Cécile B Vigouroux
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 190602 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Cécile B Vigouroux |
| PRENOMES | Cécile B |
| SOBRENOME | Vigouroux |
| ASSINATURA | VIGOUROUX C B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Simon Fraser University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3713-8682 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 91 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
La sociolinguistique du français dans le Sud global au prisme de la question (dé)coloniale
Dans cet article, j’examine la construction du savoir sur les variétés de français en Afrique depuis le début des années 1970. J’argumente que les travaux sur ces variétés doivent être pensés comme des fabrications idéologiques, qui construisent le français comme un objet ontologique à décrire plutôt qu’un objet politique à déconstruire. L’approche réflexive développée ici cherche à rendre visible les conditions sociohistoriques dans lesquelles s…
The Counting Machinery
This article analyzes the interconnected translation processes that led the Paris city council to conceptualize, address, and act upon “homelessness” through counting. By translation, we mean a range of semiotic processes that connect social worlds, their objects, practices, genres, and bodies of expertise. These are usually imagined as separate: For example, auditing and volunteering, science and government, charity and policing, poverty and soc…
Reading or writing is not the question
This commentary is a response to Wolfgang Klein's paper: Writing or reading, but not both, or: a proposal to reintroduce cuneiform writing using the hammer and chisel
Why this text? Why now? A response to Flores and Rosa
Why this text? Why now? These are two questions that Flores and Rosa's article prompted on my mind. The paper sounds like a ‘tune up’, if not a recalibration, of the raciolinguistic perspective (RP) that the two authors see drifting away from its original ambitions, which can be summarized as (1) to account for the co-naturalization of language and race and how the process is achieved semiotically; and (2) ultimately to expose and disrupt the inh…
Manufacturing Academic Knowledge
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Variation Rolls the Dice
Variation Rolls the Dice: A worldwide collage in honour of Salikoko S. Mufwene aims to celebrate Mufwene’s ground-breaking contribution to linguistics in the past four decades. The title also encapsulates his approach to language as both systemic and socio-cultural practices, and the role of variation in determining particular evolutionary trajectories in specific linguistic ecologies. The book therefore focuses on variation within and across lan…
Variation Rolls the Dice
Commentary
In this commentary we respond to the articles of this special issue focusing on the proposal for a sociolinguistics of diaspora. We discuss especially whether diaspora as conceptualized in the articles helps sociolinguists better understand the intersection of migration, globalization, and language. Central to our comments is the question of whether the concept of diaspora is operationalized clearly enough to do the metalinguistic job it is invok…
Tribute
Language and (in)hospitality
Based on a long-term ethnography of Sub-Saharan African migrants in Cape Town, South Africa, this article examines how language as ideology and practice shapes the rules of guesting and hosting and helps (re)configure the on-going positionalities of both the nation-state-defined-host and the foreigner-guest, making murky the distinction between the two. The key notion of hospitality developed here is examined as practices rather than as identitie…
Rethinking (un)skilled migrants
This chapter argues that skills and the migrants they are used to characterize as unskilled, low-skilled, or highly skilled should be analyzed as discursive categories embedded in a web of institutional practices and multilayered ideological formations. It examines the ways in which labor-skills classifications have been produced and used to divide and &s;objectivize&s; transnational migrants. The chapter explains the category &s;(un)skilled migr…
The discursive pathway of two centuries of raciolinguistic stereotyping
This article is about the discursive pathway of grammatical structures such asy'a bon'there's good', documenting how, in Hexagonal France, it has become an 'enregistered emblem' for indexing sub-Saharan Africans and, by extension, any African as allegedly incapable of speaking French competently. I argue that tracing pathways makes it possible to unveil the intricacy of the historicities of production, circulation, and interpretations of such rac…
Genre, heteroglossic performances, and new identity
This article analyses the ways in which stand-up comedy has been taken up by French comics of North and sub-Saharan African origins as a space of visibility and hearability. Following Bakhtin (1986), who argues that a genre reflects the social changes taking place in a society, I argue that such an appropriation should be considered as an important sociolinguistic fact that gives us privileged access to Hexagonal France's contemporary sociopoliti…
Introduction
In this special issue, we build on Bauman's seminal observation about performance, that 'the act of expression is put on display, objectified, marked out to a degree from its discursive surrounding and opened up to interpretive scrutiny and evaluation by an audience' (2000:1). More recently, scholars have moved to examining the performative role of heteroglossia, that is, the use of multiply sourced, semiotic (verbal and nonverbal) forms. In part…
Francophonie
This review unravels different facets of la Francophonie, both as an international institution dedicated to the defense of French and as a group of people who speak or are united by French. Having been highly ideological since its beginnings and its association with France's colonial history, the very idea of la Francophonie has aroused passionate debates both within and without. Although it was officially launched as a cultural community seeking…
Bridges and barriers
Double-mouthed discourse
In this article I examine multilingual displays in a Congolese Pentecostal church in Cape Town, South Africa. I focus on the simultaneous interpreting of the pastor's French sermon into English. I argue that the interpreting activity performed at church is used as a powerful interactional device to dramatize and shape the pastor's sermon. A close examination of participant roles shows that although these may appear to be predetermined by the inte…
The making of a scription
In this article I examine a collaborative transcription activity between an American linguistic anthropologist and her two French consultants. Transcription is analyzed here as a discursive process between the three co-transcribers that shapes a locally and interactionally produced document: the scription. Instead of examining the transcription as a product, the tradition in the literature, I focus on the process that produces the scription as te…
The smuggling of La Francophonie
Focusing on Black Francophone migrants in Cape Town, it is argued that a locally based Francophone identity has emerged in South Africa that questions the institutional discourse of La Francophonie as the organization of French-speaking states. The new identity has little to do with the organization's ideology of a transnational community of people united by a common language and culture. This is shown by deconstructing the category of passeurs d…
Anna De Fina, Identity in narrative
Anna De Fina, Identity in narrative: A study of immigrant discourse. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2003. Pp. xiv, 251. Hb $102.00.Narrative has now won its spurs within the social sciences, as evidenced by the number of publications, by the diversity of disciplinary approaches (e.g., linguistic, sociological, and psychological), and by the wide range of theoretical frameworks applied to its study. Similar remarks apply to studies of i…
Trans-scription as a social activity
Of all the tasks performed by linguists, transcription is certainly one of the most closely scrutinized activities on the data construction chain. Paradoxically it is the least well understood. Despite their diversity, all the approaches to transcription have in common the fact of examining it from the point of view of its outcome: the scription. My point of departure is different: in order to deconstruct scription, I move upstream and investigat…
Changer de vie, changer de langues Paroles de migrants entre le Mali et Marseille Cécile VAN DEN Avenne L’Harmattan (2004)
Cet article interroge, à partir d’un terrain réalisé en Turquie, l'expression «langue kurde» qui désigne plusieurs variétés. La Turquie a, jusqu'à une date récente, nié l'existence de la langue kurde et produit des représentations particulières la turquifiant. Très proches mais de familles différentes, on trouve des langues dont les locuteurs se définissent pourtant souvent comme Kurdes. Définitions linguistique et sociale de ce qu'est la « langu…
There are no Whites in Africa
Rencontre(s) d’un autre type
En attendant de numériser les fichiers originaux, les Ellug mettent à votre disposition un fac-similé de cet article (pdf) à télécharger en cliquant sur le lien ci-dessus
The discursive pathway of two centuries of raciolinguistic stereotyping
This article is about the discursive pathway of grammatical structures such asy'a bon'there's good', documenting how, in Hexagonal France, it has become an 'enregistered emblem' for indexing sub-Saharan Africans and, by extension, any African as allegedly incapable of speaking French competently. I argue that tracing pathways makes it possible to unveil the intricacy of the historicities of production, circulation, and interpretations of such rac…
Trans-scription as a social activity
Of all the tasks performed by linguists, transcription is certainly one of the most closely scrutinized activities on the data construction chain. Paradoxically it is the least well understood. Despite their diversity, all the approaches to transcription have in common the fact of examining it from the point of view of its outcome: the scription. My point of departure is different: in order to deconstruct scription, I move upstream and investigat…
Introduction
In this special issue, we build on Bauman's seminal observation about performance, that 'the act of expression is put on display, objectified, marked out to a degree from its discursive surrounding and opened up to interpretive scrutiny and evaluation by an audience' (2000:1). More recently, scholars have moved to examining the performative role of heteroglossia, that is, the use of multiply sourced, semiotic (verbal and nonverbal) forms. In part…
Double-mouthed discourse
In this article I examine multilingual displays in a Congolese Pentecostal church in Cape Town, South Africa. I focus on the simultaneous interpreting of the pastor's French sermon into English. I argue that the interpreting activity performed at church is used as a powerful interactional device to dramatize and shape the pastor's sermon. A close examination of participant roles shows that although these may appear to be predetermined by the inte…
Genre, heteroglossic performances, and new identity
This article analyses the ways in which stand-up comedy has been taken up by French comics of North and sub-Saharan African origins as a space of visibility and hearability. Following Bakhtin (1986), who argues that a genre reflects the social changes taking place in a society, I argue that such an appropriation should be considered as an important sociolinguistic fact that gives us privileged access to Hexagonal France's contemporary sociopoliti…
Language and (in)hospitality
Based on a long-term ethnography of Sub-Saharan African migrants in Cape Town, South Africa, this article examines how language as ideology and practice shapes the rules of guesting and hosting and helps (re)configure the on-going positionalities of both the nation-state-defined-host and the foreigner-guest, making murky the distinction between the two. The key notion of hospitality developed here is examined as practices rather than as identitie…
There are no Whites in Africa
The smuggling of La Francophonie
Focusing on Black Francophone migrants in Cape Town, it is argued that a locally based Francophone identity has emerged in South Africa that questions the institutional discourse of La Francophonie as the organization of French-speaking states. The new identity has little to do with the organization's ideology of a transnational community of people united by a common language and culture. This is shown by deconstructing the category of passeurs d…
Manufacturing Academic Knowledge
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Commentary
In this commentary we respond to the articles of this special issue focusing on the proposal for a sociolinguistics of diaspora. We discuss especially whether diaspora as conceptualized in the articles helps sociolinguists better understand the intersection of migration, globalization, and language. Central to our comments is the question of whether the concept of diaspora is operationalized clearly enough to do the metalinguistic job it is invok…
Rencontre(s) d’un autre type
En attendant de numériser les fichiers originaux, les Ellug mettent à votre disposition un fac-similé de cet article (pdf) à télécharger en cliquant sur le lien ci-dessus
Anna De Fina, Identity in narrative
Anna De Fina, Identity in narrative: A study of immigrant discourse. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2003. Pp. xiv, 251. Hb $102.00.Narrative has now won its spurs within the social sciences, as evidenced by the number of publications, by the diversity of disciplinary approaches (e.g., linguistic, sociological, and psychological), and by the wide range of theoretical frameworks applied to its study. Similar remarks apply to studies of i…
Rencontre(s) d’un autre type
En attendant de numériser les fichiers originaux, les Ellug mettent à votre disposition un fac-similé de cet article (pdf) à télécharger en cliquant sur le lien ci-dessus
There are no Whites in Africa
Changer de vie, changer de langues Paroles de migrants entre le Mali et Marseille Cécile VAN DEN Avenne L’Harmattan (2004)
Cet article interroge, à partir d’un terrain réalisé en Turquie, l'expression «langue kurde» qui désigne plusieurs variétés. La Turquie a, jusqu'à une date récente, nié l'existence de la langue kurde et produit des représentations particulières la turquifiant. Très proches mais de familles différentes, on trouve des langues dont les locuteurs se définissent pourtant souvent comme Kurdes. Définitions linguistique et sociale de ce qu'est la « langu…
Anna De Fina, Identity in narrative
Anna De Fina, Identity in narrative: A study of immigrant discourse. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2003. Pp. xiv, 251. Hb $102.00.Narrative has now won its spurs within the social sciences, as evidenced by the number of publications, by the diversity of disciplinary approaches (e.g., linguistic, sociological, and psychological), and by the wide range of theoretical frameworks applied to its study. Similar remarks apply to studies of i…
Trans-scription as a social activity
Of all the tasks performed by linguists, transcription is certainly one of the most closely scrutinized activities on the data construction chain. Paradoxically it is the least well understood. Despite their diversity, all the approaches to transcription have in common the fact of examining it from the point of view of its outcome: the scription. My point of departure is different: in order to deconstruct scription, I move upstream and investigat…
The smuggling of La Francophonie
Focusing on Black Francophone migrants in Cape Town, it is argued that a locally based Francophone identity has emerged in South Africa that questions the institutional discourse of La Francophonie as the organization of French-speaking states. The new identity has little to do with the organization's ideology of a transnational community of people united by a common language and culture. This is shown by deconstructing the category of passeurs d…
The making of a scription
In this article I examine a collaborative transcription activity between an American linguistic anthropologist and her two French consultants. Transcription is analyzed here as a discursive process between the three co-transcribers that shapes a locally and interactionally produced document: the scription. Instead of examining the transcription as a product, the tradition in the literature, I focus on the process that produces the scription as te…
Double-mouthed discourse
In this article I examine multilingual displays in a Congolese Pentecostal church in Cape Town, South Africa. I focus on the simultaneous interpreting of the pastor's French sermon into English. I argue that the interpreting activity performed at church is used as a powerful interactional device to dramatize and shape the pastor's sermon. A close examination of participant roles shows that although these may appear to be predetermined by the inte…
Bridges and barriers
Francophonie
This review unravels different facets of la Francophonie, both as an international institution dedicated to the defense of French and as a group of people who speak or are united by French. Having been highly ideological since its beginnings and its association with France's colonial history, the very idea of la Francophonie has aroused passionate debates both within and without. Although it was officially launched as a cultural community seeking…
Genre, heteroglossic performances, and new identity
This article analyses the ways in which stand-up comedy has been taken up by French comics of North and sub-Saharan African origins as a space of visibility and hearability. Following Bakhtin (1986), who argues that a genre reflects the social changes taking place in a society, I argue that such an appropriation should be considered as an important sociolinguistic fact that gives us privileged access to Hexagonal France's contemporary sociopoliti…
Introduction
In this special issue, we build on Bauman's seminal observation about performance, that 'the act of expression is put on display, objectified, marked out to a degree from its discursive surrounding and opened up to interpretive scrutiny and evaluation by an audience' (2000:1). More recently, scholars have moved to examining the performative role of heteroglossia, that is, the use of multiply sourced, semiotic (verbal and nonverbal) forms. In part…
Rethinking (un)skilled migrants
This chapter argues that skills and the migrants they are used to characterize as unskilled, low-skilled, or highly skilled should be analyzed as discursive categories embedded in a web of institutional practices and multilayered ideological formations. It examines the ways in which labor-skills classifications have been produced and used to divide and &s;objectivize&s; transnational migrants. The chapter explains the category &s;(un)skilled migr…
The discursive pathway of two centuries of raciolinguistic stereotyping
This article is about the discursive pathway of grammatical structures such asy'a bon'there's good', documenting how, in Hexagonal France, it has become an 'enregistered emblem' for indexing sub-Saharan Africans and, by extension, any African as allegedly incapable of speaking French competently. I argue that tracing pathways makes it possible to unveil the intricacy of the historicities of production, circulation, and interpretations of such rac…
Language and (in)hospitality
Based on a long-term ethnography of Sub-Saharan African migrants in Cape Town, South Africa, this article examines how language as ideology and practice shapes the rules of guesting and hosting and helps (re)configure the on-going positionalities of both the nation-state-defined-host and the foreigner-guest, making murky the distinction between the two. The key notion of hospitality developed here is examined as practices rather than as identitie…
Variation Rolls the Dice
Variation Rolls the Dice: A worldwide collage in honour of Salikoko S. Mufwene aims to celebrate Mufwene’s ground-breaking contribution to linguistics in the past four decades. The title also encapsulates his approach to language as both systemic and socio-cultural practices, and the role of variation in determining particular evolutionary trajectories in specific linguistic ecologies. The book therefore focuses on variation within and across lan…
Variation Rolls the Dice
Commentary
In this commentary we respond to the articles of this special issue focusing on the proposal for a sociolinguistics of diaspora. We discuss especially whether diaspora as conceptualized in the articles helps sociolinguists better understand the intersection of migration, globalization, and language. Central to our comments is the question of whether the concept of diaspora is operationalized clearly enough to do the metalinguistic job it is invok…
Tribute
Why this text? Why now? A response to Flores and Rosa
Why this text? Why now? These are two questions that Flores and Rosa's article prompted on my mind. The paper sounds like a ‘tune up’, if not a recalibration, of the raciolinguistic perspective (RP) that the two authors see drifting away from its original ambitions, which can be summarized as (1) to account for the co-naturalization of language and race and how the process is achieved semiotically; and (2) ultimately to expose and disrupt the inh…
Manufacturing Academic Knowledge
Preview this online first article: Manufacturing Academic Knowledge, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/10.1075/lcs.00045.edi/lcs.00045.edi-1.gif
Reading or writing is not the question
This commentary is a response to Wolfgang Klein's paper: Writing or reading, but not both, or: a proposal to reintroduce cuneiform writing using the hammer and chisel
The Counting Machinery
This article analyzes the interconnected translation processes that led the Paris city council to conceptualize, address, and act upon “homelessness” through counting. By translation, we mean a range of semiotic processes that connect social worlds, their objects, practices, genres, and bodies of expertise. These are usually imagined as separate: For example, auditing and volunteering, science and government, charity and policing, poverty and soc…
La sociolinguistique du français dans le Sud global au prisme de la question (dé)coloniale
Dans cet article, j’examine la construction du savoir sur les variétés de français en Afrique depuis le début des années 1970. J’argumente que les travaux sur ces variétés doivent être pensés comme des fabrications idéologiques, qui construisent le français comme un objet ontologique à décrire plutôt qu’un objet politique à déconstruire. L’approche réflexive développée ici cherche à rendre visible les conditions sociohistoriques dans lesquelles s…
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