Rethinking the Ideology of Language and Education from a Metrolingual Perspective (Keynote)
- Publisher:
- Association of Japanese Language Teachers in Europe e.V. (AJE)
- Publication Type:
- Chapter
- Citation:
- The Proceedings of the 24th Japanese Language Symposium in Europe, 2021, 2022, pp. 13-29
- Issue Date:
- 2022-06-08
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This paper mobilises metrolingualism to seek an alternative framework for understanding ‘Plurilingual and Pluricultural Competences (PPC)’ and ‘Competences for Democratic Culture (CDC)’. It proposes a new language ideology by reconsidering language in terms of semiotic assemblages, thus seeing linguistic resources as part of a wider constellation of things, people, history and places. Adopting a language modifier of “metro”, which represents space, metrolingualism avoids linguistic enumeration politics – language as a discrete, quantifiable and bounded property – as well as methodological individualism, whereby language, cognition, agency and identity are all seen as personal properties. Instead, it views language as an emergent property deriving as much from assemblages of multilingual, multimodal and multisensory semiotic resources (meaning potential resources) as from place, geopolitics, history and the culture of the city. This paper proposes that, due to its capacity to break down existing linguistic hierarchies and competency-based linguistic exclusionism, language education premised on the new metrolingual language ideology can assist in reducing social and linguistic inequality while simultaneously promoting democratic citizenship and ‘civic-mindedness’. Three questions will be explored – 1) What constitutes language? 2) Where does language reside? 3) What counts as competency? – to scrutinise the notions of PPC and CDC, both of which draw on methodological individualism.
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