Oral Presentation Session

Reviewed by: Society for Linguistic Anthropology

Primary Theme: Identity and Equity

Secondary Theme: The Political

(5-0140) Language Use without Proficiency: Language Ideology, Metalinguistic Community and Ethnolinguistic Infusion

Proficient use is often considered the ultimate goal of language pedagogy, especially in lesser-used and heritage language contexts. This panel will examine alternative approaches to language use where proficiency is not the ultimate goal; instead, language is a tool for building community, forging ethnic or religious identity or achieving political and social recognition. Participants will draw upon a variety of theoretical concepts including Language Ideology, Avineri’s concept of Metalinguistic Community and Benor’s Ethnolinguistic Infusion.

Discussant(s)

• Netta Avineri

  Associate Professor
  Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey

Presenter(s)

• Sarah Benor

  Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies
  Hebrew Union College

Organizer(s)

• Jesse Harasta

  Cazenovia College

Chair(s)

• Jesse Harasta

  Cazenovia College

Presenter(s)

• Jesse Harasta

  Cazenovia College

• Sandra Keller

  Instructional Assistant Professor of French
  Illinois State University

• Elizabeth Kickham

  Visiting Scholar
  University of Arizona

• Jing Lei

  Associate Professor
  State University of New York, Oswego

• Jessica Nelson

  Post Doctoral Researcher/Instructor
  University of Arizona

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM - 8:15 AM

  Ethnolinguistic Infusion: Hebrew at American Jewish Summer Camps
  Sarah Bunin Benor – Hebrew Union College
• 8:15 AM - 8:30 AM

  Utilization of Ethnolinguistic Infusion in the Construction of Metalinguistic Community: An Example from the Kernewek (Cornish) language of Britain
  Jesse O. Harasta – Cazenovia College
• 8:30 AM - 8:45 AM

  “I Didn't Know It Was a Language Back Then”: Minority Language Advocacy and the Ideological Value of Recognition among Users of Gallo in Brittany
  Sandra Keller – Illinois State University
• 8:45 AM - 9:00 AM

  Re-framing Success: Language Awareness and Affinity in Choctaw Community Language Classes
  Elizabeth A. Kickham – University of Arizona
• 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM

  Language Ideology and Ethnic Identification among Chinese American Adolescents
  Jing Lei – State University of New York, Oswego
• 9:15 AM - 9:30 AM

  Everyday Hãhãhãe: Semiotic Repertoires of an Awakening Language
  Jessica F. Nelson – University of Arizona
• 9:30 AM - 9:45 AM

  Discussion
  Netta Avineri – Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey