Media representations of multilingual Luxembourg

Constructing language as a resource, problem, right and duty

Bibliographic Data

ID6084764
AuthorsKristine Horner
Year2011
Volume10
Issue4
Pages491-510
Publication date2011-12-05
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Language and Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1569-2159 • E-ISSN: 1569-9862
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/jlp.10.4.02hor
OpenAlexW1995626815
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited15

Following Ruiz’s discussion of orientations in language planning, distinguishing between language as right, resource and problem, this paper unpacks the ways in which related discourses are circulated in the Luxembourgish print media. Particular attention is paid to how these discourses are interwoven with debates on education and citizenship and how they draw on deeply entrenched language ideological beliefs about language and society, e.g. that “valuable” forms of individual multilingualism are a desirable goal, whereas linguistic heterogeneity constitutes a problem. Moreover, the analysis shows that the texts thematizing multilingualism are bound up with a discourse of rights and duties, and that right and duty, as well as problem and resource, need to be conceptualized as two intersecting continua informing language ideological debates

Citizenship · Duty · Ideology · Linguistics · Multilingualism · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies in Language · Multilingual Education and Policy · Second Language Learning and Teaching · Law · Philosophy

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