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634017765 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code BCT 91 Eb 15 9789027265166 06 10.1075/bct.91 13 LCCN 2017038891 DG 002 02 01 BCT 02 1874-0081 Benjamins Current Topics 91 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Language and Citizenship</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Broadening the agenda</Subtitle> 01 bct.91 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/bct.91 1 B01 Tommaso M. Milani Milani, Tommaso M. Tommaso M. Milani University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 01 eng 168 v 162 LAN009040 v.2006 CFG 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.DISC Discourse studies 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.LAPO Language policy 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.PRAG Pragmatics 06 01 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 – Flanders, Luxembourg, Singapore, South Africa, the UK - and discourse data – policy documents, newspaper articles, ethnographic notes and interviews, skits, bodies in protests. The main aims of the book are to investigate institutional discourses about the relationship between nationality and citizenship, and relate such discourses to more ethnographically grounded interactions; tease out the multiple and often conflicting meanings of citizenship; and explore the different linguistic/semiotic guises that citizenship might take on in different contexts. The book argues that the linguistic/discursive study of citizenship should not only include critical investigations of political proposals about language testing, but should also encompass the diverse, more or less mundane, ways in which various social actors enact citizenship with the help of an array of multivocal, material, and affective semiotic resources. Originally published as a special issue of <i>Journal of Language and Politics</i> 14:3 (2015). 05 This extraordinary collective volume expands and deepens exponentially the multiple meanings of ‘citizenship’ by moving it to new territories. From citizenship as bureaucratic tool to a symbolic device for national regimes where language serves as a main discriminatory device. Each chapter draws light on a new perspective of citizenship including issues of ceremonies, bodies and sexuality in some new entities as Singapore and South Africa. All in all, the reader can observe how language is abused for the sake of exclusion, and control of human freedom. Elana Shohamy, Tel Aviv University 05 The volume transcends the limited focus on political proposals in previous linguistic/discursive studies of citizenship and provides inspiring insights on the dynamics between language and citizenship. It makes valuable reading for researchers and specialists in a number of related fields, including language politics, critical discourse analysis, multimodal analysis and media studies. Shang Wu and Wen Li, Shanghai Jiaotong University, in Journal of Language and Politics 18:6 (2019) 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/bct.91.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027242792.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027242792.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/bct.91.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/bct.91.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/bct.91.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/bct.91.hb.png 10 01 JB code bct.91.01mil 1 16 16 Article 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Language and citizenship</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Broadening the agenda</Subtitle> 1 A01 Tommaso M. Milani Milani, Tommaso M. Tommaso M. Milani 20 acts 20 affect 20 citizenship 20 habitus 20 multivocality 20 status 01 The main argument advanced in this article that frames this special issue is that citizenship is not just a highly polysemic word employed by the media and other political institutions; it is also a set of norms and (linguistic) behaviours that individuals are socialised into, as well as a series of practices that social actors perform through an array of semiotic means including multilingualism, multivoicedness, the body, and affect. In light of this, it is proposed that the linguistic/discursive study of citizenship should be expanded beyond a rather narrow emphasis on political proposals about language testing to include the diverse, more or less mundane, ways in which citizenship is enacted via an array of <i>multivocal, material, </i>and <i>affective</i> semiotic resources. 10 01 JB code bct.91.02pul 17 40 24 Article 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Integration in Flanders (Belgium) &#8211; Citizenship as achievement</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">How intertwined are &#8216;citizenship&#8217; and &#8216;integration&#8217; in Flemish language policies&#63;</Subtitle> 1 A01 Reinhilde Pulinx Pulinx, Reinhilde Reinhilde Pulinx 2 A01 Piet Van Avermaet Van Avermaet, Piet Piet Van Avermaet 20 language and integration policies 20 language ideologies 20 moral citizenship 20 social networks 20 super diversity 01 In this article we will show, with Flanders (Belgium) as a concrete case, how intertwined integration and citizenship discourses and policies have become in contemporary super-diverse societies. Flanders is a clear example of how integration is gradually being replaced by virtual or moral citizenship. The fact that (moral) citizenship has replaced integration, has as a consequence that the concept of citizenship has shifted, in a subtle way, from a dynamic and contextualized process, which shapes itself in daily practice through social networks, into &#8216;citizenship as achievement&#8217;. This is an achievement that is the sole responsibility of certain groups in society. It is also an impossible achievement, because some are exempt from it and others will always be perceived as not yet belonging to the category of &#8216;true citizens&#8217;. 10 01 JB code bct.91.03hor 41 64 24 Article 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Language regimes and acts of citizenship in multilingual Luxembourg</TitleText> 1 A01 Kristine Horner Horner, Kristine Kristine Horner 20 acts of citizenship 20 language ideologies 20 language politics 20 language testing 20 Luxembourg 01 Linked to global processes and the reconfigurations of &#8216;outer&#8217; and &#8216;inner&#8217; European Union (EU) borders are attempts at harmonizing migration policies across EU member-states as well as introducing an additional layer of EU citizenship to that of the state. At the same time, discourses on citizenship in many EU member-states continue to be informed by the ideal of nation-state congruence and the dogma of social and linguistic homogeneism. Combining research on regimes of language and acts of citizenship, this paper provides an analysis of discourses on language, integration and citizenship in Luxembourg. The analysis shows how disputes concerning the introduction of the formalized testing of Luxembourgish as part of the 2008 law on <i>la nationalit&#233; luxembourgeoise</i> &#8216;Luxembourgish nationality&#8217; are intertwined with contestations over transformations of long-standing language regimes and with the issue of whether the authority of Luxembourgish is bound up with notions of anonymity or authenticity. 10 01 JB code bct.91.04kha 65 88 24 Article 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">&#8216;They look into our lips&#8217;</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Negotiation of the citizenship ceremony as authoritative discourse</Subtitle> 1 A01 Kamran Khan Khan, Kamran Kamran Khan 2 A01 Adrian Blackledge Blackledge, Adrian Adrian Blackledge 20 authoritative discourse 20 Bakhtin 20 citizenship 20 citizenship ceremony 20 ideological becoming 01 The British citizenship ceremony marks the legal endpoint of the naturalisation process. While the citizenship ceremony may be a celebration, it can also be a final examination. Using an ethnographically-informed case study, this article follows one candidate, &#8216;W&#8217;, through the naturalisation process in the UK. W is a migrant Yemeni at the end of the naturalisation process. Bakhtin&#8217;s notion of &#8220;ideological becoming&#8221; offers an analytic orientation into how competing discourses may operate. This article focuses on the role of what Bakhtin describes as &#8220;authoritative discourse&#8221; in the citizenship ceremony, in particular the Oath/Affirmation of Allegiance which citizenship candidates are required to recite. Success in the ceremony is dependent on how individuals negotiate authoritative discourse. This study follows W and highlights the complexities and negotiations of authoritative discourse in a citizenship ceremony. 10 01 JB code bct.91.05wil 89 112 24 Article 5 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Linguistic citizenship</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Language and politics in postnational modernities</Subtitle> 1 A01 Quentin E. Williams Williams, Quentin E. Quentin E. Williams 2 A01 Christopher Stroud Stroud, Christopher Christopher Stroud 20 chronotope 20 indexicality 20 language politics 20 linguistic citizenship 20 performance 20 stand-up comedy 01 A major challenge facing South Africa is that of reconstructing a meaningful and inclusive notion of citizenship in the aftermath of its apartheid past and in the face of narratives of divisiveness that reach back from this past and continue to reverberate in the present. Many of the problems confronting South African social transformation are similar to the rest of the postcolonial world that continues to wrestle with the inherited colonial divide between citizen and subject. In this article, we explore how engagement with diversity and marginalization is taking place across a range of non-institutional and informal political arenas. Here, we elaborate on an approach towards the linguistic practices of the political everyday in terms of a notion of <i>linguistic citizenship</i> and by way of conclusion argue that the contradictions and turmoils of contemporary South Africa require further serious deliberation around alternative notions of citizenship and their semiotics. 10 01 JB code bct.91.06mil 113 136 24 Article 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Sexual cityzenship</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Discourses, spaces and bodies at Joburg Pride 2012</Subtitle> 1 A01 Tommaso M. Milani Milani, Tommaso M. Tommaso M. Milani 20 affect 20 citizenship 20 linguistic landscapes 20 national identity 20 queer 20 sexuality 20 South Africa 20 space 01 This article explores an incident that took place in the context of Joburg Pride 2012, where the activist group One in Nine Campaign attempted to temporarily stop the Pride parade through means of a die-in protest, resulting in resistance and violence on the part of the Pride participants. The article argues that Pride and the One in Nine protest are manifestations of two very different types of sexual cityzenship. Whilst Pride is an orderly claim to the urban environment that is founded on an alignment with state-sanctioned, rights-based discourses of gay and lesbian identity, the One in Nine protest is a spatial disruption that problematises the optimistic reliance on sexual identities as catalysts for political action. The article also seeks to offer a queer epistemology that questions the logocentric bias of research on discourse, space and citizenship by encompassing not only the visual but also and most importantly the corporeal. 10 01 JB code bct.91.07wee 137 160 24 Article 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">The party&#8217;s over&#63;</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">party&#8217;s over&#63;</TitleWithoutPrefix> <Subtitle textformat="02">Singapore politics and the &#8216;new normal&#8217;</Subtitle> 1 A01 Lionel Wee Wee, Lionel Lionel Wee 20 global city 20 habitus 20 speech act 20 stance 20 style 01 This paper highlights the dynamic nature of the relationship between government and society, drawing on as a case study the changing relationship between the Singapore government and the citizenry. I discuss the conditions under which the People&#8217;s Action Party is under pressure to change its style of government,. Following on from this discussion, I make two key points. One, concepts such as habitus and act (Isin 2008) have been employed to elucidate the nature of citizenship. But they are also relevant to our understanding of government. Two, the distinction between act and habitus, at least as articulated by Isin (2008), confuses two ontologically distinct entitiies: a disposition to act, and the action itself. I suggest that this confusion arises in part from Isin&#8217;s failure to examine carefully the communicative modes of engagement between the government and the citizenry. 10 01 JB code bct.91.08ind 161 162 2 Article 8 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Index</TitleText> 02 JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia NL 04 20170609 2017 John Benjamins B.V. 02 WORLD 13 15 9789027242792 01 JB 3 John Benjamins e-Platform 03 jbe-platform.com 09 WORLD 21 01 00 85.00 EUR R 01 00 71.00 GBP Z 01 gen 00 128.00 USD S 830017764 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code BCT 91 Hb 15 9789027242792 13 2017012868 BB 01 BCT 02 1874-0081 Benjamins Current Topics 91 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Language and Citizenship</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Broadening the agenda</Subtitle> 01 bct.91 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/bct.91 1 B01 Tommaso M. Milani Milani, Tommaso M. Tommaso M. Milani University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 01 eng 168 v 162 LAN009040 v.2006 CFG 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.DISC Discourse studies 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.LAPO Language policy 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.PRAG Pragmatics 06 01 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 – Flanders, Luxembourg, Singapore, South Africa, the UK - and discourse data – policy documents, newspaper articles, ethnographic notes and interviews, skits, bodies in protests. The main aims of the book are to investigate institutional discourses about the relationship between nationality and citizenship, and relate such discourses to more ethnographically grounded interactions; tease out the multiple and often conflicting meanings of citizenship; and explore the different linguistic/semiotic guises that citizenship might take on in different contexts. The book argues that the linguistic/discursive study of citizenship should not only include critical investigations of political proposals about language testing, but should also encompass the diverse, more or less mundane, ways in which various social actors enact citizenship with the help of an array of multivocal, material, and affective semiotic resources. Originally published as a special issue of <i>Journal of Language and Politics</i> 14:3 (2015). 05 This extraordinary collective volume expands and deepens exponentially the multiple meanings of ‘citizenship’ by moving it to new territories. From citizenship as bureaucratic tool to a symbolic device for national regimes where language serves as a main discriminatory device. Each chapter draws light on a new perspective of citizenship including issues of ceremonies, bodies and sexuality in some new entities as Singapore and South Africa. All in all, the reader can observe how language is abused for the sake of exclusion, and control of human freedom. Elana Shohamy, Tel Aviv University 05 The volume transcends the limited focus on political proposals in previous linguistic/discursive studies of citizenship and provides inspiring insights on the dynamics between language and citizenship. It makes valuable reading for researchers and specialists in a number of related fields, including language politics, critical discourse analysis, multimodal analysis and media studies. Shang Wu and Wen Li, Shanghai Jiaotong University, in Journal of Language and Politics 18:6 (2019) 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/bct.91.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027242792.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027242792.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/bct.91.hb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/bct.91.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/bct.91.hb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/bct.91.hb.png 10 01 JB code bct.91.01mil 1 16 16 Article 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Language and citizenship</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Broadening the agenda</Subtitle> 1 A01 Tommaso M. Milani Milani, Tommaso M. Tommaso M. Milani 20 acts 20 affect 20 citizenship 20 habitus 20 multivocality 20 status 01 The main argument advanced in this article that frames this special issue is that citizenship is not just a highly polysemic word employed by the media and other political institutions; it is also a set of norms and (linguistic) behaviours that individuals are socialised into, as well as a series of practices that social actors perform through an array of semiotic means including multilingualism, multivoicedness, the body, and affect. In light of this, it is proposed that the linguistic/discursive study of citizenship should be expanded beyond a rather narrow emphasis on political proposals about language testing to include the diverse, more or less mundane, ways in which citizenship is enacted via an array of <i>multivocal, material, </i>and <i>affective</i> semiotic resources. 10 01 JB code bct.91.02pul 17 40 24 Article 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Integration in Flanders (Belgium) &#8211; Citizenship as achievement</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">How intertwined are &#8216;citizenship&#8217; and &#8216;integration&#8217; in Flemish language policies&#63;</Subtitle> 1 A01 Reinhilde Pulinx Pulinx, Reinhilde Reinhilde Pulinx 2 A01 Piet Van Avermaet Van Avermaet, Piet Piet Van Avermaet 20 language and integration policies 20 language ideologies 20 moral citizenship 20 social networks 20 super diversity 01 In this article we will show, with Flanders (Belgium) as a concrete case, how intertwined integration and citizenship discourses and policies have become in contemporary super-diverse societies. Flanders is a clear example of how integration is gradually being replaced by virtual or moral citizenship. The fact that (moral) citizenship has replaced integration, has as a consequence that the concept of citizenship has shifted, in a subtle way, from a dynamic and contextualized process, which shapes itself in daily practice through social networks, into &#8216;citizenship as achievement&#8217;. This is an achievement that is the sole responsibility of certain groups in society. It is also an impossible achievement, because some are exempt from it and others will always be perceived as not yet belonging to the category of &#8216;true citizens&#8217;. 10 01 JB code bct.91.03hor 41 64 24 Article 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Language regimes and acts of citizenship in multilingual Luxembourg</TitleText> 1 A01 Kristine Horner Horner, Kristine Kristine Horner 20 acts of citizenship 20 language ideologies 20 language politics 20 language testing 20 Luxembourg 01 Linked to global processes and the reconfigurations of &#8216;outer&#8217; and &#8216;inner&#8217; European Union (EU) borders are attempts at harmonizing migration policies across EU member-states as well as introducing an additional layer of EU citizenship to that of the state. At the same time, discourses on citizenship in many EU member-states continue to be informed by the ideal of nation-state congruence and the dogma of social and linguistic homogeneism. Combining research on regimes of language and acts of citizenship, this paper provides an analysis of discourses on language, integration and citizenship in Luxembourg. The analysis shows how disputes concerning the introduction of the formalized testing of Luxembourgish as part of the 2008 law on <i>la nationalit&#233; luxembourgeoise</i> &#8216;Luxembourgish nationality&#8217; are intertwined with contestations over transformations of long-standing language regimes and with the issue of whether the authority of Luxembourgish is bound up with notions of anonymity or authenticity. 10 01 JB code bct.91.04kha 65 88 24 Article 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">&#8216;They look into our lips&#8217;</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Negotiation of the citizenship ceremony as authoritative discourse</Subtitle> 1 A01 Kamran Khan Khan, Kamran Kamran Khan 2 A01 Adrian Blackledge Blackledge, Adrian Adrian Blackledge 20 authoritative discourse 20 Bakhtin 20 citizenship 20 citizenship ceremony 20 ideological becoming 01 The British citizenship ceremony marks the legal endpoint of the naturalisation process. While the citizenship ceremony may be a celebration, it can also be a final examination. Using an ethnographically-informed case study, this article follows one candidate, &#8216;W&#8217;, through the naturalisation process in the UK. W is a migrant Yemeni at the end of the naturalisation process. Bakhtin&#8217;s notion of &#8220;ideological becoming&#8221; offers an analytic orientation into how competing discourses may operate. This article focuses on the role of what Bakhtin describes as &#8220;authoritative discourse&#8221; in the citizenship ceremony, in particular the Oath/Affirmation of Allegiance which citizenship candidates are required to recite. Success in the ceremony is dependent on how individuals negotiate authoritative discourse. This study follows W and highlights the complexities and negotiations of authoritative discourse in a citizenship ceremony. 10 01 JB code bct.91.05wil 89 112 24 Article 5 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Linguistic citizenship</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Language and politics in postnational modernities</Subtitle> 1 A01 Quentin E. Williams Williams, Quentin E. Quentin E. Williams 2 A01 Christopher Stroud Stroud, Christopher Christopher Stroud 20 chronotope 20 indexicality 20 language politics 20 linguistic citizenship 20 performance 20 stand-up comedy 01 A major challenge facing South Africa is that of reconstructing a meaningful and inclusive notion of citizenship in the aftermath of its apartheid past and in the face of narratives of divisiveness that reach back from this past and continue to reverberate in the present. Many of the problems confronting South African social transformation are similar to the rest of the postcolonial world that continues to wrestle with the inherited colonial divide between citizen and subject. In this article, we explore how engagement with diversity and marginalization is taking place across a range of non-institutional and informal political arenas. Here, we elaborate on an approach towards the linguistic practices of the political everyday in terms of a notion of <i>linguistic citizenship</i> and by way of conclusion argue that the contradictions and turmoils of contemporary South Africa require further serious deliberation around alternative notions of citizenship and their semiotics. 10 01 JB code bct.91.06mil 113 136 24 Article 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Sexual cityzenship</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Discourses, spaces and bodies at Joburg Pride 2012</Subtitle> 1 A01 Tommaso M. Milani Milani, Tommaso M. Tommaso M. Milani 20 affect 20 citizenship 20 linguistic landscapes 20 national identity 20 queer 20 sexuality 20 South Africa 20 space 01 This article explores an incident that took place in the context of Joburg Pride 2012, where the activist group One in Nine Campaign attempted to temporarily stop the Pride parade through means of a die-in protest, resulting in resistance and violence on the part of the Pride participants. The article argues that Pride and the One in Nine protest are manifestations of two very different types of sexual cityzenship. Whilst Pride is an orderly claim to the urban environment that is founded on an alignment with state-sanctioned, rights-based discourses of gay and lesbian identity, the One in Nine protest is a spatial disruption that problematises the optimistic reliance on sexual identities as catalysts for political action. The article also seeks to offer a queer epistemology that questions the logocentric bias of research on discourse, space and citizenship by encompassing not only the visual but also and most importantly the corporeal. 10 01 JB code bct.91.07wee 137 160 24 Article 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">The party&#8217;s over&#63;</TitleText> <TitlePrefix>The </TitlePrefix> <TitleWithoutPrefix textformat="02">party&#8217;s over&#63;</TitleWithoutPrefix> <Subtitle textformat="02">Singapore politics and the &#8216;new normal&#8217;</Subtitle> 1 A01 Lionel Wee Wee, Lionel Lionel Wee 20 global city 20 habitus 20 speech act 20 stance 20 style 01 This paper highlights the dynamic nature of the relationship between government and society, drawing on as a case study the changing relationship between the Singapore government and the citizenry. I discuss the conditions under which the People&#8217;s Action Party is under pressure to change its style of government,. Following on from this discussion, I make two key points. One, concepts such as habitus and act (Isin 2008) have been employed to elucidate the nature of citizenship. But they are also relevant to our understanding of government. Two, the distinction between act and habitus, at least as articulated by Isin (2008), confuses two ontologically distinct entitiies: a disposition to act, and the action itself. I suggest that this confusion arises in part from Isin&#8217;s failure to examine carefully the communicative modes of engagement between the government and the citizenry. 10 01 JB code bct.91.08ind 161 162 2 Article 8 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Index</TitleText> 02 JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia NL 04 20170609 2017 John Benjamins B.V. 02 WORLD 08 445 gr 01 JB 1 John Benjamins Publishing Company +31 20 6304747 +31 20 6739773 bookorder@benjamins.nl 01 https://benjamins.com 01 WORLD US CA MX 21 67 30 01 02 JB 1 00 85.00 EUR R 02 02 JB 1 00 90.10 EUR R 01 JB 10 bebc +44 1202 712 934 +44 1202 712 913 sales@bebc.co.uk 03 GB 21 30 02 02 JB 1 00 71.00 GBP Z 01 JB 2 John Benjamins North America +1 800 562-5666 +1 703 661-1501 benjamins@presswarehouse.com 01 https://benjamins.com 01 US CA MX 21 1 30 01 gen 02 JB 1 00 128.00 USD