The second annual Corsican spelling contest

Orthography and Ideology

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2467485
AutoresAlexandra Jaffe (University of Southern Mississippi, autor correspondente)
Ano1996
Volume23
Fascículo4
Páginas816-835
Data de publicação1996-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Ethnologist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/ae.1996.23.4.02a00080
OpenAlexW2122077341
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas36
Referências citadas41

In this article, I interpret a broadcast Corsican spelling contest as evidence of both resistance and accommodation to dominant models of language as an autonomous, authoritative code. First, the broadcast illustrates that efforts to promote the minority language by focusing on written standards conflict with everyday linguistic practices and cultural values and can create new forms of cultural alienation. Second, broadcast participants powerfully assert the countervalues of intimacy and egalitarianism associated with Corsican. This resistance, however, is only partial in that it does not escape the diglossic compartmentalization of domains of linguistic use and value; it therefore fails to take into account the mixed nature of both Corsican identity and everyday language practices. [orthography, Corsica, language ideology, minoritized languages, language planning

CONTEST · Corsican · Ideology · Linguistics · Orthography · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Law · Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy