, and scholarly conceptions of language. When analyzed collectively, these sources highlight the racialized ways that ideologies of language standardization and languagelessness become linked in theory, policy, and everyday interactions. In my examination of these data through the lens of racialization, I seek to theorize how ideologies of language standardization and languagelessness contribute to the enactment of forms of societal inclusion and exclusion in relation to different sociopolitical contexts, ethnoracial categories, and linguistic practices

Inclusion–exclusion principle · Language ideology · Metadiscourse · Racialization · Standard language · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Second Language Learning and Teaching