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Can Schools Dispense with Standard Language? Some Unintended Consequences of Introducing Scots in a Scottish Primary School
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In: ISSN: 1055-1360 ; EISSN: 1548-1395 ; Journal of Linguistic Anthropology ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01413277 ; Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, 2015, 25, pp.25 - 42. ⟨10.1111/jola.12069⟩ (2015)
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International audience ; This article analyzes some unintended consequences of the introduction of Scots, Scotland's nonstandardized vernacular, in a primary school. I show that the lack of established definition of the language or standardization entails three different processes: first, indexical links are established between Scots and a number of social properties (amusement, lack of seriousness); second, the pupils are othered in a process that constructs them as speakers of Scots; third, that process is completed by the reversal of this latter proposition: what the children speak is Scots (and not English) because of their geographic (and covertly social) origin, locking them in an identity as speakers of nonstandard/substandard language. This analysis allows me to discuss this case in terms of circulation of linguistic authority within the classroom in view of the indeterminacy of a legitimate or generally accepted version of Scots. I conclude by reflecting upon the nature of standard languages, whose status positions them not as just another linguistic variety on a par with others, but as forms of speech whose legitimacy lies not (only) within speakers' identity but within representative institutions, hence their claim to neutrality and inclusiveness, however sub-verted this may be in reality. [nonstandard, education, Scotland, linguistic authority, legitimate speaker]
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[SHS.ANTHRO-SE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnology; [SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics; [SHS.SOCIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology; Education; language standardization; minority languages; Scotland
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URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/jola.12069
https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01413277
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Can Schools Dispense with Standard Language? Some Unintended Consequences of Introducing Scots in a Scottish Primary School
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In: ISSN: 1055-1360 ; EISSN: 1548-1395 ; Journal of Linguistic Anthropology ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01413277 ; Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, 2015, 25, pp.25 - 42. ⟨10.1111/jola.12069⟩ (2015)
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