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Title: | From perceptual dialectology to perceptual multilingualism : a Hong Kong case study | Authors: | Albury, NJ Diaz, M |
Issue Date: | 2021 | Source: | Language awareness, 2021, v. 30, no. 2, p. 152-175 | Abstract: | This paper proposes perceptual multilingualism as a research interest within the broader folk linguistic enterprise. By drawing on the geolinguistic mapping tasks popular in perceptual dialectology–whereby participants are asked to draw and depict dialectal diversity in a given region–we show that perceptual multilingualism can elicit knowledge and reasoning in the community about linguistic diversity more broadly. To do this, we analysed and discussed 41 perceptual multilingualism maps produced by high school students in Hong Kong about societal multilingualism across the Hong Kong region. On the one hand, the maps allowed us to quantify which languages manifest in the youths’ metalinguistic awareness and where. On the other hand, we positioned the maps as discourses to be compared and analysed through a critical social theoretical lens. Doing so revealed implicit and contested power relations as they manifested in epistemic claims in dialectic relation to broader sociopolitical narratives in Hong Kong. This included Hong Kong’s contentious transition to governance by Beijing and the marginalisation of the blue-collar workforce. Beyond the empirical metalinguistic data, our paper shows that perceptual multilingualism can contribute to critical sociolinguistics by helping to reveal power relations, hegemonies and ideologies, and resistance. | Keywords: | Critical sociolinguistics Folk linguistics Hong Kong Metalinguistic awareness Perceptual multilingualism |
Publisher: | Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group | Journal: | Language awareness | ISSN: | 0965-8416 | EISSN: | 1747-7565 | DOI: | 10.1080/09658416.2021.1883636 | Rights: | © 2021 THE AUTHORS. Published by Elsevier BV on behalf of Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). The following publication Nathan John Albury & Max Diaz (2021) From perceptual dialectology to perceptual multilingualism: a Hong Kong case study, Language Awareness, 30:2, 152-175 is available at https://doi.org/10.1080/09658416.2021.1883636 |
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