Language and citizenship : broadening the agenda / edited by Tommaso M. Milani.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Milani, Tommaso M., editor.

Series:

Benjamins current topics ; Volume 91.

Benjamins Current Topics, 1874-0081 ; Volume 91

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Citizenship.

Naturalization.

Language policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (170 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017.

Summary:

This volume offers fresh, cutting-edge perspectives on issues of language and citizenship by casting a critical light on a broad spectrum of geo-political contexts and discourse data. Originally published as a special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 14:3 (2015).

Contents:

Intro

Language and Citizenship

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Language and citizenship

1. Introduction

2. Citizenship: Status, habitus, acts

2.1 Status, linguistic capital, and the reproduction of social inequality

2.2 Habitus, heteroglossia, and the ambivalent life of authoritative discourse

2.3 Acts of linguistic and bodily citizenship

2.4 Instead of reaching consensus

3. Where to from here?

References

Integration in Flanders (Belgium) - Citizenship as achievement

2. The virtualization of citizenship: Shifting from a formal to a moral concept of citizenship

2.1 Conceptualizing citizenship

2.2 Integration and citizenship policies intertwined

2.3 Citizenship and language policies

3. Socio-political and socio-cultural context in Belgium and Flanders

3.1 The Belgian state structure

3.2 Different frames of reference regarding integration and citizenship in Flanders and Wallonia

3.3 Transition into a super-diverse society

4. Language policies in Flanders: Citizenship and integration intertwined

4.1 Sub-state nation-building in Flanders

4.2 Citizenship as achievement in Flanders

4.3 Wallonia, integration policies at a slower but more and more steady pace

5. Conclusion

Language regimes and acts of citizenship in multilingual Luxembourg

2. Bridging the gap between language politics and citizenship studies

3. Language ideological debates and citizenship legislation in Luxembourg

4. Discourses on language, integration and citizenship in Luxembourg

4.1 Language regimes and the duties of integration

4.2 Acts of citizenship and democratic participation

5. Conclusion: Language and citizenship in 21st century Luxembourg and the EU

Acknowledgements

References.

'They look into your lips'

2. The historical context of British citizenship

3. Citizenship ceremonies

4. Becoming

5. Methodology

6. Becoming British: Application process and citizenship ceremony

6.1 Waiting to become British

6.2 'They look into our lips' - The ceremony

7. Conclusion

Linguistic citizenship

2. Performing acts of citizenship

3. The skit

4. Discussion

Sexual cityzenship

2. Discourse-based studies on citizenship meet research on linguistic landscapes… through sexuality

3. Joburg Pride vs. One in Nine Campaign

3.1 Joburg Pride 2012

3.2 One in Nine Campaign

4. Troubling performances of sexual cityzenship

4.1 Pride/shame and national identity: Proudly South African or not?

4.2 History repeats… uncannily: Black bodies on the tarmac

5. Concluding remarks

The party's over?

2. The People's Action Party and the politics of citizenship

3. Engaging the citizenry over the years

3.1 From nation-state to global city

3.2 Crisis and response

3.3 Nationalism

4. Into the 'new-normal': The 2011 General Elections and after

5. Discussion

6. Conclusion

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 11, 2017).