575018218 03 01 01 JB code JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code BCT 91 GE 15 9789027265166 06 10.1075/bct.91 13 LCCN 2017038891 00 EA E133 10 01 JB code BCT 02 JB code 1874-0081 02 91.00 01 02 Benjamins Current Topics Benjamins Current Topics 01 01 Language and Citizenship Language and Citizenship 1 B01 01 JB code 60283378 Tommaso M. Milani Milani, Tommaso M. Tommaso M. Milani University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 01 eng 11 168 03 03 v 03 00 162 03 24 JB code LIN.DISC Discourse studies 24 JB code LIN.LAPO Language policy 24 JB code LIN.PRAG Pragmatics 10 LAN009040 12 CFG 01 06 02 00 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). 03 00 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. 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Milani 01 01 JB code bct.91.02pul 06 10.1075/bct.91.02pul 17 40 24 Article 2 01 04 Integration in Flanders (Belgium) x Citizenship as achievement Integration in Flanders (Belgium) – Citizenship as achievement 01 04 How intertwined are `citizenship' and `integration' in Flemish language policies? How intertwined are ‘citizenship’ and ‘integration’ in Flemish language policies? 1 A01 01 JB code 429289990 Reinhilde Pulinx Pulinx, Reinhilde Reinhilde Pulinx 2 A01 01 JB code 718289991 Piet Van Avermaet Van Avermaet, Piet Piet Van Avermaet 01 01 JB code bct.91.03hor 06 10.1075/bct.91.03hor 41 64 24 Article 3 01 04 Language regimes and acts of citizenship in multilingual Luxembourg Language regimes and acts of citizenship in multilingual Luxembourg 1 A01 01 JB code 285289995 Kristine Horner Horner, Kristine Kristine Horner 01 01 JB code bct.91.04kha 06 10.1075/bct.91.04kha 65 88 24 Article 4 01 04 `They look into our lips' ‘They look into our lips’ 01 04 Negotiation of the citizenship ceremony as authoritative discourse Negotiation of the citizenship ceremony as authoritative discourse 1 A01 01 JB code 165289996 Kamran Khan Khan, Kamran Kamran Khan 2 A01 01 JB code 463289997 Adrian Blackledge Blackledge, Adrian Adrian Blackledge 01 01 JB code bct.91.05wil 06 10.1075/bct.91.05wil 89 112 24 Article 5 01 04 Linguistic citizenship Linguistic citizenship 01 04 Language and politics in postnational modernities Language and politics in postnational modernities 1 A01 01 JB code 321289998 Quentin E. Williams Williams, Quentin E. Quentin E. Williams 2 A01 01 JB code 609289999 Christopher Stroud Stroud, Christopher Christopher Stroud 01 01 JB code bct.91.06mil 06 10.1075/bct.91.06mil 113 136 24 Article 6 01 04 Sexual cityzenship Sexual cityzenship 01 04 Discourses, spaces and bodies at Joburg Pride 2012 Discourses, spaces and bodies at Joburg Pride 2012 1 A01 01 JB code 479290000 Tommaso M. Milani Milani, Tommaso M. Tommaso M. Milani 01 01 JB code bct.91.07wee 06 10.1075/bct.91.07wee 137 160 24 Article 7 01 04 The party's over? The party’s over? 01 04 Singapore politics and the `new normal' Singapore politics and the ‘new normal’ 1 A01 01 JB code 379290001 Lionel Wee Wee, Lionel Lionel Wee 01 01 JB code bct.91.08ind 06 10.1075/bct.91.08ind 161 162 2 Article 8 01 04 Index Index 01 JB code JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 01 JB code JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 https://benjamins.com Amsterdam NL 00 John Benjamins Publishing Company Marketing Department / Karin Plijnaar, Pieter Lamers onix@benjamins.nl 04 01 00 20170609 C 2017 John Benjamins D 2017 John Benjamins 02 WORLD 13 15 9789027242792 WORLD 03 01 JB 17 Google 03 https://play.google.com/store/books 21 01 00 Unqualified price 00 85.00 EUR 01 00 Unqualified price 00 71.00 GBP 01 00 Unqualified price 00 128.00 USD 634017765 03 01 01 JB code JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code BCT 91 Eb 15 9789027265166 06 10.1075/bct.91 13 LCCN 2017038891 00 EA E107 10 01 JB code BCT 02 1874-0081 02 91.00 01 02 Benjamins Current Topics Benjamins Current Topics 11 01 JB code jbe-all 01 02 Full EBA collection (ca. 4,200 titles) 11 01 JB code jbe-2017 01 02 2017 collection (152 titles) 05 02 2017 collection 01 01 Language and Citizenship Broadening the agenda Language and Citizenship: Broadening the agenda 1 B01 01 JB code 60283378 Tommaso M. Milani Milani, Tommaso M. Tommaso M. Milani University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/60283378 01 eng 11 168 03 03 v 03 00 162 03 01 23 306.44/9 03 2017 P119.3 04 Language and languages--Political aspects. 04 Discourse analysis--Political aspects. 04 Language policy. 04 Nationalism. 04 Citizenship. 10 LAN009040 12 CFG 24 JB code LIN.DISC Discourse studies 24 JB code LIN.LAPO Language policy 24 JB code LIN.PRAG Pragmatics 01 06 02 00 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). 03 00 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 Journal of Language and Politics 14:3 (2015). 01 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/bct.91.png 01 01 D502 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027242792.jpg 01 01 D504 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027242792.tif 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/bct.91.hb.png 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/bct.91.png 02 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/bct.91.hb.png 03 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/bct.91.hb.png 01 01 JB code bct.91.01mil 06 10.1075/bct.91.01mil 1 16 16 Article 1 01 04 Language and citizenship Language and citizenship 01 04 Broadening the agenda Broadening the agenda 1 A01 01 JB code 463289987 Tommaso M. Milani Milani, Tommaso M. Tommaso M. Milani 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/463289987 01 eng 03 00 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 multivocal, material, and affective semiotic resources. 01 01 JB code bct.91.02pul 06 10.1075/bct.91.02pul 17 40 24 Article 2 01 04 Integration in Flanders (Belgium) x Citizenship as achievement Integration in Flanders (Belgium) – Citizenship as achievement 01 04 How intertwined are `citizenship' and `integration' in Flemish language policies? How intertwined are ‘citizenship’ and ‘integration’ in Flemish language policies? 1 A01 01 JB code 429289990 Reinhilde Pulinx Pulinx, Reinhilde Reinhilde Pulinx 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/429289990 2 A01 01 JB code 718289991 Piet Van Avermaet Van Avermaet, Piet Piet Van Avermaet 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/718289991 01 eng 03 00 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 ‘citizenship as achievement’. 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 ‘true citizens’. 01 01 JB code bct.91.03hor 06 10.1075/bct.91.03hor 41 64 24 Article 3 01 04 Language regimes and acts of citizenship in multilingual Luxembourg Language regimes and acts of citizenship in multilingual Luxembourg 1 A01 01 JB code 285289995 Kristine Horner Horner, Kristine Kristine Horner 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/285289995 01 eng 03 00 Linked to global processes and the reconfigurations of ‘outer’ and ‘inner’ 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 la nationalité luxembourgeoise ‘Luxembourgish nationality’ 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. 01 01 JB code bct.91.04kha 06 10.1075/bct.91.04kha 65 88 24 Article 4 01 04 `They look into our lips' ‘They look into our lips’ 01 04 Negotiation of the citizenship ceremony as authoritative discourse Negotiation of the citizenship ceremony as authoritative discourse 1 A01 01 JB code 165289996 Kamran Khan Khan, Kamran Kamran Khan 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/165289996 2 A01 01 JB code 463289997 Adrian Blackledge Blackledge, Adrian Adrian Blackledge 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/463289997 01 eng 03 00 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, ‘W’, through the naturalisation process in the UK. W is a migrant Yemeni at the end of the naturalisation process. Bakhtin’s notion of “ideological becoming” offers an analytic orientation into how competing discourses may operate. This article focuses on the role of what Bakhtin describes as “authoritative discourse” 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. 01 01 JB code bct.91.05wil 06 10.1075/bct.91.05wil 89 112 24 Article 5 01 04 Linguistic citizenship Linguistic citizenship 01 04 Language and politics in postnational modernities Language and politics in postnational modernities 1 A01 01 JB code 321289998 Quentin E. Williams Williams, Quentin E. Quentin E. Williams 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/321289998 2 A01 01 JB code 609289999 Christopher Stroud Stroud, Christopher Christopher Stroud 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/609289999 01 eng 03 00 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 linguistic citizenship 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. 01 01 JB code bct.91.06mil 06 10.1075/bct.91.06mil 113 136 24 Article 6 01 04 Sexual cityzenship Sexual cityzenship 01 04 Discourses, spaces and bodies at Joburg Pride 2012 Discourses, spaces and bodies at Joburg Pride 2012 1 A01 01 JB code 479290000 Tommaso M. Milani Milani, Tommaso M. Tommaso M. Milani 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/479290000 01 eng 03 00 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. 01 01 JB code bct.91.07wee 06 10.1075/bct.91.07wee 137 160 24 Article 7 01 04 The party's over? The party’s over? 01 04 Singapore politics and the `new normal' Singapore politics and the ‘new normal’ 1 A01 01 JB code 379290001 Lionel Wee Wee, Lionel Lionel Wee 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/379290001 01 eng 03 00 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’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’s failure to examine carefully the communicative modes of engagement between the government and the citizenry. 01 01 JB code bct.91.08ind 06 10.1075/bct.91.08ind 161 162 2 Article 8 01 04 Index Index 01 eng 01 JB code JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 01 JB code JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/bct.91 Amsterdam NL 00 John Benjamins Publishing Company Marketing Department / Karin Plijnaar, Pieter Lamers onix@benjamins.nl 04 01 00 20170609 C 2017 John Benjamins D 2017 John Benjamins 02 WORLD 13 15 9789027242792 WORLD 09 01 JB 3 John Benjamins e-Platform 03 https://jbe-platform.com 29 https://jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027265166 21 01 00 Unqualified price 02 85.00 EUR 01 00 Unqualified price 02 71.00 GBP GB 01 00 Unqualified price 02 128.00 USD 830017764 03 01 01 JB code JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code BCT 91 Hb 15 9789027242792 06 10.1075/bct.91 13 2017012868 00 BB 08 445 gr 10 01 JB code BCT 02 1874-0081 02 91.00 01 02 Benjamins Current Topics Benjamins Current Topics 01 01 Language and Citizenship Broadening the agenda Language and Citizenship: Broadening the agenda 1 B01 01 JB code 60283378 Tommaso M. Milani Milani, Tommaso M. Tommaso M. Milani University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/60283378 01 eng 11 168 03 03 v 03 00 162 03 01 23 306.44/9 03 2017 P119.3 04 Language and languages--Political aspects. 04 Discourse analysis--Political aspects. 04 Language policy. 04 Nationalism. 04 Citizenship. 10 LAN009040 12 CFG 24 JB code LIN.DISC Discourse studies 24 JB code LIN.LAPO Language policy 24 JB code LIN.PRAG Pragmatics 01 06 02 00 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). 03 00 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 Journal of Language and Politics 14:3 (2015). 01 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/bct.91.png 01 01 D502 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027242792.jpg 01 01 D504 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027242792.tif 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/bct.91.hb.png 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/bct.91.png 02 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/bct.91.hb.png 03 00 03 01 01 D503 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/bct.91.hb.png 01 01 JB code bct.91.01mil 06 10.1075/bct.91.01mil 1 16 16 Article 1 01 04 Language and citizenship Language and citizenship 01 04 Broadening the agenda Broadening the agenda 1 A01 01 JB code 463289987 Tommaso M. Milani Milani, Tommaso M. Tommaso M. Milani 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/463289987 01 eng 03 00 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 multivocal, material, and affective semiotic resources. 01 01 JB code bct.91.02pul 06 10.1075/bct.91.02pul 17 40 24 Article 2 01 04 Integration in Flanders (Belgium) x Citizenship as achievement Integration in Flanders (Belgium) – Citizenship as achievement 01 04 How intertwined are `citizenship' and `integration' in Flemish language policies? How intertwined are ‘citizenship’ and ‘integration’ in Flemish language policies? 1 A01 01 JB code 429289990 Reinhilde Pulinx Pulinx, Reinhilde Reinhilde Pulinx 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/429289990 2 A01 01 JB code 718289991 Piet Van Avermaet Van Avermaet, Piet Piet Van Avermaet 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/718289991 01 eng 03 00 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 ‘citizenship as achievement’. 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 ‘true citizens’. 01 01 JB code bct.91.03hor 06 10.1075/bct.91.03hor 41 64 24 Article 3 01 04 Language regimes and acts of citizenship in multilingual Luxembourg Language regimes and acts of citizenship in multilingual Luxembourg 1 A01 01 JB code 285289995 Kristine Horner Horner, Kristine Kristine Horner 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/285289995 01 eng 03 00 Linked to global processes and the reconfigurations of ‘outer’ and ‘inner’ 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 la nationalité luxembourgeoise ‘Luxembourgish nationality’ 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. 01 01 JB code bct.91.04kha 06 10.1075/bct.91.04kha 65 88 24 Article 4 01 04 `They look into our lips' ‘They look into our lips’ 01 04 Negotiation of the citizenship ceremony as authoritative discourse Negotiation of the citizenship ceremony as authoritative discourse 1 A01 01 JB code 165289996 Kamran Khan Khan, Kamran Kamran Khan 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/165289996 2 A01 01 JB code 463289997 Adrian Blackledge Blackledge, Adrian Adrian Blackledge 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/463289997 01 eng 03 00 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, ‘W’, through the naturalisation process in the UK. W is a migrant Yemeni at the end of the naturalisation process. Bakhtin’s notion of “ideological becoming” offers an analytic orientation into how competing discourses may operate. This article focuses on the role of what Bakhtin describes as “authoritative discourse” 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. 01 01 JB code bct.91.05wil 06 10.1075/bct.91.05wil 89 112 24 Article 5 01 04 Linguistic citizenship Linguistic citizenship 01 04 Language and politics in postnational modernities Language and politics in postnational modernities 1 A01 01 JB code 321289998 Quentin E. Williams Williams, Quentin E. Quentin E. Williams 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/321289998 2 A01 01 JB code 609289999 Christopher Stroud Stroud, Christopher Christopher Stroud 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/609289999 01 eng 03 00 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 linguistic citizenship 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. 01 01 JB code bct.91.06mil 06 10.1075/bct.91.06mil 113 136 24 Article 6 01 04 Sexual cityzenship Sexual cityzenship 01 04 Discourses, spaces and bodies at Joburg Pride 2012 Discourses, spaces and bodies at Joburg Pride 2012 1 A01 01 JB code 479290000 Tommaso M. Milani Milani, Tommaso M. Tommaso M. Milani 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/479290000 01 eng 03 00 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. 01 01 JB code bct.91.07wee 06 10.1075/bct.91.07wee 137 160 24 Article 7 01 04 The party's over? The party’s over? 01 04 Singapore politics and the `new normal' Singapore politics and the ‘new normal’ 1 A01 01 JB code 379290001 Lionel Wee Wee, Lionel Lionel Wee 07 https://benjamins.com/catalog/persons/379290001 01 eng 03 00 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’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’s failure to examine carefully the communicative modes of engagement between the government and the citizenry. 01 01 JB code bct.91.08ind 06 10.1075/bct.91.08ind 161 162 2 Article 8 01 04 Index Index 01 eng 01 JB code JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 01 JB code JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/bct.91 Amsterdam NL 00 John Benjamins Publishing Company Marketing Department / Karin Plijnaar, Pieter Lamers onix@benjamins.nl 04 01 00 20170609 C 2017 John Benjamins D 2017 John Benjamins 02 WORLD WORLD US CA MX 09 01 JB 1 John Benjamins Publishing Company +31 20 6304747 +31 20 6739773 bookorder@benjamins.nl 01 https://benjamins.com 21 67 30 01 00 Unqualified price 02 JB 1 02 85.00 EUR 02 00 Unqualified price 02 71.00 01 Z 0 GBP GB US CA MX 01 01 JB 2 John Benjamins Publishing Company +1 800 562-5666 +1 703 661-1501 benjamins@presswarehouse.com 01 https://benjamins.com 21 67 30 01 00 Unqualified price 02 JB 1 02 128.00 USD