Salö, Linus
Published in
International Journal of the Sociology of Language
This article explores upset reactions to purportedly deviant language use in the newsroom of the Swedish public service television company SVT. Adopting a historical gaze to contemporary struggles, it focuses on the news anchor Dina Haddad (an alias selected by me for the sake of anonymity) and the injurious, bigoted complaints she receives from de...
Vogl, Ulrike De Wilde, Truus
Published in
International Journal of the Sociology of Language
The aim of this article is twofold: first, we apply the concept of “Language Making” – which is introduced in this thematic issue – to the domain of foreign language learning and teaching. More specifically, we investigate the role of teachers, as well as other social actors in the domain of foreign language education, in the making of foreign lang...
Caron, Philippe Ayres-Bennett, Wendy
Published in
Histoire Epistémologie Langage
Dans cet article nous nous proposons d’utiliser les remarqueurs comme des révélateurs de la sensibilité normative en France, en nous intéressant particulièrement à deux domaines significatifs : d’une part, les zones de l’usage qui attirent le plus les remarqueurs et, d’autre part, l’énonciation des remarques comme un indice du rapport du scripteur ...
Duane Bernedo, Lucas John
This article explores the ideological consequences of recent language policy changes in the Balearic Islands, where Catalan and Castilian are the official languages. It will approach the intersection between minoritized language contexts and ideologies of standardization, focusing on negotiations of linguistic authority and linguistic differentiati...
Trapateau, Nicolas
John Walker is the first English lexicographer to provide a ‘critical’ pronouncing dictionary (1791) interspersed with his own critical notes on pronunciation. This paper identifies the phonological phenomena, whether praised or stigmatised, which are the targets of Walker’s qualifiers — for example, which syllable of the word vertigo should be str...
Annoni, Marco
Published in
Semiotica
The genealogy of lexicography represents an ideal standpoint to reveal how sign-making practices may shape cultural objects. In this paper I discuss the revolution that lexicography undertook during the nineteenth century, showing why this process required the availability of a specific set of concepts, and then how it led up to the emergence of ne...
Rodríguez Rodríguez, Carolina
This article reconstructs some aspects of semantics Hobbesian social perspective and analyzes its effect against the interpretation of the political situation in Colombia. This approach is not an anachronism, given that the political and semantic made by Thomas Hobbes constitute a valid theoretical framework for understanding the current circumstan...
