Jürgen Jaspers
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 212710 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jürgen Jaspers |
| PRENOMES | Jürgen |
| SOBRENOME | Jaspers |
| ASSINATURA | JASPERS J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Université Libre de Bruxelles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5823-0576 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 200 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
On close reading and slow writing [Multilingua]
In an academic world in the throes of the audit culture, there is mileage in proposals that call for a reduction of research output. But while such a reduction is defensible on principle, and, indeed, a crucial measure to go against excessive output requirements, we are not sure it guarantees superior scholarship. In this commentary, we will suggest that calls for academic degrowth overlook the room for manoeuvre academics already have or should …
Hyperstandardisation in Flanders
Our intention in this article is to document and analyse an exceptional period in Flemish linguistic history that has not received a lot of attention thusfar, viz., the 1950s through the 1980s. We will argue that these decades mark a period best described as an era of hyperstandardisation, as they involved a large-scale, propagandistic, scientifically supported and highly mediatised linguistic standardisation campaign that has thoroughly ideologi…
Linguistic dilemmas and chronic ambivalence in the classroom
This special issue brings together papers that discuss how teachers deliberate competing institutional, pedagogical and language ideological imperatives in the multilingual classroom. It does so because research on language-in-education policy often singles out teachers who resist and transform monolingual policies, or those who ignore pupils’ multilingual resources. Such accounts usefully highlight the possibility of change or the need for inter…
Soft power
Dutch-medium schools in Brussels traditionally cater to a Dutch-speaking minority, but they have recently seen a massive influx of pupils with a limited competence in Dutch. In order to face the resulting pedagogical and ideological challenges, many of these schools have intensified their efforts to remain Dutch enclaves in a predominantly Francophone city. In this article we discuss one Dutch-medium secondary school that positions itself as fair…
Sujet toxique ou d'actualité ? La diglossie aujourd'hui
L'auteur commence par souligner qu'une partie de la sociolinguistique contemporaine cherche à instaurer une rupture avec les étapes antérieures de la recherche dans le champ, et il justifie cette démarcation par la nécessité d'un changement de paradigme pour penser les liens entre langue et société dans le monde actuel. Cette rupture implique d'inventer de nouveaux termes pour signifier ce changement, mais l'entreprise comporte des risques. Il en…
We don’t need another Afrikaans’. Adequation and distinction in South-African and Flemish language policies
It has long been recognised that the similarity or difference between ways of speaking and their possible institutionalisation as ‘languages’ is an ideological matter, a matter of social opinions, rather than one of objective systemic relatedness. This paper emphasises that such language ideologies in any society are always to some extent competitive, that such lack of consensus is not a temporary stage in between moments of shared opinion but a …
Authority and morality in advocating heteroglossia
In this article I address the fact that influential strands in socio- and applied linguistics advocate heteroglossic policies in education and other monolingually organised domains without extending this heteroglossia to public debate about language policy. Often this occurs by presenting linguistic diversity to relevant stakeholders as natural and real, or as the only option on account of its proven effectiveness. I argue that this strategy remo…
The transformative limits of translanguaging
Sociolinguistics in a languagised world
The idea that there exist separate, enumerable languages has in the last decades been widely criticised, and it has led scholars to propose various new terms and concepts such as ‘polylingualism’, ‘metrolingualism’, and ‘translanguaging’, among others. As these terms are attracting considerable acclaim within the academy, this paper argues it is time to reflect on their occurrence, provenance and pertinence for future research and theorisation. W…
Crisis thinking, sensuous reflexivity, and solving real issues
write in Voices of Modernity, their grand overview of the birth and maturation of modernity, is to "posi[t] a category of tradition, mak[e] it seem autonomous, and then creating new hybrids that contain tradition by virtue of being defined in opposition to it " (2003: 307). Rather than the summary term for an array of historical changes (the onset of capitalism, secularisation, industrialism, and so on), these authors understand modernity as a di…
Beware of the weeds
Research into linguistic purism often reflects a critical, if not contemptuous attitude towards its subject of inquiry. The reasons for this are purists' prescriptivist stance, as well as their frequent association with ethno-linguistic nationalism, an ideology in moral disrepute. We argue that this approach of purism produces blind spots. Following Pratt's suggestion, we reconsider linguistic purism in this article as the effect of a utopian dis…
(Dis)fluency
Sociolinguists are deeply politically committed to (dis)fluency. They have generally seen it as their task to revise popular wisdom on the presumed disfluency of nonstandard, accented, or multilingual speakers and to demonstrate regularity and competence where deficit is presumed. I argue that this revision has its merits but is not immune to reconsideration for its naturalization of cultural ideas that value fluency and its promise of modernizat…
Interactional sociolinguistics and discourse analysis
What is interactional sociolinguistics?Interactional sociolinguistics (IS) studies the language use of people in face-to-face interaction.It is a theoretical and methodological perspective on language use with eclectic roots in a wide variety of disciplines such as dialectology, ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, pragmatics, linguistic anthropology, microethnography and sociology.Basically IS starts from the finding that, when people talk, …
Ceci n'est pas une Tussentaal
This paper argues that the use of mixed Dutch, the speech style that Flemish linguists have come to name tussentaal (literally ‘interlanguage’) and which is made up of dialect and standard features, can index meanings conventionally associated with dialect and Standard Dutch, depending on the linguistic ecology in which it occurs. Consequently, and in contrast with current explanations that attribute context-independent social meaning to tussenta…
Modelling linguistic diversity at school
From Unwanted to So-Called Expertise
This article discusses how expertise over language is reconfigured in mainstream media. Based on two different cases, it describes how journalists’ and sociolinguists’ conflicting interests can lead to unwanted attributions of expertise or to the staging of sociolinguists as so-called experts, useful as a foil for redefining what is viewed as more reasonable knowledge over language. Rather than proposing that such altercations illustrate the plig…
Stylisations as teacher practice
Studies on stylised language use have tended to focus on the creative exploitation of linguistic heteroglossia among urban multi-ethnic youth. This article argues that there are good reasons for exploring how such practices can also be initiated by norm-enforcing white adults such as teachers. I report on linguistic ethnographic fieldwork in one mixed-ethnicity class at a Brussels Dutch-medium school and describe how one teacher often produced th…
Away with linguists! Normativity, inequality and metascientific reflexivity in sociolinguistic fieldwork
This paper addresses the fact that in spite of the descriptive and wellintentioned ambitions of much sociolinguistic-ethnographic research, members of studied groups often continue to interpret such research as a largely vertically organized socio-political activity that communicates a prescriptive social and linguistic normativity the researcher is inevitably taken to embody. We argue that while many researchers agree that sociolinguistic fieldw…
Away with linguists! Normativity, inequality and metascientific reflexivity in sociolinguistic fieldwork
This paper addresses the fact that in spite of the descriptive and well-intentioned ambitions of much sociolinguistic-ethnographic research, members of studied groups often continue to interpret such research as a largely vertically organized socio-political activity that communicates a prescriptive social and linguistic normativity the researcher is inevitably taken to embody. We argue that while many researchers agree that sociolinguistic field…
Managing globalization at school
Strange bedfellows
Teenagers often appropriate dialect features they find attractive. This paper argues that unattractive dialect features can also become a target for teenage constructions of linguistic style. Based on an ethnographic case study at a multi-ethnic school in Antwerp, Belgium, it is shown that Antwerp dialect for non-white students conjured up angry white and/or racist voices, and that it was frequently stylised as a way of speaking associated with o…
Talking like a 'zerolingual
Society and language use
Multilingual structures and agencies
Problematizing ethnolects
This article argues that naming linguistic practices “ethnolectal” is a praxis with ideological consequences that sociolinguists fail sufficiently to address. It suggests that a transformation of linguistic differences into ethnolect-codes quickly falls prey to homogenizing groups and their language use, obscures speakers' styling practices as well as the relations between “ethnolect” and standard language speakers. Furthermore, “ethnolect” as an…
The transformative limits of translanguaging
Talking like a 'zerolingual
Linguistic sabotage in a context of monolingualism and standardization
Strange bedfellows
Teenagers often appropriate dialect features they find attractive. This paper argues that unattractive dialect features can also become a target for teenage constructions of linguistic style. Based on an ethnographic case study at a multi-ethnic school in Antwerp, Belgium, it is shown that Antwerp dialect for non-white students conjured up angry white and/or racist voices, and that it was frequently stylised as a way of speaking associated with o…
Modelling linguistic diversity at school
Stylisations as teacher practice
Studies on stylised language use have tended to focus on the creative exploitation of linguistic heteroglossia among urban multi-ethnic youth. This article argues that there are good reasons for exploring how such practices can also be initiated by norm-enforcing white adults such as teachers. I report on linguistic ethnographic fieldwork in one mixed-ethnicity class at a Brussels Dutch-medium school and describe how one teacher often produced th…
Multilingual structures and agencies
Linguistic dilemmas and chronic ambivalence in the classroom
This special issue brings together papers that discuss how teachers deliberate competing institutional, pedagogical and language ideological imperatives in the multilingual classroom. It does so because research on language-in-education policy often singles out teachers who resist and transform monolingual policies, or those who ignore pupils’ multilingual resources. Such accounts usefully highlight the possibility of change or the need for inter…
Soft power
Dutch-medium schools in Brussels traditionally cater to a Dutch-speaking minority, but they have recently seen a massive influx of pupils with a limited competence in Dutch. In order to face the resulting pedagogical and ideological challenges, many of these schools have intensified their efforts to remain Dutch enclaves in a predominantly Francophone city. In this article we discuss one Dutch-medium secondary school that positions itself as fair…
(Dis)fluency
Sociolinguists are deeply politically committed to (dis)fluency. They have generally seen it as their task to revise popular wisdom on the presumed disfluency of nonstandard, accented, or multilingual speakers and to demonstrate regularity and competence where deficit is presumed. I argue that this revision has its merits but is not immune to reconsideration for its naturalization of cultural ideas that value fluency and its promise of modernizat…
Beware of the weeds
Research into linguistic purism often reflects a critical, if not contemptuous attitude towards its subject of inquiry. The reasons for this are purists' prescriptivist stance, as well as their frequent association with ethno-linguistic nationalism, an ideology in moral disrepute. We argue that this approach of purism produces blind spots. Following Pratt's suggestion, we reconsider linguistic purism in this article as the effect of a utopian dis…
From Unwanted to So-Called Expertise
This article discusses how expertise over language is reconfigured in mainstream media. Based on two different cases, it describes how journalists’ and sociolinguists’ conflicting interests can lead to unwanted attributions of expertise or to the staging of sociolinguists as so-called experts, useful as a foil for redefining what is viewed as more reasonable knowledge over language. Rather than proposing that such altercations illustrate the plig…
Sujet toxique ou d'actualité ? La diglossie aujourd'hui
L'auteur commence par souligner qu'une partie de la sociolinguistique contemporaine cherche à instaurer une rupture avec les étapes antérieures de la recherche dans le champ, et il justifie cette démarcation par la nécessité d'un changement de paradigme pour penser les liens entre langue et société dans le monde actuel. Cette rupture implique d'inventer de nouveaux termes pour signifier ce changement, mais l'entreprise comporte des risques. Il en…
Away with linguists! Normativity, inequality and metascientific reflexivity in sociolinguistic fieldwork
This paper addresses the fact that in spite of the descriptive and wellintentioned ambitions of much sociolinguistic-ethnographic research, members of studied groups often continue to interpret such research as a largely vertically organized socio-political activity that communicates a prescriptive social and linguistic normativity the researcher is inevitably taken to embody. We argue that while many researchers agree that sociolinguistic fieldw…
Away with linguists! Normativity, inequality and metascientific reflexivity in sociolinguistic fieldwork
This paper addresses the fact that in spite of the descriptive and well-intentioned ambitions of much sociolinguistic-ethnographic research, members of studied groups often continue to interpret such research as a largely vertically organized socio-political activity that communicates a prescriptive social and linguistic normativity the researcher is inevitably taken to embody. We argue that while many researchers agree that sociolinguistic field…
Linguistic sabotage in a context of monolingualism and standardization
Verklaringen van substandaardisering
Problematizing ethnolects
This article argues that naming linguistic practices “ethnolectal” is a praxis with ideological consequences that sociolinguists fail sufficiently to address. It suggests that a transformation of linguistic differences into ethnolect-codes quickly falls prey to homogenizing groups and their language use, obscures speakers' styling practices as well as the relations between “ethnolect” and standard language speakers. Furthermore, “ethnolect” as an…
Society and language use
Multilingual structures and agencies
Managing globalization at school
Strange bedfellows
Teenagers often appropriate dialect features they find attractive. This paper argues that unattractive dialect features can also become a target for teenage constructions of linguistic style. Based on an ethnographic case study at a multi-ethnic school in Antwerp, Belgium, it is shown that Antwerp dialect for non-white students conjured up angry white and/or racist voices, and that it was frequently stylised as a way of speaking associated with o…
Talking like a 'zerolingual
Away with linguists! Normativity, inequality and metascientific reflexivity in sociolinguistic fieldwork
This paper addresses the fact that in spite of the descriptive and wellintentioned ambitions of much sociolinguistic-ethnographic research, members of studied groups often continue to interpret such research as a largely vertically organized socio-political activity that communicates a prescriptive social and linguistic normativity the researcher is inevitably taken to embody. We argue that while many researchers agree that sociolinguistic fieldw…
Away with linguists! Normativity, inequality and metascientific reflexivity in sociolinguistic fieldwork
This paper addresses the fact that in spite of the descriptive and well-intentioned ambitions of much sociolinguistic-ethnographic research, members of studied groups often continue to interpret such research as a largely vertically organized socio-political activity that communicates a prescriptive social and linguistic normativity the researcher is inevitably taken to embody. We argue that while many researchers agree that sociolinguistic field…
Modelling linguistic diversity at school
From Unwanted to So-Called Expertise
This article discusses how expertise over language is reconfigured in mainstream media. Based on two different cases, it describes how journalists’ and sociolinguists’ conflicting interests can lead to unwanted attributions of expertise or to the staging of sociolinguists as so-called experts, useful as a foil for redefining what is viewed as more reasonable knowledge over language. Rather than proposing that such altercations illustrate the plig…
Stylisations as teacher practice
Studies on stylised language use have tended to focus on the creative exploitation of linguistic heteroglossia among urban multi-ethnic youth. This article argues that there are good reasons for exploring how such practices can also be initiated by norm-enforcing white adults such as teachers. I report on linguistic ethnographic fieldwork in one mixed-ethnicity class at a Brussels Dutch-medium school and describe how one teacher often produced th…
Interactional sociolinguistics and discourse analysis
What is interactional sociolinguistics?Interactional sociolinguistics (IS) studies the language use of people in face-to-face interaction.It is a theoretical and methodological perspective on language use with eclectic roots in a wide variety of disciplines such as dialectology, ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, pragmatics, linguistic anthropology, microethnography and sociology.Basically IS starts from the finding that, when people talk, …
Ceci n'est pas une Tussentaal
This paper argues that the use of mixed Dutch, the speech style that Flemish linguists have come to name tussentaal (literally ‘interlanguage’) and which is made up of dialect and standard features, can index meanings conventionally associated with dialect and Standard Dutch, depending on the linguistic ecology in which it occurs. Consequently, and in contrast with current explanations that attribute context-independent social meaning to tussenta…
Sociolinguistics in a languagised world
The idea that there exist separate, enumerable languages has in the last decades been widely criticised, and it has led scholars to propose various new terms and concepts such as ‘polylingualism’, ‘metrolingualism’, and ‘translanguaging’, among others. As these terms are attracting considerable acclaim within the academy, this paper argues it is time to reflect on their occurrence, provenance and pertinence for future research and theorisation. W…
Crisis thinking, sensuous reflexivity, and solving real issues
write in Voices of Modernity, their grand overview of the birth and maturation of modernity, is to "posi[t] a category of tradition, mak[e] it seem autonomous, and then creating new hybrids that contain tradition by virtue of being defined in opposition to it " (2003: 307). Rather than the summary term for an array of historical changes (the onset of capitalism, secularisation, industrialism, and so on), these authors understand modernity as a di…
Beware of the weeds
Research into linguistic purism often reflects a critical, if not contemptuous attitude towards its subject of inquiry. The reasons for this are purists' prescriptivist stance, as well as their frequent association with ethno-linguistic nationalism, an ideology in moral disrepute. We argue that this approach of purism produces blind spots. Following Pratt's suggestion, we reconsider linguistic purism in this article as the effect of a utopian dis…
(Dis)fluency
Sociolinguists are deeply politically committed to (dis)fluency. They have generally seen it as their task to revise popular wisdom on the presumed disfluency of nonstandard, accented, or multilingual speakers and to demonstrate regularity and competence where deficit is presumed. I argue that this revision has its merits but is not immune to reconsideration for its naturalization of cultural ideas that value fluency and its promise of modernizat…
The transformative limits of translanguaging
We don’t need another Afrikaans’. Adequation and distinction in South-African and Flemish language policies
It has long been recognised that the similarity or difference between ways of speaking and their possible institutionalisation as ‘languages’ is an ideological matter, a matter of social opinions, rather than one of objective systemic relatedness. This paper emphasises that such language ideologies in any society are always to some extent competitive, that such lack of consensus is not a temporary stage in between moments of shared opinion but a …
Authority and morality in advocating heteroglossia
In this article I address the fact that influential strands in socio- and applied linguistics advocate heteroglossic policies in education and other monolingually organised domains without extending this heteroglossia to public debate about language policy. Often this occurs by presenting linguistic diversity to relevant stakeholders as natural and real, or as the only option on account of its proven effectiveness. I argue that this strategy remo…
Sujet toxique ou d'actualité ? La diglossie aujourd'hui
L'auteur commence par souligner qu'une partie de la sociolinguistique contemporaine cherche à instaurer une rupture avec les étapes antérieures de la recherche dans le champ, et il justifie cette démarcation par la nécessité d'un changement de paradigme pour penser les liens entre langue et société dans le monde actuel. Cette rupture implique d'inventer de nouveaux termes pour signifier ce changement, mais l'entreprise comporte des risques. Il en…
Hyperstandardisation in Flanders
Our intention in this article is to document and analyse an exceptional period in Flemish linguistic history that has not received a lot of attention thusfar, viz., the 1950s through the 1980s. We will argue that these decades mark a period best described as an era of hyperstandardisation, as they involved a large-scale, propagandistic, scientifically supported and highly mediatised linguistic standardisation campaign that has thoroughly ideologi…
Linguistic dilemmas and chronic ambivalence in the classroom
This special issue brings together papers that discuss how teachers deliberate competing institutional, pedagogical and language ideological imperatives in the multilingual classroom. It does so because research on language-in-education policy often singles out teachers who resist and transform monolingual policies, or those who ignore pupils’ multilingual resources. Such accounts usefully highlight the possibility of change or the need for inter…
Sociology (23 obras) · Linguistics (22 obras) · Multilingual Education and Policy (20 obras) · Philosophy (16 obras) · Epistemology (13 obras) · Political science (13 obras) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (10 obras) · Psychology (10 obras) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (8 obras) · Philosophy (8 obras)