Double Minoritisation: Intragroup Domination and Cultural Hegemony

Autor:	Georges Duquette
Rok vydání:	2001
Předmět:	Linguistics and Language First language Foreign language Modern language Lingua franca Language and Linguistics Linguistics Education Language transfer Sociology of language Sociology Minority language computer Language policy computer.programming_language
Zdroj:	Language, Culture and Curriculum. 14:98-111
ISSN:	1747-7573 0790-8318
DOI:	10.1080/07908310108666615
Popis:	Many authors have written about language dominance between groups, but little has been said about dominance within groups. The following paper is a reflective essay upon within-group dominance in minority language settings. For instance, in Canada, there exists not one, but two homogeneous majority language groups who are competing for the integration and ultimate assimilation of minority language, bilingual populations. For years, minority language, bilingual populations whose mother tongue is French have experienced difficulty in developing and defining their own identity, cultural and language skills. They have worked to escape the dominating influence of monolingual English speakers only to find their organisations and institutions caught under the influence of a French-speaking elite which, because it is in a position of power, imposes its own values, its identity, and its cultural heritage upon the larger bilingual minority language population. The result has been an alienation and an increase in th...
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