Chapter 5 Language trouble.s
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Nadia Louar
Abstract
Taking the French debates about inclusive writing as a starting point, I discuss the political and epistemological implications of language and national ideologies in contemporary France. I show how prescribed linguistic practices hinder French culture from thinking outside the universalist box and acknowledging its de facto cultural pluralism. Drawing on two episodes that propelled an important cultural shift, the Strauss-Kahn case (l’affaire DSK) and France’s backlash over #MeToo movements, I examine the restrictive cultural and linguistic frames that French elites, in particular, use to reinforce their hegemony and France’s patrimonial ideology.
Abstract
Taking the French debates about inclusive writing as a starting point, I discuss the political and epistemological implications of language and national ideologies in contemporary France. I show how prescribed linguistic practices hinder French culture from thinking outside the universalist box and acknowledging its de facto cultural pluralism. Drawing on two episodes that propelled an important cultural shift, the Strauss-Kahn case (l’affaire DSK) and France’s backlash over #MeToo movements, I examine the restrictive cultural and linguistic frames that French elites, in particular, use to reinforce their hegemony and France’s patrimonial ideology.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Chapter 1 Introduction 1
- Chapter 2 Discourse and ideology in French thought until Foucault and Pêcheux 21
- Chapter 3 Teaching French in Acadia: From a discourse of linguistic diversity to a standard ideology 45
- Chapter 4 Ideology and emancipation through the prism of performativity: Immolation and mottos of struggle as moments of popular counter-discourse 67
- Chapter 5 Language trouble.s 87
- Chapter 6 The ideological grounding of the new normal: Anti-discourse meets utopia 103
- Chapter 7 Hiding in plain sight: Methodological ideologies in discourse research in applied linguistics 117
- Chapter 8 Ideology in cognition and discourse 137
- Chapter 9 Licensing through English 157
- Chapter 10 Language ideologies and the translation of scholarly texts 179
- Chapter 11 Negotiating ideologies and the moral order in child protection social work 201
- Chapter 12 Challenging ideologies and fostering intercultural competence: The discourses of healthcare staff about linguistic and cultural barriers, interpreters, and mediators 223
- Chapter 13 Taking a corpus-based approach to investigating discourse and ideology in the language sciences 247
- Chapter 14 Afterword 273
- Index 285
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- Chapter 1 Introduction 1
- Chapter 2 Discourse and ideology in French thought until Foucault and Pêcheux 21
- Chapter 3 Teaching French in Acadia: From a discourse of linguistic diversity to a standard ideology 45
- Chapter 4 Ideology and emancipation through the prism of performativity: Immolation and mottos of struggle as moments of popular counter-discourse 67
- Chapter 5 Language trouble.s 87
- Chapter 6 The ideological grounding of the new normal: Anti-discourse meets utopia 103
- Chapter 7 Hiding in plain sight: Methodological ideologies in discourse research in applied linguistics 117
- Chapter 8 Ideology in cognition and discourse 137
- Chapter 9 Licensing through English 157
- Chapter 10 Language ideologies and the translation of scholarly texts 179
- Chapter 11 Negotiating ideologies and the moral order in child protection social work 201
- Chapter 12 Challenging ideologies and fostering intercultural competence: The discourses of healthcare staff about linguistic and cultural barriers, interpreters, and mediators 223
- Chapter 13 Taking a corpus-based approach to investigating discourse and ideology in the language sciences 247
- Chapter 14 Afterword 273
- Index 285
