We did what we thought was best for our children
A nexus analysis of language shift in a Kven community
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4178007 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pia Lane (0000-0002-3127-8051, University of Oslo, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 2010 |
| Issue | 202 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of the Sociology of Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0165-2516 • E-ISSN: 1613-3668 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ijsl.2010.014 |
| OpenAlex | W2034341407 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 34 |
| References cited | 1 |
The loss of intergenerational language transmission can be seen, in part, as a choice parents make, but in reality they do not always have a choice. Their actions are influenced by large-scale social factors such as language policies and attitudes toward minority languages. Issues related to these factors are addressed by an analysis of language shift in Bugønes, a Kven community in Northern Norway. Data come from recordings of conversations and sociolinguistic interviews addressing language choice. Fifteen hours were recorded and transcribed. In order to analyze language shift a theoretical and methodological framework which allows for a historical perspective is essential since people, objects, mediational means, and discourses are seen as having a history and projecting a future (de Saint Georges, From anticipation to performance: Sites of engagement as performance, Routledge, 2005). The framework used here is nexus analysis, which emphasizes that discourses and individual social actors have a history and therefore cannot be analyzed without reference to the past (Scollon and Scollon, Nexus analysis: Discourse and the emerging Internet, Routledge, 2004). Findings about language shift in Bugønes illustrate how large-scale discourses such as the language policies become internalized and later materialized in action through language choice
Epistemology · Language shift · Linguistics · Paradigm shift · Sociology · Computer Science · Digital Communication and Language · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy
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| Unique citing works | 34 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,27 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 26 |