Paths to post-nationalism : a critical ethnography of language and identity / Monica Heller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heller, Monica.

Series:

Oxford studies in sociolinguistics.

Oxford studies in sociolinguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French language--Political aspects--Canada.

French language.

French language--Social aspects--Ontario.

French-Canadians--Language.

French-Canadians.

Globalization.

Nationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Monica Heller shows how hegemonic discourses of language identity and the nation-State are destabilized under new political and economic conditions.

Contents:

Contents; 1 Sociolinguistics as Social Practice; 1.1 A Story for Our Times; 1.2 A Brief Consideration of Sociolinguistics and the Nation-State; 1.3 Toward a Critical Ethnographic Sociolinguistics; 1.4 Ideological Shifts through the Lens of Francophone Canada; 1.5 From Traditionalist to Modernizing to Post-Nationalist Discourse of the Francophone Nation; 2 Critical Ethnographic Sociolinguistics; 2.1 Labeling Experience; 2.2 Critique and Ontology; 2.3 Ethnography; 2.4 Sociolinguistics; 2.5 Critical Ethnographic Sociolinguistics and the Globalized New Economy: From Workforce to Wordforce

3 La foi, la race, la langue: Catholic Ethnonationalism in Francophone Canada (1926-1965, with an Interjection from 2000)3.1 Discursive and Institutional Change; 3.2 L'Ordre de Jacques Cartier; 3.3 A Secret Society Seen from Below; 3.4 The OJC, Modernity, and Traditional Ideologies of Language and Identity; 3.5 The Dissolution and Its Aftermath; 4 Brewing Trouble: Language, the State, and Modernity in Industrial Beer Production (Montreal, 1978-1980); 4.1 Investigating Modernizing Nationalism: Sociolinguistics in the Brewery

4.2 The Ethnolinguistic Organization of Expansion and Technologization4.3 Position and Interest in the Francization of the Brewery; 4.4 The Interactional Accomplishment of Francophonization; 4.5 Discursive Shift and Political Economic Change; 4.6 And What Is a Critical Ethnographic Sociolinguistics Here?; 5 From Identity to Commodity: Schooling, Social Selection, and Social Reproduction (Toronto, 1983-1996); 5.1 If They Are Québécois, Who Are We?; 5.2 Education and Institutional Territorial Nationalism; 5.3 Constructing an "Oasis"; 5.4 Identities and Commodities; 5.5 Crawling to Neoliberalism

6 Neoliberalism and La cause: Modernizing Nationalism at Its Limits (Lelac, 1997-2004)6.1 The Milieu associatif as Discursive Space; 6.2 From Rights to Profits: Canada's Neoliberal Turn; 6.3 Lelac: Potatoes, Milk, Trees, Tourists, and the Highway; 6.4 From Cultural Survival to Added Value; 6.5 Le Festival du Village; 7 Selling the Nation, Saving the Market (All Over the Place, 2001-Present); 7.1 Authenticity and Language in the New Economy; 7.2 Tourism, Terroir, and the Performance of Identity; 7.3 Bounding Francophone Space; 7.4 Problems of Linguistic Commodification

7.5 Paradoxes and Potentials8 Paths to Post-Nationalism; 8.1 Leaking Meta-Commentary; 8.2 The Poster Boys of Post-Nationalism; 8.3 Cool Irony, High Anxiety?; 8.4 Ethnographies of Discursive Shifts; 8.5 Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed Dec. 17, 2010).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613009739

1-283-00973-0

0-19-984232-9

0-19-974686-9

OCLC:

922970434