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Language & CitizenshipEdited by Tommaso M. Milani
[Journal of Language and Politics 14:3] 2015
► pp. 319–334
Language and citizenship
Broadening the agenda
Tommaso M. Milani | University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
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.
Keywords: acts, affect, citizenship, habitus, multivocality, status
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Citizenship: Status, Habitus, Acts
- 2.1Status, linguistic capital, and the reproduction of social inequality
- 2.2Habitus, heteroglossia, and the ambivalent life of authoritative discourse
- 2.3Acts of linguistic and bodily citizenship
- 2.4Instead of reaching consensus
- 3.Where To From Here?
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Published online: 21 August 2015
https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.14.3.01mil
https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.14.3.01mil
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