Between ideologies and realities
Multilingual competence in a languagised world
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21196643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Katharina Ruuska (0000-0002-0857-432X, University of Jyväskylä, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 353-374 |
| Publication date | 2016-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Applied Linguistics Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1868-6303 • E-ISSN: 1868-6311 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/applirev-2016-0015 |
| OpenAlex | W2508736165 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 20 |
Recent developments in sociolinguistics and applied linguistics have put emphasis on the contrast between ideologies of distinct ‘languages’ and the multifaceted reality of linguistic practices. This article argues that recent usage-based reconceptualisations of the notions of competence and repertoire can help paint a more complex picture of the relationship between monolingual ‘ideologies’ and diverse linguistic ‘realities’. Drawing on data from interviews with highly proficient adult speakers of Finnish as a second language, I explore some aspects of how speakers’ competence can be understood as shaped by language use, and what role linguistic ideologies, social expectations and speakers’ environments play in this process. I conclude that, in a languagised world, the ability to keep ‘languages’ apart and to successfully display monolingual competence can be seen as part of multilingual speakers’ competence. In this way, a usage-based perspective on competence enables us to treat ‘languages’ as ideological constructs, while at the same time acknowledging their ‘real’ effects on speakers’ competence and language use
Applied linguistics · Art · Ideology · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Repertoire · Sociolinguistics · Sociology · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Psychology · Second Language Learning and Teaching · Social Psychology
Models of the Interaction of Language and Social Life
The poverty-of-the-stimulus argument and multicompetence
Reconceptualizing Multicompetence as a Theory of Language Knowledge
Translanguaging in the classroom
Tell me who your friends are and I might be able to tell you what language(s) you speak
“In the world of the tradition, I was unimagined”
The plurilingual tradition and the English language in South Asia
Ideologies and norms in language and education policies in Europe and their relationship with everyday language behaviours
Disinventing and (Re)Constituting Languages
Going beyond the Native Speaker in Language Teaching
The Linguistic Repertoire Revisited
Evidence for Multicompetence
Spaces of multilingualism
Language and the nation-state
Globalization, the new economy, and the commodification of language and identity
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2022 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |