Language choice, social institutions, and symbolic domination
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2885779 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Monica Heller (0000-0002-4888-3450, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 373-405 |
| Publication date | 1995-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language in Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0047404500018807 |
| OpenAlex | W2114731180 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 95 |
| References cited | 24 |
The study of language choice and code-switching can illuminate the ways in which, through language, social institutions with ethnolinguistically diverse staff and clients exercise symbolic domination. Using the example of French-language minority education in Ontario (Canada), this article examines the ways in which ethnic and institutional relations of power overlap or crosscut, forming constraints which have paradoxical effects. In an analysis of two classrooms, it is shown how an ideology of institutional monolingualism is supported or undermined by program structure, curriculum content, and the social organization of turn-taking, and how individuals use language choices and code-switching to collaborate with or resist these arrangements. The effect of these processes is to contain paradoxes and to produce new relations of power within the school. (Symbolic domination, choice of language, code-switching, French/English language contact, social institutions, Canada
Code (set theory) · Code-switching · Curriculum · Ethnic group · Ideology · Linguistics · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Programming language · Sociology · Symbolic power · The Symbolic · Anthropology · Computer Science · Law · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Second Language Learning and Teaching
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Crosswords
Reproduction in education, society, and culture
Sharing time
Language choice, social institutions, and symbolic domination
Language and Class in Minority Education
Moving to Dialogue
| Unique citing works | 95 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,06 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2026 (32) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 87 |