Is the Personal Political? Chronotopes and Changing Stances toward Catalan Language and Identity

Autor/in	Woolard, Kathryn A.
Titel	Is the Personal Political? Chronotopes and Changing Stances toward Catalan Language and Identity
Quelle	In: International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 16 (2013) 2, S.210-224 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1367-0050
DOI	10.1080/13670050.2012.720670
Schlagwörter	Language Attitudes; Foreign Countries; Romance Languages; Immigrants; Working Class; Longitudinal Studies; High School Students; Spanish; Self Concept; Language Usage; Maturity (Individuals); Experience; Political Attitudes; Political Influences; Peer Relationship; Young Adults; Spain (Barcelona) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachverhalten; Ausland; Romanische Sprache; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Arbeiterklasse; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Spanisch; Selbstkonzept; Sprachgebrauch; Reifung; Erfahrung; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; Peer-Beziehungen; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener
Abstract	During the early catalanization of schooling in the Barcelona area in the 1980s, Castilian-speaking teenagers of working-class immigrant descent often struggled against Catalan language and identity. This longitudinal study followed a group of high-school classmates and found that as young adults, some but not all of the resistant working-class Castilian speakers have incorporated Catalan into their lives and identity. This article draws on Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of the "chronotope" or time-space frame to analyze the accounts of language and identity given by informants who adapted positively to Catalan and that of a peer whose hostility to Catalan increased over the years. Drawing on three contrasting chronotopes, informants give different meanings to personal experiences and linguistic practices. Those who adapted positively to Catalan present their linguistic development within biographical and cosmopolitan chronotopes that emphasize individual maturation and experience. They reject the politicization of language and an ideology of authenticity that links language choice to origins. The more anti-Catalan peer presents a socio-historical chronotope that frames his own experience as political and related to national and state debates, and he draws on an ideology of ethnolinguistic solidarity and linguistic authenticity. (Contains 9 notes.) (As Provided).
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