The Ideology of Linguistic Naturalism: Reflexes and Reformulations in Contemporary Catalonia
With Kathryn A. Woolard, department of anthropology, UC San Diego.
When: Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009, 4 p.m.
Where: Lane Room, Ellison Hall, UCSB campus
Cost: Not available
Age limit: All ages
Categories: Lectures
Description: In western societies in the epoch of modernity, linguistic authority in the professional as well as the political view has most often been underpinned by an ideology of linguistic naturalism. Although such naturalism is commonly traced to the Romantic movement, it has been at the base of the questione della lingua since it was first raised by Dante Alighieri in his De Vulgari Eloquentia. This presentation addresses seemingly contradictory legacies of this linguistic naturalism, as well as emerging challenges to it, in the contemporary questione della lingua in Catalonia. The talk is based on ethnographic data on public and political discourses about language as well as interpersonal language choice and identity-claiming in the Barcelona area.
Kathryn A. Woolard is a linguistic anthropologist specializing in language and ethnicity, bilingual communities, language ideology, and political discourse in Spain and the United States. She is the author or editor of several volumes, including Double Talk: Bilingualism and the Politics of Ethnicity in Catalonia, Language Ideologies: Practice and Theory, and Languages and Publics: The Making of Authority, as well as numerous articles on language politics, ideology, and identity. //
Website: http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/research/identity.html //
Sponsored by the Dept. of Linguistics, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, and the IHC’s Identity Studies RFG.
Phone: 805-893-3137
Event posted Oct. 23, 2009
Last updated Oct. 23, 2009
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