The French Language And National Identity

Author : Leigh Oakes
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027218483

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Language and National Identity by Leigh Oakes Pdf

This book re-examines the relationship between language and national identity. Unlike many previous studies, it employs a comparative approach: France and Sweden have been chosen as case studies both for their similarities (e.g. both are member states of the European Union) as well as their important differences (e.g. France subscribes in principle to a civic model of national identity, whereas the basis of Swedish identity is undeniably ethnic). It is precisely differences such as these which allow for a more comprehensive understanding of the ethnolinguistic implications of some of the major challenges currently facing France, Sweden and other European countries: regionalism, immigration, European integration and globalization. The present volume benefits from the use of a multidisciplinary approach, and differs from others on the market because of the variety of methods of inquiry used. A series of societal analyses is complemented by an empirical component, bringing a more grounded understanding to the issue of language and national identity.

Author : David C. Gordon
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110809947

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The French Language and National Identity (1930–1975) by David C. Gordon Pdf

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.

Author : David C. Gordon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : France
ISBN : 3111880931

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The French Language and National Identity by David C. Gordon Pdf

Author : Robert H. Crawshaw,Karin Tusting
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0415184088

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Exploring French Text Analysis by Robert H. Crawshaw,Karin Tusting Pdf

Varied and clearly presented, this book introduces students of French to a range of methods of text analysis, including stylistics and discourse analysis.

Author : John Myhill
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027227119

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Language, Religion and National Identity in Europe and the Middle East by John Myhill Pdf

This book discusses the historical record of the idea that language is associated with national identity, demonstrating that different applications of this idea have consistently produced certain types of results. Nationalist movements aimed at 'unification', based upon languages which vary greatly at the spoken level, e.g. German, Italian, Pan-Turkish and Arabic, have been associated with aggression, fascism and genocide, while those based upon relatively homogeneous spoken languages, e.g. Czech, Norwegian and Ukrainian, have resulted in national liberation and international stability. It is also shown that religion can be more important to national identity than language, but only for religious groups which were understood in premodern times to be national rather than universal or doctrinal, e.g. Jews, Armenians, Maronites, Serbs, Dutch and English; this is demonstrated with discussions of the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, the civil war in Lebanon and the breakup of Yugoslavia, the United Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

Author : Dr Michele Cohen,Michele Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134842209

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Fashioning Masculinity by Dr Michele Cohen,Michele Cohen Pdf

The fashioning of English gentlemen in the eighteenth century was modelled on French practices of sociability and conversation. Michele Cohen shows how at the same time, the English constructed their cultural relations with the French as relations of seduction and desire. She argues that this produced anxiety on the part of the English over the effect of French practices on English masculinity and the virtue of English women. By the end of the century, representing the French as an effeminate other was integral to the forging of English, masculine national identity. Michele Cohen examines the derogation of women and the French which accompanied the emergent 'masculine' English identity. While taciturnity became emblematic of the English gentleman's depth of mind and masculinity, sprightly conversation was seen as representing the shallow and inferior intellect of English women and the French of both sexes. Michele Cohen also demonstrates how visible evidence of girls' verbal and language learning skills served only to construe the female mind as inferior. She argues that this perception still has currency today.

Author : William D. Davies,Stanley Dubinsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107022096

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Language Conflict and Language Rights by William D. Davies,Stanley Dubinsky Pdf

An overview of language rights issues and language conflicts with detailed examination of many cases past and present around the world.

Author : Leigh Oakes
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1588111164

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Language and National Identity by Leigh Oakes Pdf

This book re-examines the relationship between language and national identity. Unlike many previous studies, it employs a comparative approach: France and Sweden have been chosen as case studies both for their similarities (e.g. both are member states of the European Union) as well as their important differences (e.g. France subscribes in principle to a civic model of national identity, whereas the basis of Swedish identity is undeniably ethnic). It is precisely differences such as these which allow for a more comprehensive understanding of the ethnolinguistic implications of some of the major challenges currently facing France, Sweden and other European countries: regionalism, immigration, European integration and globalization.The present volume benefits from the use of a multidisciplinary approach, and differs from others on the market because of the variety of methods of inquiry used. A series of societal analyses is complemented by an empirical component, bringing a more grounded understanding to the issue of language and national identity.

Author : Brian Sudlow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351503709

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National Identities in France by Brian Sudlow Pdf

National Identities in France explores nationalism, national identities, and the various ways in which these concepts are accepted, adapted, discarded, or internally disputed across ideological divides. The popular assumption that automatically regards nationalism as a largely right-wing concern, occludes the many ways in which nationalism and national identities have contributed to social imagination and political or literary discourses across the right-left spectrum. The critical grounds on which such reflections are undertaken are rich and varied. The idea of invented traditions has long suggested how such a thing as the modernnation-state could vest itself in the creatively assembled robes of a dim and distant past. In plotting the ground on which nationalisms are located, previous studies have shown, among other things, the uses and limitations of the distinction of ethnic and civic nationalism. Studies on national development reveal the imitative process that brought about nation building in former colonies of the Western powers. Each chapter asks important questions concerning nationalism and national identities in relation to France. With nationalism, apparently stable distinctions collapse under the pressure of French national identity. The signs are that French national identities and nationalisms are in a constant state of reinvention and negotiation, of periodic crisis and constant rebirth. If political classes attempt to manipulate national identity for some larger project, they have no monopoly on the social imaginary. National mobilization is a multiple and polysemic process, not a univocal and rigid ideology.

Author : Andrew Simpson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191536816

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Language and National Identity in Africa by Andrew Simpson Pdf

This book focuses on language, culture, and national identity in Africa. Leading specialists examine countries in every part of the continent - Egypt, Morocco, Sudan, Senegal, Mali, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Zanbia, South Africa, and the nations of the Horn, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and Somalia. Each chapter describes and examines the country's linguistic and political history and the relation of its languages to national, ethnic, and cultural identities, and assesses the relative status of majority and minority languages and the role of language in ethnic conflict. Of the book's authors, fifteen are from Africa and seven from Europe and the USA. Jargon-free, fully referenced, and illustrated with seventeen maps, this book will be of value to a wide range of readers in linguistics, politics, history, sociology, and anthropology. It will interest everyone wishing to understand the dynamic interactions between language and politics in Africa, in the past and now.

Author : Gabrielle Hecht
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780262266178

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The Radiance of France, new edition by Gabrielle Hecht Pdf

How it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or “radiance,” which also means “radiation” in French) became synonymous in France as nowhere else. In the aftermath of World War II, as France sought a distinctive role for itself in the modern, postcolonial world, the nation and its leaders enthusiastically embraced large technological projects in general and nuclear power in particular. The Radiance of France asks how it happened that technological prowess and national glory (or “radiance,” which also means “radiation” in French) became synonymous in France as nowhere else. To answer this question, Gabrielle Hecht has forged an innovative combination of technology studies and cultural and political history in a book that, as Michel Callon writes in the new foreword to this edition, “not only sheds new light on the role of technology in the construction of national identities” but is also “a seminal contribution to the history of contemporary France.” Proposing the concept of technopolitical regime as a way to analyze the social, political, cultural, and technological dynamics among engineering elites, unionized workers, and rural communities, Hecht shows how the history of France's first generation of nuclear reactors is also a history of the multiple meanings of nationalism, from the postwar period (and France's desire for post-Vichy redemption) to 1969 and the adoption of a “Frenchified” American design. This paperback edition of Hecht's groundbreaking book includes both Callon's foreword and an afterword by the author in which she brings the story up to date, and reflects on such recent developments as the 2007 French presidential election, the promotion of nuclear power as the solution to climate change, and France's aggressive exporting of nuclear technology.

Author : Joseph F. Byrnes
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271022697

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Catholic and French Forever by Joseph F. Byrnes Pdf

It is often said that there are two Frances—Catholic and secular. This notion dates back to the 1790s, when the revolutionary government sought to divorce Catholic Christianity from national life. While Napoleon formally reconciled his regime to France’s millions of Catholics, church-state relations have remained a source of conflict and debate throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In Catholic and French Forever Joseph Byrnes recounts the fights and reconciliations between French citizens who found Catholicism integral to their traditional French identity and those who found the continued presence of Catholicism an obstacle to both happiness and progress. He does so through stories of priests, legislators, intellectuals, and pilgrims whose experiences manifest the problem of being both Catholic and French in modern France. Byrnes finds that loyalties to the French nation and Catholicism became so incompatible in the revolutionary era that Catholic believers responded defensively across the nineteenth century, politicizing both religious pilgrimage and the languages of religious instruction. He shows that a détente emerged in the first decades of the twentieth century with the respect given to priests in arms during World War I and to the work of religious art historian Émile Mâle. This détente has lasted, precariously and with interruption, up to the present day.

Author : Linda Gardelle,Camille Jacob
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000281545

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Schools and National Identities in French-speaking Africa by Linda Gardelle,Camille Jacob Pdf

Schools and National Identities in French-speaking Africa showcases cutting-edge research to provide a renewed understanding of the role of schools in producing and reproducing national identities. Using individual case studies and comparative frameworks, it presents diverse empirical and theoretical insights from and about a range of African countries. The volume demonstrates in particular the usefulness of the curriculum as a lens through which to analyse the production and negotiation of national identities in different settings. Chapters discuss the tensions between decolonisation as a moment in time and decolonisation as a lengthy and messy process, the interplay between the local, national and international priorities of different actors, and the nuanced role of historiography and language in nation-building. At its heart is the need to critically investigate the concept of "the nation" as a political project, how discourses and feelings of belonging are constructed at school, and what it means for schools to be simultaneously places of learning, tools of socialisation and political battlegrounds. By presenting new research on textbooks, practitioners and policy in ten different African countries, this volume provides insights into the diversity of issues and dynamics surrounding the question of schools and national identities. It will be of particular interest to scholars, researchers and postgraduate students of comparative and international education, sociology, history, sociolinguistics and African studies.

Author : Andrew Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199286744

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Language and National Identity in Africa by Andrew Simpson Pdf

This book focuses on language, culture, and identity in nineteen countries in Africa. Leading specialists, mainly from Africa, describe national linguistic and political histories, assess the status of majority and minority languages, and consider the role of language in ethnic conflict.

Author : Philip Thody
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781441177605

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Le Franglais by Philip Thody Pdf

A study of the attempt by French politicians to use the law to forbid the use of words in English and American origin. Classifies some of these words and lists expressions in current use in American and England which are particularly difficult to render in French, comparing these with some equally untranslatable French turns of speech.