Kathryn A Woolard
Biographic Data
| ID | 123149 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathryn A Woolard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathryn A |
| FAMILY NAME | Woolard |
| SIGNATURE | WOOLARD K A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 536 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Codeswitching and comedy in Catalonia
Many case studies have contributed to the understanding of the extent to which conversational language mixing or codeswitching in bilingual communities is orderly, systematic, and meaningful. A large number of those studies that attempt to move beyond the descriptive and taxonomic draw on two important approaches, one more narrowly linguistic, the other more social in its explanatory assumptions. The first approach is that which identifies syntac…
Language ideology: Issues and approaches
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Language Ideology
Language ideologies are morally and politically loaded representations of the structure and use of languages in a social world. They link language to identities, institutions, and values in all societies. Such ideologies actively mediate between and shape linguistic forms and social processes. Three research streams that joined in the early 1990s to bring language ideologies into focus are discussed. Theoretical tools of semiotic and social analy…
"You Have to Be Against Bilingualism!" Sociolinguistic Theory and Controversies Over Bilingualism in Catalonia
Bilingualism” has long been a provocative term in Catalonia, where the concept is more often treated as ideology than as a description of sociolinguistic fact. I present a critical overview of controversies over bilingualism in Catalonia and focus on excavating the rationales underlying Catalanist anti-bilingual stances. This case exemplifies issues in the social contextualization, de-contextualization, and re-contextualization of theoretical con…
Singular and Plural: Ideologies of Linguistic Authority in 21st Century Catalonia
A surge of public and political advocacy for an independent Catalonia has brought renewed urgency to questions about what it means, personally and politically, to speak or not to speak Catalan and to claim Catalan identity. This book develops a framework for analyzing ideologies of linguistic authority and uses it to illuminate the politics of language in Catalonia, where Catalan jostles with Castilian for legitimacy. Longitudinal research by the…
Branding like a State: Establishing Catalan Singularity at the Frankfurt Book Fair
The designation of Catalan culture as guest of honor at the 2007 Frankfurt Book Fair raised controversy over whether Catalan culture is expressed in one language or two. This was an opportunity for elites to promote Catalan industry internationally but also to compete over visions of Catalonia for domestic political purposes. An analysis of media texts from the controversy shows that national branding emerged as a key trope in the official defens…
Catalan in the twenty-first century: Romantic publics and cosmopolitan communities
The politics surrounding identity in Catalonia traditionally have been based in a monolingual Romantic ideal that pits Catalan and Castilian against each other as two mutually exclusive languages and corresponding identities. Public discourses and debates over language policy often still draw on these traditional assumptions about language. In contrast, in the language contact zones where actual speakers live, there has been a collective restruct…
Is the personal political? Chronotopes and changing stances toward Catalan language and identity
During the early catalanization of schooling in the Barcelona area in the 1980s, Castilian-speaking teenagers of working-class immigrant descent often struggled against Catalan language and identity. This longitudinal study followed a group of high-school classmates and found that as young adults, some but not all of the resistant working-class Castilian speakers have incorporated Catalan into their lives and identity. This article draws on Mikha…
Is there linguistic life after high school? Longitudinal changes in the bilingual repertoire in metropolitan Barcelona
Do linguistic identities formed in high school endure after adolescence? Do age-related linguistic differences represent community trends over historical time, or are they age-graded practices that change over biographical time? Catalan advocates worry that perceived Castilian dominance in adolescents' peer relations and media consumption forecasts the community's sociolinguistic future. To investigate the possibility of change in bilingual reper…
Whydatnow: Linguistic-anthropological contributions to the explanation of sociolinguistic icons and change1
One way to renew conversation between linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics is to bring concepts of linguistic ideology to the explanation of the iconization of specific sociolinguistic variables and associated sociolinguistic change. Sociolinguists such asEckert (2000)andMilroy (2004)have made provocative efforts to incorporate linguistic-anthropological concepts into sociolinguistic explanation. What is still lacking is a full explanatio…
Strategic bivalency in Latin and Spanish in early modern Spain
This article examines a genre of literary texts in early modern Spain written to be readable in both Latin and Spanish. These texts provide explicit evidence of a phenomenon called “strategic bivalency.” They exemplify both the ideological erasure of language boundaries by experts and the purposeful mobilization of bivalent elements that belong simultaneously to two languages in contact. It is argued that by using such bivalency strategically, sp…
Is the Past a Foreign Country: Time, Language Origins, and the Nation in Early Modern Spain
Theorists such as Benedict Anderson have associated the development of a historicized sense of time, in contrast to an atemporal messianic time, with epochal social changes, in particular the emergence of the nation. This article discovers the two contrasting senses of time in a 17th-century controversy over the origin of the Spanish language. The competing views of the past in the Spanish debate underpinned different visions not only of language…
Bernardo de Aldrete, humanist and laminario
La relación de Bernardo de Aldrete, humanista y filólogo, con el caso del Sacromonte fue ambigua. Su primer libro, publicado en 1606, fue una historia innovadora de la lengua española. Notable por sus métodos rigurosos de investigación lingüística, la obra mostró los orígenes latinos del español y rechazó su existencia antes de la época de los godos. La tesis de Aldrete fue atacada por impugnar la autenticidad del pergamino de la Torre Turpiana. …
Bernardo de Aldrete and the Morisco Problem: A Study in Early Modern Spanish Language Ideology
In 1606, Bernardo José de Aldrete,Sometimes spelled “Alderete;” b.1560 Malaga, d.1641 Cordoba. (See Mondéjar Cumpián 1974 for discussion of the confusion over these dates and places.) Spanish cleric and humanist antiquarian, published the first history of the Spanish language, On the origin and beginnings of the Castilian language or Romance, which is used in Spain today.Henceforth “Origin.” Translations are my own, unless otherwise noted.Aldrete…
Linguistic Variation as Social Practice: The Linguistic Construction of Identity in Belten High
Linguistic Variation as Social Practice: The Linguistic Construction of Identity in Belten High. Penelope Eckert. Maiden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2000. 240 pp
Introduction Language Ideology as a field of inquiry
As Raymond Williams observed, “a definition of language is always, implicitly or explicitly, a definition of human beings in the world” (1977:21). The essays in this volume examine definitions and conceptions of language in a wide range of settings. They focus on how such defining activity organizes individuals, institutions, and their interrelations. Representations, whether explicit or implicit, that construe the intersection of language and hu…
Simultaneity and Bivalency as Strategies in Bilingualism
Influenced by the work of Bakhtin, a sociolinguistics has begun to take shape in recent years that takes multiplicity, hybridity, and simultaneity as key concepts. Such a sociolinguistics should place bi- and multilingual speakers and communities at its center, rather than in their traditional place at the margins. Within the frame of a Bakhtinian concept of simultaneity in language, this article reconsiders translingual phenomena of codeswitchin…
Between friends: Gender, peer group structure, and bilingualism in urban Catalonia
A gap exists between studies of gender and language and studies of bilingualism. The considerable attention given by studies of discourse style to gender differences in friendship patterns is not reflected in research on bilingual communities. This ethnographic case study of high school students in the Barcelona area shows that gender differences in peer group structure can affect the use of the bilingual repertoire, even when there are no appare…
Constructing languages and publics: Authority and representation
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Ideologies of Language . John E. Joseph and Talbot J. Taylor
Language Ideology
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
The Bilingual Courtroom: Court Interpreters in the Judicial Process
The Bilingual Courtroom: Court Interpreters in the Judicial Process. Susan Berk‐Seligson. Language and Legal Discourse. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. 299 pp. $19.95 (paper
Double Talk: Bilingualism and the Politics of Ethnicity in Catalonia
Joshua A. Fishman, Language and ethnicity in minority sociolinguistic perspective. Clevedon, England: Multilingual Matters, 1989. Pp. x + 717
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Changing language policies and attitudes in autonomous Catalonia
The effects of language policies on the symbolic value of the linguistic repertoire merit consideration in needed studies of the consequences of language status planning. Since achieving political autonomy within Spain in 1979, Catalonia has instituted a number of policies, particularly in education, to enhance the status and use of Catalan. A matched guise test was conducted among students in Barcelona in 1980 and again in 1987 to gauge changes …
Simultaneity and Bivalency as Strategies in Bilingualism
Influenced by the work of Bakhtin, a sociolinguistics has begun to take shape in recent years that takes multiplicity, hybridity, and simultaneity as key concepts. Such a sociolinguistics should place bi- and multilingual speakers and communities at its center, rather than in their traditional place at the margins. Within the frame of a Bakhtinian concept of simultaneity in language, this article reconsiders translingual phenomena of codeswitchin…
Language Variation and Cultural Hegemony: Toward an Integration of Sociolinguistic and Social Theory
Although the social theory behind sociolinguistics is in need of explicit formulation and critique, basic insights from the field can be of considerable value in addressing current debates concerning social reproduction. Using sociolinguistic concepts of status and solidarity and empirical evidence from Catalonia and other community studies, this paper argues that the emphasis by reproduction theorists on formal institutions such as the school is…
Sentences in the Language Prison: The rhetorical structuring of an American language policy debate
The anti-bilingual movement in the United States is a status movement, but a simple "status politics" analysis does not fully capture its dynamics. Such movements are neither homogeneous nor merely reflective of social structure, but express internal ambivalence and organize sociopolitical change through rhetorical processes. I analyze texts produced in San Francisco's 1983 campaign against bilingual ballots in order to account for the initiative…
Whydatnow: Linguistic-anthropological contributions to the explanation of sociolinguistic icons and change1
One way to renew conversation between linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics is to bring concepts of linguistic ideology to the explanation of the iconization of specific sociolinguistic variables and associated sociolinguistic change. Sociolinguists such asEckert (2000)andMilroy (2004)have made provocative efforts to incorporate linguistic-anthropological concepts into sociolinguistic explanation. What is still lacking is a full explanatio…
Changing language policies and attitudes in autonomous Catalonia
The effects of language policies on the symbolic value of the linguistic repertoire merit consideration in needed studies of the consequences of language status planning. Since achieving political autonomy within Spain in 1979, Catalonia has instituted a number of policies, particularly in education, to enhance the status and use of Catalan. A matched guise test was conducted among students in Barcelona in 1980 and again in 1987 to gauge changes …
Is there linguistic life after high school? Longitudinal changes in the bilingual repertoire in metropolitan Barcelona
Do linguistic identities formed in high school endure after adolescence? Do age-related linguistic differences represent community trends over historical time, or are they age-graded practices that change over biographical time? Catalan advocates worry that perceived Castilian dominance in adolescents' peer relations and media consumption forecasts the community's sociolinguistic future. To investigate the possibility of change in bilingual reper…
Is the Past a Foreign Country: Time, Language Origins, and the Nation in Early Modern Spain
Theorists such as Benedict Anderson have associated the development of a historicized sense of time, in contrast to an atemporal messianic time, with epochal social changes, in particular the emergence of the nation. This article discovers the two contrasting senses of time in a 17th-century controversy over the origin of the Spanish language. The competing views of the past in the Spanish debate underpinned different visions not only of language…
Between friends: Gender, peer group structure, and bilingualism in urban Catalonia
A gap exists between studies of gender and language and studies of bilingualism. The considerable attention given by studies of discourse style to gender differences in friendship patterns is not reflected in research on bilingual communities. This ethnographic case study of high school students in the Barcelona area shows that gender differences in peer group structure can affect the use of the bilingual repertoire, even when there are no appare…
Strategic bivalency in Latin and Spanish in early modern Spain
This article examines a genre of literary texts in early modern Spain written to be readable in both Latin and Spanish. These texts provide explicit evidence of a phenomenon called “strategic bivalency.” They exemplify both the ideological erasure of language boundaries by experts and the purposeful mobilization of bivalent elements that belong simultaneously to two languages in contact. It is argued that by using such bivalency strategically, sp…
Double Talk: Bilingualism and the Politics of Ethnicity in Catalonia
A formal measure of language attitudes in Barcelona: A Note From Work in Progress
Article A formal measure of language attitudes in Barcelona: a note from work in progress was published on January 1, 1984 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1984, issue 47)
Bernardo de Aldrete and the Morisco Problem: A Study in Early Modern Spanish Language Ideology
In 1606, Bernardo José de Aldrete,Sometimes spelled “Alderete;” b.1560 Malaga, d.1641 Cordoba. (See Mondéjar Cumpián 1974 for discussion of the confusion over these dates and places.) Spanish cleric and humanist antiquarian, published the first history of the Spanish language, On the origin and beginnings of the Castilian language or Romance, which is used in Spain today.Henceforth “Origin.” Translations are my own, unless otherwise noted.Aldrete…
"You Have to Be Against Bilingualism!" Sociolinguistic Theory and Controversies Over Bilingualism in Catalonia
Bilingualism” has long been a provocative term in Catalonia, where the concept is more often treated as ideology than as a description of sociolinguistic fact. I present a critical overview of controversies over bilingualism in Catalonia and focus on excavating the rationales underlying Catalanist anti-bilingual stances. This case exemplifies issues in the social contextualization, de-contextualization, and re-contextualization of theoretical con…
Branding like a State: Establishing Catalan Singularity at the Frankfurt Book Fair
The designation of Catalan culture as guest of honor at the 2007 Frankfurt Book Fair raised controversy over whether Catalan culture is expressed in one language or two. This was an opportunity for elites to promote Catalan industry internationally but also to compete over visions of Catalonia for domestic political purposes. An analysis of media texts from the controversy shows that national branding emerged as a key trope in the official defens…
Linguistic Variation as Social Practice: The Linguistic Construction of Identity in Belten High
Linguistic Variation as Social Practice: The Linguistic Construction of Identity in Belten High. Penelope Eckert. Maiden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2000. 240 pp
The Commonalities Quest: Toward a Theory of “Problem Behavior”
A formal measure of language attitudes in Barcelona: A Note From Work in Progress
Article A formal measure of language attitudes in Barcelona: a note from work in progress was published on January 1, 1984 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1984, issue 47)
Language Variation and Cultural Hegemony: Toward an Integration of Sociolinguistic and Social Theory
Although the social theory behind sociolinguistics is in need of explicit formulation and critique, basic insights from the field can be of considerable value in addressing current debates concerning social reproduction. Using sociolinguistic concepts of status and solidarity and empirical evidence from Catalonia and other community studies, this paper argues that the emphasis by reproduction theorists on formal institutions such as the school is…
Linguistic Anthropology: Telling the American Story: A Structural and Cultural Analysis of Conversational Storytelling. Livia Polanyi
Linguistic Anthropology: Discourse Markers. Deborah Schiffrin
Double Talk: Bilingualism and the Politics of Ethnicity in Catalonia
A significant movement for Catalan independence has been building since 2010 and in 2015 is bringing Catalonia to a political showdown with the Spanish state. The Catalan language has long been cast as a key sign of identity and a rallying point for Catalan nationalism. This classic anthropological study, originally published in 1989 and now available for the first time in paperback, provides essential background for understanding Catalan nationa…
Candidates for Committee on Ethics State B
Sentences in the Language Prison: The rhetorical structuring of an American language policy debate
The anti-bilingual movement in the United States is a status movement, but a simple "status politics" analysis does not fully capture its dynamics. Such movements are neither homogeneous nor merely reflective of social structure, but express internal ambivalence and organize sociopolitical change through rhetorical processes. I analyze texts produced in San Francisco's 1983 campaign against bilingual ballots in order to account for the initiative…
Joshua A. Fishman, Language and ethnicity in minority sociolinguistic perspective. Clevedon, England: Multilingual Matters, 1989. Pp. x + 717
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Changing language policies and attitudes in autonomous Catalonia
The effects of language policies on the symbolic value of the linguistic repertoire merit consideration in needed studies of the consequences of language status planning. Since achieving political autonomy within Spain in 1979, Catalonia has instituted a number of policies, particularly in education, to enhance the status and use of Catalan. A matched guise test was conducted among students in Barcelona in 1980 and again in 1987 to gauge changes …
Double Talk: Bilingualism and the Politics of Ethnicity in Catalonia
Double Talk: Bilingualism and the Politics of Ethnicity in Catalonia
Double Talk: Bilingualism and the Politics of Ethnicity in Catalonia
The Bilingual Courtroom: Court Interpreters in the Judicial Process
The Bilingual Courtroom: Court Interpreters in the Judicial Process. Susan Berk‐Seligson. Language and Legal Discourse. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. 299 pp. $19.95 (paper
Ideologies of Language . John E. Joseph and Talbot J. Taylor
Language Ideology
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
Constructing languages and publics: Authority and representation
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Between friends: Gender, peer group structure, and bilingualism in urban Catalonia
A gap exists between studies of gender and language and studies of bilingualism. The considerable attention given by studies of discourse style to gender differences in friendship patterns is not reflected in research on bilingual communities. This ethnographic case study of high school students in the Barcelona area shows that gender differences in peer group structure can affect the use of the bilingual repertoire, even when there are no appare…
Introduction Language Ideology as a field of inquiry
As Raymond Williams observed, “a definition of language is always, implicitly or explicitly, a definition of human beings in the world” (1977:21). The essays in this volume examine definitions and conceptions of language in a wide range of settings. They focus on how such defining activity organizes individuals, institutions, and their interrelations. Representations, whether explicit or implicit, that construe the intersection of language and hu…
Simultaneity and Bivalency as Strategies in Bilingualism
Influenced by the work of Bakhtin, a sociolinguistics has begun to take shape in recent years that takes multiplicity, hybridity, and simultaneity as key concepts. Such a sociolinguistics should place bi- and multilingual speakers and communities at its center, rather than in their traditional place at the margins. Within the frame of a Bakhtinian concept of simultaneity in language, this article reconsiders translingual phenomena of codeswitchin…
Linguistic Variation as Social Practice: The Linguistic Construction of Identity in Belten High
Linguistic Variation as Social Practice: The Linguistic Construction of Identity in Belten High. Penelope Eckert. Maiden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2000. 240 pp
Bernardo de Aldrete and the Morisco Problem: A Study in Early Modern Spanish Language Ideology
In 1606, Bernardo José de Aldrete,Sometimes spelled “Alderete;” b.1560 Malaga, d.1641 Cordoba. (See Mondéjar Cumpián 1974 for discussion of the confusion over these dates and places.) Spanish cleric and humanist antiquarian, published the first history of the Spanish language, On the origin and beginnings of the Castilian language or Romance, which is used in Spain today.Henceforth “Origin.” Translations are my own, unless otherwise noted.Aldrete…
Bernardo de Aldrete, humanist and laminario
La relación de Bernardo de Aldrete, humanista y filólogo, con el caso del Sacromonte fue ambigua. Su primer libro, publicado en 1606, fue una historia innovadora de la lengua española. Notable por sus métodos rigurosos de investigación lingüística, la obra mostró los orígenes latinos del español y rechazó su existencia antes de la época de los godos. La tesis de Aldrete fue atacada por impugnar la autenticidad del pergamino de la Torre Turpiana. …
Is the Past a Foreign Country: Time, Language Origins, and the Nation in Early Modern Spain
Theorists such as Benedict Anderson have associated the development of a historicized sense of time, in contrast to an atemporal messianic time, with epochal social changes, in particular the emergence of the nation. This article discovers the two contrasting senses of time in a 17th-century controversy over the origin of the Spanish language. The competing views of the past in the Spanish debate underpinned different visions not only of language…
Strategic bivalency in Latin and Spanish in early modern Spain
This article examines a genre of literary texts in early modern Spain written to be readable in both Latin and Spanish. These texts provide explicit evidence of a phenomenon called “strategic bivalency.” They exemplify both the ideological erasure of language boundaries by experts and the purposeful mobilization of bivalent elements that belong simultaneously to two languages in contact. It is argued that by using such bivalency strategically, sp…
Sociology (28 works) · Linguistics (25 works) · Philosophy (20 works) · Political science (20 works) · Law (18 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (18 works) · Politics (18 works) · Ideology (14 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (11 works)