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.

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教育机构对新闻发言人的抵制和适应：来自爱沙尼亚的两个故事

“新演讲者”一词最近出现，是社会语言学家的一种尝试，不仅是为了理解在当代社会中可以找到的不同类型的演讲者概况，而且是为了了解在特定社会中成为合法演讲者的潜在过程。在本文中，我们结合了爱沙尼亚两所教育机构的两项研究的结果，以了解说话者在学习和使用爱沙尼亚语方面的语言态度和经验。我们专注于最近抵达该国的国际社会成员。我们的结果表明，这些演讲者在两种典型话语之间波动，我们将其广泛称为对新闻演讲者的“抵抗”和“适应”。