Chantal Tetreault
Biographic Data
| ID | 111155 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chantal Tetreault |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chantal |
| FAMILY NAME | Tetreault |
| SIGNATURE | TETREAULT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1453-1588 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Heritage language, racialization, and (post-)colonialism
This introduction to a double special issue features anti-hegemonic conceptualizations of imagined relationships between heritage and heritage language; race, racism, and racialization; colonialism and coloniality. It considers each set of terms as predominantly shaped by European colonialisms and semiotically configured into metrics of sociolinguistic inequality promulgating and/or resisting white supremacy in its various forms and permutations …
Contested heritage landscapes for Arabic language learning in a postcolonial France
This article analyzes the contested and multiple meanings of “heritage” that emerge for advanced Arabic language learners in a postcolonial France. A linguistic life histories approach reveals a fraught duality of privileged access and exclusionary adversity for heritage students of Arabic. We analyze three university students' politicized subject positions relative to a postcolonial French heritage landscape in which Arabic language study is mar…
Reflecting respect: Transcultural communicative practices of muslim French youth
This article explores how ideologies derived from North African culture are transformed in local expressions of identity among Muslim French adolescents. Naturally-occurring interactional data were collected among adolescents of primarily Algerian descent living in a cité (a low-income housing project) outside Paris. The study shows that the local identity practices of Muslim French teens articulate with transcultural ideologies of identity, but …
Wrestling with Tradition: Reconstructing Jewish Community through Negotiating Shared Purpose
This article analyzes how congregants in a lay-led Reconstructionist synagogue discursively contest and perform sharedness through active engagement, interpretation, and public disagreements about how to create and sustain Jewish community. I argue that such ‘wrestling with tradition’—that is, questioning, negotiating, and (re)creating traditions in the context of countercultural and eclectic Jewish community—is achieved through collaborative and…
Youth Language
Linguistic anthropology only began taking serious notice of youth language starting in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Despite the fact that a youth focus developed fairly recently in the field, linguistic anthropology has wholeheartedly embraced the study of youth and youth language. Scholars have noted that youth language seems to make particularly visible the emergent aspects of language and identity; research on youth language has especially …
Linguistic Diversity and Plurality in Europe
Linguistic diversity and plurality in Europe have been predominantly shaped by the historical forces of nation‐building and colonialism, forces which overlap and coexist in important ways. In addition to covering these processes, this entry covers migration and globalization in the postcolonial context. The first section deals with projects and processes of nation‐building and their effects upon linguistic diversity in Europe. The second section …
Sherzer's Discourse-Centered Approach Applied to Cultural Change Across Generations of Speakers
This paper considers Sherzer's Discourse-Centered Approach with respect to language and cultural change within Arab immigrant-heritage communities in France. Using data pertaining to an Arabic politeness formula, I apply Sherzer's model to situations of grammatical creativity across generations of speakers. I argue that Sherzer's model can enhance our understandings of how speakers living in diaspora transform "traditional" or codified linguistic…
What do you think about having beauty marks on your-Hashek: Innovative and Impolite Uses of anArabic Politeness Formula amongFrench Teenagers
This article addresses howFrench teenagers of NorthAfrican (primarilyAlgerian) descent transform theArabic speech actHashekthrough their nontraditional and innovative uses. InFrench language interactions that involved adversarial teasing or public criticism of a peer,ArabFrench teenagers used the politeness formulaHashekas a self-corrective to simultaneously facilitate and mitigate such irreverent behavior. In addition, teenagers usedHashekas an …
Can Islam Be French? Pluralism and Pragmatism in a Secularist StateJohn R.Bowen (Princeton: (Princeton University Press, 2010)
Cultural citizenship in France and le Bled among teens of pan-southern immigrant heritage
Collaborative Conflicts: Teens Performing Aggression and Intimacy in a FrenchCité
This article shows that emergent meanings of impoliteness and insult in interaction are central to communicative exchanges among French adolescents of Algerian descent living in acité, or low-income housing project. In the speech event "parental name calling" nonpolite interactions are routinely interpreted as politic or appropriate by adolescents. Yet these performances of conflict are not without risk. The potential slippage between ritual and …
Citéteens entextualizing French TV host register: Crossing, voicing, and participation frameworks
This article addresses data that reside at the confluence of three types of linguistic "crossing" (Rampton 1995) among working-class French teens of predominantly Algerian descent. Strategically using the microphone of the researcher to imitate an elite French television show host, performers create indirect reported speech and direct stylized voicing for present peers and thereby mock them as show "guests." Through analysis of such data, this ar…
La racaille
Dominant French discourses stigmatize la racaille (‘male street toughs’) in a national moral panic about cités (‘subsidized housing projects’). This paper examines how these discourses influence everyday talk and experiences of public space in Chemin de l’Ile, a cité west of Paris. In both national and local discourses, la racaille symbolizes stigmatized public spaces, particularly la rue (‘the street’). However, inhabitants in Chemin de l’Ile mo…
Census and Identity: The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Language in National Censuses
Society for the Anthropology of Europe: Letter From the Field
Collaborative Conflicts: Teens Performing Aggression and Intimacy in a FrenchCité
This article shows that emergent meanings of impoliteness and insult in interaction are central to communicative exchanges among French adolescents of Algerian descent living in acité, or low-income housing project. In the speech event "parental name calling" nonpolite interactions are routinely interpreted as politic or appropriate by adolescents. Yet these performances of conflict are not without risk. The potential slippage between ritual and …
Census and Identity: The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Language in National Censuses
Cultural citizenship in France and le Bled among teens of pan-southern immigrant heritage
Citéteens entextualizing French TV host register: Crossing, voicing, and participation frameworks
This article addresses data that reside at the confluence of three types of linguistic "crossing" (Rampton 1995) among working-class French teens of predominantly Algerian descent. Strategically using the microphone of the researcher to imitate an elite French television show host, performers create indirect reported speech and direct stylized voicing for present peers and thereby mock them as show "guests." Through analysis of such data, this ar…
What do you think about having beauty marks on your-Hashek: Innovative and Impolite Uses of anArabic Politeness Formula amongFrench Teenagers
This article addresses howFrench teenagers of NorthAfrican (primarilyAlgerian) descent transform theArabic speech actHashekthrough their nontraditional and innovative uses. InFrench language interactions that involved adversarial teasing or public criticism of a peer,ArabFrench teenagers used the politeness formulaHashekas a self-corrective to simultaneously facilitate and mitigate such irreverent behavior. In addition, teenagers usedHashekas an …
La racaille
Dominant French discourses stigmatize la racaille (‘male street toughs’) in a national moral panic about cités (‘subsidized housing projects’). This paper examines how these discourses influence everyday talk and experiences of public space in Chemin de l’Ile, a cité west of Paris. In both national and local discourses, la racaille symbolizes stigmatized public spaces, particularly la rue (‘the street’). However, inhabitants in Chemin de l’Ile mo…
Sherzer's Discourse-Centered Approach Applied to Cultural Change Across Generations of Speakers
This paper considers Sherzer's Discourse-Centered Approach with respect to language and cultural change within Arab immigrant-heritage communities in France. Using data pertaining to an Arabic politeness formula, I apply Sherzer's model to situations of grammatical creativity across generations of speakers. I argue that Sherzer's model can enhance our understandings of how speakers living in diaspora transform "traditional" or codified linguistic…
Society for the Anthropology of Europe: Letter From the Field
Census and Identity: The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Language in National Censuses
La racaille
Dominant French discourses stigmatize la racaille (‘male street toughs’) in a national moral panic about cités (‘subsidized housing projects’). This paper examines how these discourses influence everyday talk and experiences of public space in Chemin de l’Ile, a cité west of Paris. In both national and local discourses, la racaille symbolizes stigmatized public spaces, particularly la rue (‘the street’). However, inhabitants in Chemin de l’Ile mo…
Citéteens entextualizing French TV host register: Crossing, voicing, and participation frameworks
This article addresses data that reside at the confluence of three types of linguistic "crossing" (Rampton 1995) among working-class French teens of predominantly Algerian descent. Strategically using the microphone of the researcher to imitate an elite French television show host, performers create indirect reported speech and direct stylized voicing for present peers and thereby mock them as show "guests." Through analysis of such data, this ar…
Collaborative Conflicts: Teens Performing Aggression and Intimacy in a FrenchCité
This article shows that emergent meanings of impoliteness and insult in interaction are central to communicative exchanges among French adolescents of Algerian descent living in acité, or low-income housing project. In the speech event "parental name calling" nonpolite interactions are routinely interpreted as politic or appropriate by adolescents. Yet these performances of conflict are not without risk. The potential slippage between ritual and …
Cultural citizenship in France and le Bled among teens of pan-southern immigrant heritage
Can Islam Be French? Pluralism and Pragmatism in a Secularist StateJohn R.Bowen (Princeton: (Princeton University Press, 2010)
What do you think about having beauty marks on your-Hashek: Innovative and Impolite Uses of anArabic Politeness Formula amongFrench Teenagers
This article addresses howFrench teenagers of NorthAfrican (primarilyAlgerian) descent transform theArabic speech actHashekthrough their nontraditional and innovative uses. InFrench language interactions that involved adversarial teasing or public criticism of a peer,ArabFrench teenagers used the politeness formulaHashekas a self-corrective to simultaneously facilitate and mitigate such irreverent behavior. In addition, teenagers usedHashekas an …
Sherzer's Discourse-Centered Approach Applied to Cultural Change Across Generations of Speakers
This paper considers Sherzer's Discourse-Centered Approach with respect to language and cultural change within Arab immigrant-heritage communities in France. Using data pertaining to an Arabic politeness formula, I apply Sherzer's model to situations of grammatical creativity across generations of speakers. I argue that Sherzer's model can enhance our understandings of how speakers living in diaspora transform "traditional" or codified linguistic…
Youth Language
Linguistic anthropology only began taking serious notice of youth language starting in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Despite the fact that a youth focus developed fairly recently in the field, linguistic anthropology has wholeheartedly embraced the study of youth and youth language. Scholars have noted that youth language seems to make particularly visible the emergent aspects of language and identity; research on youth language has especially …
Linguistic Diversity and Plurality in Europe
Linguistic diversity and plurality in Europe have been predominantly shaped by the historical forces of nation‐building and colonialism, forces which overlap and coexist in important ways. In addition to covering these processes, this entry covers migration and globalization in the postcolonial context. The first section deals with projects and processes of nation‐building and their effects upon linguistic diversity in Europe. The second section …
Wrestling with Tradition: Reconstructing Jewish Community through Negotiating Shared Purpose
This article analyzes how congregants in a lay-led Reconstructionist synagogue discursively contest and perform sharedness through active engagement, interpretation, and public disagreements about how to create and sustain Jewish community. I argue that such ‘wrestling with tradition’—that is, questioning, negotiating, and (re)creating traditions in the context of countercultural and eclectic Jewish community—is achieved through collaborative and…
Reflecting respect: Transcultural communicative practices of muslim French youth
This article explores how ideologies derived from North African culture are transformed in local expressions of identity among Muslim French adolescents. Naturally-occurring interactional data were collected among adolescents of primarily Algerian descent living in a cité (a low-income housing project) outside Paris. The study shows that the local identity practices of Muslim French teens articulate with transcultural ideologies of identity, but …
Heritage language, racialization, and (post-)colonialism
This introduction to a double special issue features anti-hegemonic conceptualizations of imagined relationships between heritage and heritage language; race, racism, and racialization; colonialism and coloniality. It considers each set of terms as predominantly shaped by European colonialisms and semiotically configured into metrics of sociolinguistic inequality promulgating and/or resisting white supremacy in its various forms and permutations …
Contested heritage landscapes for Arabic language learning in a postcolonial France
This article analyzes the contested and multiple meanings of “heritage” that emerge for advanced Arabic language learners in a postcolonial France. A linguistic life histories approach reveals a fraught duality of privileged access and exclusionary adversity for heritage students of Arabic. We analyze three university students' politicized subject positions relative to a postcolonial French heritage landscape in which Arabic language study is mar…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (5 works) · Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works)