Whose French is it anyway? Language ideologies and re-emerging indexicalities of French in Flanders
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7903471 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mieke Vandenbroucke (0000-0002-1337-4349, University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 407-432 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-01 |
| 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/s0047404517000197 |
| OpenAlex | W2605848819 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 35 |
In this article I address a number of recent controversial language-related incidents and ideological statements regarding the use of French in the public sphere by Flemish nationalist aldermen in two Flemish towns. By drawing on interviews with different stakeholders (shop owners, aldermen, and passers-by), I address the different perceptions and ideological indexicalities of French shop names and signs in these Flemish contexts. In the data, the indexical field (Eckert 2008) of French in Flanders emerges as both polyvalent and indexically ordered, while the Flemish nationalist interpretations involve rescaled and historically recursive indexical meaning that can only be understood vis-à-vis the historical language ideological debate in Belgium. Language use in the public sphere has thus become a tool to impose monolingual ‘doxic logics’ (Bourdieu 1977) in Flanders, in spite of the fact that commercial and private language use is not regulated by language laws in Belgium. (Flemish nationalism, language ideologies, linguistic landscape
Flemish · French · Ideology · Indexicality · Language ideology · Linguistics · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Public sphere · Sociology · Gender Studies in Language · Law · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |