UID:
almahu_9949179321502882
Format:
1 online resource (170 pages).
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Benjamins Current Topics, Volume 91
Content:
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).
Note:
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 -- 1. Introduction -- 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 -- References -- Language regimes and acts of citizenship in multilingual Luxembourg -- 1. Introduction -- 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.
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'They look into your lips' -- 1. Introduction -- 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 -- References -- Linguistic citizenship -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Performing acts of citizenship -- 3. The skit -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Sexual cityzenship -- 1. Introduction -- 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 -- References -- The party's over? -- 1. Introduction -- 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 -- References.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-272-4279-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-272-6516-X
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
