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Superdiversity perspective and the sociolinguistics of social media
2018
This chapter shows how the superdiversity perspective suggested in recent critical sociolinguistics provides the study of social media discourse and communication with a useful approach to conceptualizing and empirically investigating complex and multiple axes of diversity and difference in social media practices. It discusses recent work in sociolinguistics of social media, highlighting how social media practices illustrate many of the aspects of contemporary social life and communication that are considered symptomatic of superdiversity. It shows how research in this field has moved from viewing superdiversity as a quality or quantity characterizing specific places, spaces, groups and net…
Let the countdown begin — Aging experiences of young adults in countdown blogs
2012
Abstract This paper examines a particular blog phenomenon that has not yet received much attention: Countdown blogs which are written before a significant birthday (in this paper, it is the thirtieth birthday). The bloggers fill the remaining time, often a year, with the accomplishment of particular tasks, reflections on their lives or photo projects. In their blogs, the young adults demonstrate an age awareness that is often overlooked in aging studies. The paper argues that young adults use countdown blogs to cope with their aging experiences and, in doing so, they apply a particular economic rhetoric and emerge as entrepreneurs of themselves – an identity concept that Foucault presented …
Environmental activism as counter-hegemony? A comparative critical discourse analysis of self-representations of radical environmental organisations
2021
Działalność organizacji ekologicznych wiąże się z odrzucaniem zapewnień o wystarczających działaniach ochronnych i kwestionowaniem dominujących praktyk kulturowych. Jednak aby skutecznie mobilizować opinię publiczną, ruchy ekologiczne muszą prezentować się jako wiarygodne i akceptowalne, choć ich dążenia kwestionują wartości kultury hegemonicznej. Niniejsze studium to analiza porównawcza manifestów trzech radykalnych organizacji ekologicznych, Extinction Rebellion (UK) Deep Green Resistance (USA) i Pracowni na Rzecz Wszystkich Istot (Polska), pod kątem językowych, retorycznych i wizualnych strategii prezentacji wartości opozycyjnych do głównego nurtu kultury w kontekście kryzysu klimatyczne…
La reivindicació identitària en els narradors del Realisme Compromès de la postguerra
2017
The paper reviews the realistic and engagé movements that cover the European postwar years. And then it studies the parallel Catalan movement focusing on the problem of identity assertion in the narrative. In many of our narrators of this realism of complaint (Concepció G. Maluquer, Estanislau Torres, Víctor Mora and Joaquim Carbó) national commitment accompanyies social and political commitment. It is a peculiar trait that distinguishes our movement and gives the physiognomy of its own.
Latvijas Universitātes un Tallinas Universitātes krievu studentu piedalīšanās Latvijas un Igaunijas informatīvajā telpā
2019
Maģistra darbā tiek prezentēta jauna perspektīva par krievu studentu integrāciju Igaunijā un Latvijā, izvērtējot veidus, kādos viņi piedalās un tiek iesaistīti igauņu un latviešu valodas informācijas vidē. Padomju Savienības sabrukums izraisīja milzīgas pārmaiņas abu valstu sabiedrībā, un universitāšu studenti ir vieni no pirmajiem šo valstu iedzīvotājiem, kuri pilnībā izauguši, socializējušies un tapuši izglītoti atjaunotās neatkarības laikā. Darbā ir izmantota zinātniskā literatūra par nacionālo identitāti, informācijas vidi, kā arī sociolingvistisko un etnokulturālo situāciju Latvijā un Igaunijā. Tāpat, tika veiktas intervijas ar krievu studentiem Tallinas Universitātē un Latvijas Univer…
Tavoitteena vahva ja yhtenäinen kansa : historia ja kieli kansallisen identiteetin rakentamisen välineinä Pätsin aikakauden Virossa 1934-1940
2018
In this dissertation, I study national campaigns aimed at constructing Estonian national identity in 1934–1940. The campaigns were organized through the cooperation of Konstantin Päts’ authoritarian government and civil society. I focus on the folk art campaign and on the name changing campaign. The name changing campaign was the largest national project in Estonia, aiming at the Estonification of names. Initially, the campaign focused on changing individuals’ surnames and first names, but later also on changing the names of places, streets and properties. The name changing campaign had history political and language political dimensions. Through the folk art campaign, the state tried to af…
Serawit Bekele Debele, Locating Politics in Ethiopia’s Irreecha Ritual
2022
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“La feccia dell’Europa del Sud”. Razza e costruzione dell’identità etnica nella stampa italiana di New York (1890-1910)
2016
A partire dai primi anni di immigrazione di massa (1890), gli immigrati italiani furono sempre raffigurati nella stampa mainstream in associazione con la criminalità, in particolare la criminalità organizzata,. Le prime immagini dei nuovi arrivati visti come una minaccia per la sicurezza e la moralità americana, col progredire del nuovo secolo, si diffusero sempre di più cristallizzandosi nella mente degli americani e finendo per diventare le rappresentazioni predominanti degli immigrati italiani. La risposta delle comunità italiane di nuova formazione si trova sulla stampa italo-americana, che fornì immagini alternative con cui la comunità italiana potesse identificarsi e prospettive alt…
Ethnic and Religious Conflicts in France
2011
International audience; This chapter presents a detailed analysis of current and historical interethnic relations in France. Kamiejski, De Oliveira, and Guimond apply several theories in exploration of the variables related to the development of the existent ethnic tensions in this region. Policy models are also evaluated and considered as means of engendering harmony in the future. Discussion of the most recent and largest immigrant group to France, the Maghrebians, reveals several factors associated with increasing tensions including the large degree of assumed difference in values, religion, and culture. The authors recognize that France has set the stage for positive interethnic relatio…
Assessing the Performance of the Italian Translations of Modified MEIM, EIS and FESM Scales to Measure Ethnic Identity: A Case Study
2023
Measuring the ethnic identity of linguistic minorities is a research problem which can be tackled departing from a clear operational definition of the construct. This paper will present the performance of the Italian translations of various scales widely used in the relevant literature, which have been modified for the aims of this study and used in research conducted in 2016 in the ArberesheMunicipalities of Piana degli Albanesi and Santa Cristina Gela (Province of Palermo). These scales consist of modifications of the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure (MEIM), Ethnic Identity Scale (EIS) and Familial Ethnic Socialization Measure (FESM). The psychometric properties were analysed for all th…