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Resistance and adaptation to newspeakerness in educational institutions: two tales from Estonia

Language policy, 2019-11, Vol.18 (4), p.553-572

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Title:
Resistance and adaptation to newspeakerness in educational institutions: two tales from Estonia
Author: Soler, Josep ; Marten, Heiko F.
Subjects: Acculturation ; Applied Linguistics ; Attitudes ; Case studies ; Education ; Educational Environment ; Estonia ; Estonian language ; Finno Ugric Languages ; Foreign Countries ; Globalization ; Immigrants ; Language Attitudes ; Language Education ; Language Planning ; Language policy ; Language Usage ; Languages in education ; Learning Experience ; Legitimacy ; Linguistics ; Minority & ethnic groups ; Modern society ; Nation states ; New speakers ; Original Paper ; Political Science ; Population ; Profiles ; Resistance ; Second Language Instruction ; Second Language Learning ; Segregation ; Social Sciences ; Society ; Sociolinguistics ; Transnationalism
Is Part Of: Language policy, 2019-11, Vol.18 (4), p.553-572
Description: The term ‘new speaker’ has recently emerged as an attempt by sociolinguists not only to understand the different types of speaker profiles that can be found in contemporary societies, but also to grasp the underlying processes of becoming a legitimate speaker in a given society. In this article, we combine the results from two studies situated in two educational institutions in Estonia in order to find out about speakers’ language attitudes and experiences in connection to learning and using Estonian. We concentrate on members of the international community who have relatively recently arrived to the country. Our results indicate that these speakers fluctuate between two prototypical discourses, which we broadly dub as ‘resistance’ and ‘adaptation’ to newspeakerness. Our study thereby adds to current debates on ‘new speaker’ and language policy issues by illustrating how tensions around language legitimacy are played out on the ground in a small nation state such as Estonia.
Publisher: Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 1568-4555
ISSN: 1573-1863
EISSN: 1573-1863
DOI: 10.1007/s10993-018-9497-z
Source: Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
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Resistance and adaptation to newspeakerness in educational institutions: two tales from Estonia

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