Countervocalities: Shifting Language Hierarchies on Corsica

The Mediterranean island of Corsica, a French territory, experiences mobility in the form of locals' mass exodus...
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Author: Alexander Mendes
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Countervocalities: Shifting Language Hierarchies on Corsica by Mendes, Alexander

Countervocalities: Shifting Language Hierarchies on Corsica

BD$326.09

Countervocalities: Shifting Language Hierarchies on Corsica

BD$326.09
Author: Alexander Mendes
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

The Mediterranean island of Corsica, a French territory, experiences mobility in the form of locals' mass exodus to the Continent, the arrival of immigrants at rates similar to Paris, and a booming tourist industry with millions of visitors each year. What, then, are the multilingual dynamics on the island--languages emerging from above (French), a middle ground (Corsican), and sideways (languages of immigrants and tourists)? What multilingual subjectivities are articulated? Mendes analyzes competing conceptualizations of linguistic multiplicity, what he calls countervocalities, in which languages are constantly rearranging in variously imagined hierarchies.

Countervocalities explores different dimensions of institutional multilingualism, namely those related to policies, practices, and ideologies within and extending from education settings. The chapters address reclamation, imposition, and erasure of different languages on Corsica, moving from inside the school, to artefacts from the schoolscape, to discourses about language teaching. The study fruitfully analyzes an array of interactional and artefactual data types. This productive alternation offers a cross-section of attitudes toward and representations of multilingual dynamics while foregrounding the role of mobility and language in understandings of place and what counts as local.



Author: Alexander Mendes
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 09/01/2023
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781837644391

About the Author
Alexander Mendes has worked in interdisciplinary French studies from the vantage point of sociocultural and applied linguistics. He holds a PhD in French from the University of California, Davis.

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