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Language policy and linguistic landscaping in a contemporary blue-collar workplace in the Dutch–German borderland
Language Policy ( IF 1.4 ) Pub Date : 2021-01-21 , DOI: 10.1007/s10993-020-09572-y
Daan Hovens

This article argues that an expanded view of linguistic landscapes provides a useful metaphor for exploring language policies. Following this view, “language policy” is defined as “linguistic landscaping” (i.e., placing language policy mechanisms which, together with already placed mechanisms, construct a metaphorical landscape). The application of this landscaping metaphor has several advantages, as it provides a way to imagine language policy as a continuously ongoing construction process, and as it provides a way to imagine the historical layers of a landscape, the overlap and connections between different landscapes, and the complex hierarchical positions within a landscape. The article is based on linguistic-ethnographic fieldwork in a metal foundry in the Dutch province of Limburg, within walking distance from the Dutch–German border. Specifically, it discusses why a group of senior production workers from Limburg were dissatisfied with the linguistically diverse landscape that had emerged in the foundry over time, even though the foundry’s management tried to place Dutch-speaking workers in the company’s sociolinguistic norm centre. Confirming the usefulness of the landscaping metaphor, the article shows that a full consideration of diverse historical and contemporary acts of both linguistic and semiotic landscaping helps explain why these workers experienced that their position in the foundry had become peripheralised over time. In conclusion, the article calls for more attention to the complex human experience, rather than just the detection, of sociolinguistic inequalities.



中文翻译:

荷兰-德国边境地区当代蓝领工作场所的语言政策和语言环境美化

本文认为,对语言环境的扩展视野为探索语言政策提供了有用的隐喻。按照这种观点,“语言政策”被定义为“语言环境美化”(即,放置语言政策机制,该机制与已经放置的机制一起构成隐喻的景观)。这种美化环境隐喻的应用具有多个优势,因为它提供了一种将语言策略想象为持续进行的构建过程的方式,并且提供了一种想象景观的历史层次,不同景观之间的重叠和联系的方式,以及景观中复杂的层次结构位置。本文基于荷兰林堡省一家金属铸造厂的语言人种学实地考察,距离荷兰-德国边界仅几步之遥。具体地说,它讨论了为什么一群来自林堡的高级生产工人不满意随着时间的推移出现在铸造厂中的各种语言,尽管铸造厂的管理层试图将讲荷兰语的工人安置在公司的社会语言规范中心。文章确认了美化隐喻的有用性,表明充分考虑了语言和符号学美化的各种历史和当代行为,有助于解释为什么这些工人经历了他们在铸造厂的地位随着时间的流逝而变得边缘化的情况。总之,本文呼吁更多地关注复杂的人类经验,而不仅仅是社会语言不平等的发现。它讨论了为什么一群来自林堡的高级生产工人对随着时间的推移出现在代工厂中的语言多样化格局不满意,即使代工厂的管理层试图将讲荷兰语的工人置于公司的社会语言规范中心。文章确认了美化隐喻的有用性,表明充分考虑了语言和符号学美化的各种历史和当代行为,有助于解释为什么这些工人经历了他们在铸造厂的地位随着时间的流逝而变得边缘化的情况。总之,本文呼吁更多地关注复杂的人类经历,而不仅仅是社会语言不平等的发现。它讨论了为什么一群来自林堡的高级生产工人对随着时间的推移出现在代工厂中的语言多样化格局不满意,即使代工厂的管理层试图将讲荷兰语的工人置于公司的社会语言规范中心。文章确认了美化隐喻的有用性,表明充分考虑了语言和符号学美化的各种历史和当代行为,有助于解释为什么这些工人经历了他们在铸造厂的地位随着时间的流逝而变得边缘化的情况。总之,本文呼吁更多地关注复杂的人类经历,而不仅仅是社会语言不平等的发现。即使该铸造厂的管理层试图将讲荷兰语的工人安置在该公司的社会语言规范中心中。文章确认了美化隐喻的有用性,表明充分考虑了语言和符号学美化的各种历史和当代行为,有助于解释为什么这些工人经历了他们在铸造厂的地位随着时间的流逝而变得边缘化的情况。总之,本文呼吁更多地关注复杂的人类经历,而不仅仅是社会语言不平等的发现。即使该铸造厂的管理层试图将讲荷兰语的工人安置在该公司的社会语言规范中心中。文章确认了美化隐喻的有用性,表明充分考虑了语言和符号学美化的各种历史和当代行为,有助于解释为什么这些工人经历了他们在铸造厂的地位随着时间的流逝而变得边缘化的情况。总之,本文呼吁更多地关注复杂的人类经历,而不仅仅是社会语言不平等的发现。该文章表明,对语言和符号学美化的各种历史和当代行为的充分考虑有助于解释为什么这些工人经历了他们在铸造厂的地位随着时间的流逝而变得边缘化的情况。总之,本文呼吁更多地关注复杂的人类经历,而不仅仅是社会语言不平等的发现。该文章表明,对语言和符号学美化的各种历史和当代行为的充分考虑有助于解释为什么这些工人经历了他们在铸造厂的地位随着时间的流逝而变得边缘化的情况。总之,本文呼吁更多地关注复杂的人类经验,而不仅仅是社会语言不平等的发现。

更新日期:2021-01-21
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