Sins of the Fathers SS20 P Brannick FINAL 1766_1392800784.pdf

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Co(n)text:Bolzano-Bozen through Time & Space 1

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Here & Now: Where is

Bozen-Bolzano?

-Alto Adige

City of Bolzano-Bozen

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Co(n)text : Bolzano-Bozen through Time & Space 2

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Austro-Hungarian Empire c. 1900(Adpated from Sheppard 1911)

Then & There: Where was

Bozen-Bolzano?

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Co(n)text : Bozen-Bolzano through Time & Space 3

Demography 1900 to the Present

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Residents make legal declaration of belonging to &/or aggregationwith German-/Italian-/Ladin-speaking minority language groups.

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The Research Question(s)

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BilingualEducation

BilingualPlace

Names

FascistMonuments

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PD & SVP: preliminaryagreement reached on

multilingualismTommasini & Theiner: Working Groupon language learning. Monuments:ahead with the disempowering andhistoricizing. Agreement also ontoponymy.

BOLZANO. Working groups on languagelearning and fiscal federalism. Shared solutionsfor toponymy and monuments from the fascistepoch. This is the result of the meetingbetween the leaders of PD [Italian]and SVP[German], with the aim of strengtheningunderstanding between the two parties after

the sharp disputes over identity issues.

LAltoAdige 1stMarch 2011 (my trans.)

? Pathfinder:What (on Earth) is

going on in Bozen-Bolzano?!

*Rich Points*Agar (1996:31)

? Emerged from Data:What does

bi-/multilingualism meanin Bozen-

Bolzano?

*Methodological Rich Points*

Hornberger (2013:102)

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Nexus Analysis Re-imagined 1

Itineraries NOT Cycles(After Scollon 2008)

c/f Rhizomes(Deleuze & Guattari 1987)

The nexus of practice Historical Bodies

Discourses in Place

Interaction Order

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Nexus Analysis

A form of ethnographythat

takessocial action as the

theoretical center of study(Scollon & Wong Scollon 2004:13)


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The nexus of practiceSOCIAL ACTION which alters

those historical trajectories

Nexus Analysis Re-imagined 2

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Polyglot

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Nexus Analysis

A form of ethnographythat

takessocial action as the

theoretical center of study(Scollon & Wong Scollon 2004:13)


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Engaging with Polygot: Parents for a Multilingual Life

MyNexus of Practice

Main aims:

Extension of bi-/multilingual

education

Recognition of mistilingui

children

Main Activities: Pressure Group

Support Group & Forum for

Like-minded Parents to Meet

Discussion Evenings withInvited Expert on Topical

Themes

Polyglot

My EngagementThree Phases:

Open Meetings Membership (inc.10 p.a. fee) Organising Committee

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Polyglot

toponymy an appropriation

by way of the name

there isnt space

for anyone else

mental horizonanother

perception of that place

another relationship with

that place

states that have occupied

territories have put names in their

own national [language] to markthe territory

people that are so attached tothe land no?

for the good and in the bad

but also the good no?

but this is a false

world for this isnt theworld to which I belong

no?

I can produce a little that

Germanic world

Data 1 Polyglot: Namen sind Namen

Giulio Romano DE ANON M

just as monuments were placed

to mark/signal the territory the

borders of the territory

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LAltoAdige 8thAug 2013

Data 2 Mountain

Path Signs:

Contesting ItalianPlace Names

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Carnival at Carnevale 2011

Contested Monolingual Signs

DecalingualSign

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Mussolini on Horseback

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Monumento alla Vittoria

PD & SVP: preliminaryagreement reached on

multilingualism

Monuments: ahead with the

disempowering andhistoricizing.

after the sharp disputes over identityissues.

LAltoAdige 1stMarch 2011 (my trans.)

Fascists

Monuments[GR]:just as monuments wereplaced to mark/signal the

territory the borders of the

territory

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Monumento alla Vittoria

A Geosemiotic Analysis(Scollon & Wong Scollon 2003)

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Geosemiotics: the in place meanings of signs and our actions inand among those discourses in place. (Scollon & Wong Scollon2003:1)

The interaction order(after Goffman)

Every utterance places us in some implied grouping[with] the rest ofthe world either to included in that grouping or excluded from it(Scollon & Wong Scolln 2003:45)

Visual semiotics the ways in which pictures (signs, images, graphics, texts,

photographs, paintings, and all the other combinations of these and

others) are produced as meaningful wholes . (Scollon & Wong Scollon2003:8)

relies crucially on an ethnographic understanding of the meanings ofthese systems within specific communities of practice. (Scollon &Scollon 2003:160)

Place semiotics [T]he central thesis of geosemiotics is that exactly whereon earth an

action takes place is an important part of its meaning. (Scollon &Wong Scollon 2003:19)

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Interaction OrderPlace Semiotics

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Visual Semiotics


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Synthesis

What does bilingualism mean in Bozen-Bolzano?

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Bilingual Education

Bilingual Place Names

Fascist Era MonumentsThe individual forms the environment, andthe environment forms the individual.

Nishida (1958:174)

Those who seek to defend a threatened

capitalare forced to conduct a total struggle

they cannot save the competence without

saving the market, i.e. all the social

conditions of the production and

reproductionof producers and consumers.Bourdieu (1977:651)

Production of Social Space

Lefebvre (1974[1991])

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Language as Identity

Mobilised in Hegemonic Struggle to

Dominate Social Space


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The Sins of the Fathers

Thank you!Questions?

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Further Reading- Agar (1996)Ethnography Reconstructed: the Professional Stranger at Fifteen. In M.

Agar (ed) The Professional Stanger,. Academic Press. New York

- Bourdieu, P (1977)The Economics of Linguistic Exchanges. Social Science

Information. 16:645-668

- Hornberger, N (2013) Negotiating Methodological Rich Points in the Ethnography of

Language Policy

- Lefebvre H (1991[1974]) The Production of Social Space. Blackwell. Maiden. Oxon.

Victoria

- Nishida, K (1958) Intelligibility & the Philosophy of Nothingness. East-West Center

Press. Honolulu- Scollon R (2008) Discourse Itineraries: Nine Processes of Resemiotization. In Bhatia

V K, Flowerdew J & Jones R H (eds) Advances in Discourse Studies. Routledge . Oxon.

New York

- Scollon R & Wong Scollon S (2003) Discourses in Place: Language in the Material

World. Routledge. London. New York

- Scollon R & Wong Scollon S (2004) Nexus Analysis: Discourse & the Emerging

Internet. Routledge. London. New York

- Silverstein, M & Urban, G (1996) The Natural History of Discourse. In Silverstein, M

& Urban, G (eds) Natural Histories of Discourse. University of Chicago Press. Chicago

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Data 1 Polyglot: Namen sind Namen 30thSept 2009Speaker Line English Translation Time

G R 7 names are names theres

8 that mountain

9 is called Peter

11 its a concept thats quite

13 from a romantic culture

14 that owes itself to the link for the population with the soil where it

lives uh

18 toponyms [laughs good-naturedly] as an expression of nature itself 0.09.33

19 that mountain was born in that was its called Pietro you cant

called it something else eh

22 now the perplexing thing in this position that

23 there isnt space for anyone else

25 if names are names and uh

27 hes always called his mountain Peter eh

28 in his mental horizon its not even foreseeable that there could be

someone else

30 that might have another perception of that place no? another

relationship with that place there[demonstrative]

33 effectively its a subject that is very much tied to

34 exclusion 0.10.35

37 toponymy is also an appropriation 0.10.39

38 by way of the name

39 of the territory

40 and it has always been this way in history

41 in history weve had eh uh42 states that have uh

43 occ occupied territories have put names in their own language na uh 0.10.53

44 national [language] to place a mark to

45 ma mark the territory

46 just as monuments were placed eh 0.11.04

47 to mark/signal the territory

48 the borders of the territory ehm

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DE ANON M 2-3 I can produce a little that uh Germanic world

3 that that they say this is that [inaud] er

4 this is that

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You [2ndprSingFormal]hypothesise this Mr Mayer[From Dolom letter]who is also in val DUltimaer

6 and there has always been this mo-mountain

7 that he called pi er Peter

8 and now someone comes calls it Pietro

IT ANON M 9 [talks over DE ANON) Monte Tramontan for

example

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DE ANON M 10 and and then says

11 but who who has ever called it that?

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he has nev hes never known a person

13 really

14 that thats called it that no?

15 So then he says

16 but this is a

17 false world for

18 this isnt the world to which I belong no?

19 and naturally this these se uh

20 some years ago I saw Wim Wenders at at the

[Bolzano] Film Club

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22 what struck you [most] about this South Tyrol

23 he said to them these people that are so attached

to the land no?

24 for the good and in the bad

25 but also the good no?

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Utterances and their types, that is, speechgenres, are the drive belts from the historyof society to the history of languageanutterance is not always followed

immediately by an articulated

response[s]ooner or later what is heardand actively understood will find its

response in the subsequent speech orbehavior of the listener. In most cases,genres of complex cultural communication

are intended precisely for this kind of

actively responsive understanding with

delayed action.

(Bakhtin 1986:65, 68 & 69, my emph)

the creation of intertextual relationshipsthrough genre simultaneously renders textsordered, unified, and bounded, on the onehand, and fragmented, heterogeneous, andopen-ended, on the other. Each dimensionof this process can be seen from both the

synchronic and the diachronic perspective...Invoking a genre thus creates indexical

connections that extend far beyond the

present setting of production or reception

thereby linking a particular act to other

times places and persons.(Bauman & Briggs 1992:147 my emph)

Language ideologies are positioned in, and subjectto, their social, political and historicalcontexts...[t]hey are multiple, and influenced bychanges at local, national, state and globallevelsIn

multilingual societies language choice

use and attitudes are intrinsically linked to

language ideologies relations of power political

arrangements and speakers identities. Identityoptions available to individuals at a given momentin history are subject to change, as are theideologies that legitimise and value particularidentities more than others.

(Blackledge 2005:32 & 35 my emph)

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Interlude: Circumferencing -The Sins of the Fathers

Polyglot

Mussolini/Hitler:

The Option (1938)UN Resolution

1497/XV (1960)

Pressure for

multilingual education

Tolomei

Nationalism

Irridentism

in what layers of

geopolitical discourse isit embedded ?(Scollon & Wong Scollon 2004:11)


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Synthesis

What does bilingualismmean in Bozen-Bolzano?

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From the Data (Remember: Co(n)text?)The discourse & social action of bilingualism during research process:

Bilingual Education

Bilingual Place Names

Fascist Era MonumentsThe individual forms the environment, and

the environment forms the individual.Nishida (1958:174)

Those who seek to defend a threatened

capitalare forced to conduct a total struggle

they cannot save the competence without

saving the market, i.e. all the social

conditions of the production and

reproductionof producers and consumers.Bourdieu (1977:651)

Production of Social SpaceLefebvre (1974[1991])

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