35.2523, Diss: Anthropological Linguistics, Sociolinguistics; James Konrad Puchowski: "Intervention, Participation, Perception: Case Studies of Language Activism in Catalonia, Norway & Scotland"

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Date: 08-Aug-2023
From: James Konrad Puchowski [j.puchowski at ucl.ac.uk]
Subject: Dissertation Abstract


Institution: University of Edinburgh
Program: PhD Linguistics and English Language
Dissertation Status: Completed
Degree Date: 2023

Author: James Konrad Puchowski

Dissertation Title: Intervention, Participation, Perception: Case
Studies of Language Activism in Catalonia, Norway & Scotland

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Scots (sco)

Dissertation Director(s):

Dissertation Abstract:

This thesis brings together and contextualises three papers, each
examining a case-study of language activism. The corresponding
research project presents linguistic ethnographic and discourse
analytical research in the socio-political contexts of contemporary
Catalonia, Norway, and Scotland, examining metadiscourses of Catalan,
Norwegian Nynorsk, and Scots language activists, and touching also on
how these metadiscourses are embedded dynamically in wider social
talk.

Emerging out of this research project is a broader theoretical
discussion around existing definitions and approaches to document
language activism in language studies; insights are drawn from (1) an
observation of “non-native” Catalan language activists, (2) an
analysis of the extension of Norwegian Nynorsk activist metalanguage
to encompass Sámi and Kven language issues, and (3) an evaluation of
the role of linguists and other academics in the institutional
legitimation of the Scots language.

Drawing on theories and frameworks in linguistic anthropology and
sociocultural linguistics, the conclusions of this thesis offer a
springboard for further discussion regarding how language activism may
be both deconstructed as a linguistic idea, and viewed as instances of
metapragmatic intervention, without essentialising who can, or who
cannot, be a language activist within a given sociolinguistic context.



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