Errors or identity markers? A survey study on the use of and attitudes towards finlandisms and fennicisms in Finland Swedish

This study examines the use of and attitudes towards finlandisms and fennicisms in Finland Swedish. Finlandisms are words or structures typical of the Swedish variety spoken in Finland, while fennicisms are a category of finlandisms for which the source language is Finnish. Fennicisms are often discussed in context of Finnish influence and consequent Finland Swedish language loss, suggesting that the use of these features in Swedish is stigmatised. The study analyses survey responses from 126 Finland Swedish individuals in order to investigate the use of and perceptions regarding fennicisms. The responses indicate that although finlandisms and, in particular, fennicisms are often seen as erroneous, they can also be used to indicate a uniquely Finland Swedish linguistic identity. Additionally, responses regarding fennicisms provide examples of previously overlooked Finnish loanwords, while also indicating that loanwords with origins in other languages are often misidentified as stemming from Finnish. The implications of these findings are discussed.

Cultural Maintenance in the Face of Language Shift- Young Sindhi Muslims in Karachi, Pakistan

The Sindhi language, a descendent of a pre-Vedic Prakit language is the most widely spoken language in South Asia. Sindhi speech community comprises both Muslims, and Hindus which have distinct cultural and religious practices, yet they are socially connected because of the geographical link with their land. However, due to the partitioning of the Indian sub-continent, many Sindhi Hindus migrated to India, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, and many other countries. There has not only been an external diaspora but within Pakistan, there has also been an internal diaspora of younger Sindhi Muslims who have moved to cities like Karachi, Hyderabad, and Sukkur to pursue tertiary education. These young speakers have acquired and learned the dominant languages Urdu and English as their second and third languages while shifting away from their native Sindhi language. This study investigates the identity markers which have enabled them to retain their Sindhiness[1]. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 male and female young Sindhis and shadow observation of three participants in Karachi. The analysis shows that young Sindhi speakers have a high sense of group solidarity with their community and retain the use of culturally loaded identity markers which include naming patterns, cuisine, dressing, music, customs, rituals, social values, and networking. According to Fishman (1996), there is a deep relationship between language and culture. Despite a shift away from the habitual use of the Sindhi language these respondents have maintained their cultural values and norms. Keywords: cultural maintenance, language shift, Sindhi community, Karachi

Strategi Kesantunan Positif dan Negatif dalam Tindak Tutur Direktif di Lingkungan Keluarga (The Study of Directive Positive and Negative Politeness Strategy in The Family Environment)

Penelitian ini bertujuan mendeskripsikan strategi kesantunan positif dan negatif dalam bentuk direktif di lingkungan keluarga. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif kualitatif dengan model analisis interaktif Miles Huberman. Melalui penelitian ini ditemukan delapan belas data yang diklasifikasikan, dua belas data menunjukkan strategi kesantunan positif, yaitu 1) memberikan perhatian dan mengetahui kebutuhan atau keinginan; 2) memberikan pujian atau simpati lebih; 3) menggunakan penanda identitas dalam kelompok jargon atau slang; 4) mengupayakan kesepakatan; 5) menghindari ketidaksepakatan atau perbedaan; 6) melucu; 7) menunjukkan pengetahuan penutur dan mempertimbangkan keinginan penutur; 8) menawarkan, berjanji; 9) melibatkan mitra tutur dalam aktivitas tutur; 10) memberi atau meminta alasan; 11) bersikap optimis; 12) memberikan hadiah. Kemudian, enam data menunjukkan strategi kesantunan negatif, yaitu, 1) ungkapan secara tidak langsung; 2) bersikap pesimis; 3) meminimalkan paksaan atau tekanan; 4) memberikan penghormatan; 5) meminta maaf; dan 6) menggunakan bentuk pasif. This study aims to describe positive and negative impression strategies in the form of directives in the family environment. This research is a qualitative descriptive using Miles Huberman's interactive model. The results found eighteen data classified, twelve data showed a positive impression strategy that is 1) give attention and know the needs or desires, 2) give more praise or sympathy, 3) use identity markers in groups of jargon or slang, 4) seek agreement, 5) avoid disagreements or differences, 6) funny, 7) show knowledge of speakers and consider the wishes of speakers, 8) offer, promise, 9) Involve speech partners in speech activities , 10) give or ask for reasons, 11) be optimistic, 12) give gifts. Then six data showed negative impression strategies including 1) Indirect expressions, 2) being pessimistic, 3) minimizing coercion or pressure, 4) paying homage, 5) apologizing, 6) using passive forms.

The Bretons in French Politics: Regional Mobilization within and beyond the Central State

This article revisits the French region of Brittany on the basis of sustained empirical research over a 25-year period. It identifies the twin use of influence and identity as forming a key part of an accepted and largely diffused territorial repertoire, based on affirming distinctiveness for reasons of vertical linkage, as well as horizontal capacity building. This article explores the different facets of this model of territorial influence. The two twin dimensions concern: first, a well-versed mechanism of lobbying central institutions and actors to defend the Breton interest; second, the use of territorial identity markers to forward the regional cause, relying on social movements and a broad capacity for regional mobilization. Within this overarching context, the Breton case demonstrates an intelligent instrumental use of identity and identity markers, but mainstream Breton forces recognize that this only makes sense in the light of the national level of regulation and structure of opportunities. The logic of this position is to integrate the Brittany region into a national model of territorial integration, while playing up identity markers to secure the maximum benefit for the region.

REPRESENTASI GENDER DALAM BUKU TEKS BIPA

(Title: Gender Representation in The BIPA Textbook). This article aims to describe the gender representation in the Indonesian language for foreign speakers (BIPA) textbook. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative. The data were textual words and pictures that showing gender identity. Data were collected from BIPA textbook called Let's Speak Indonesian: Ayo Berbahasa Indonesia 1, which is well known as Ayo 1. Data gathered by reading the textbook, marking, classifying, and calculating gender identity markers. By using gender identity as the parameter, data were analyzed by reducing, presenting, calculating the percentage of gender identity representations, interpreting and explaining the representation of the gender. The findings revealed that the representation of female gender in the Ayo 1 textbook has a greater percentage than male gender where female’s identities are more highlighted than male identities. Thus, it is concluded that based on the percentage of visual gender, the Ayo 1 textbook represented the gender equality because it’s reflects less domination of male over female. This empirical evidence suggests that future BIPA textbook designers need to be aware of the importance of gender representation issues in developing BIPA textbook.Keywords: BIPA textbook, gender identity, gender representation

Who tweets climate change papers? Investigating publics of research through users’ descriptions

As social issues like climate change become increasingly salient, digital traces left by scholarly documents can be used to assess the resonance of scientific knowledge outside academia. Our research describes a method to assess the publics of research on Twitter by focusing on perceived users who shared highly tweeted climate change papers. It examines users through eight categories (academia, communication, political, professional, personal, organization, bots and publishers) associated to specific expressions in Twitter profile descriptions. Results indicate how diverse publics may be represented in the communication of scholarly documents on Twitter. Supplementing our word detection analysis with qualitative assessments of the results, we highlight how the presence of unique or multiple categorizations in textual Twitter descriptions provides evidence of the publics of research in specific contexts. The notion of perceived users allows to circumvent some issues about the construction of profiles through specific identity markers. Furthermore, the flexibility of our method provide means for research assessment that take into account the contextuality and plurality of publics involved on Twitter.

Parent Advocacy for Lives That Matter

This article draws parallels between the concept of “Black lives matter” and the efforts of caregivers to advocate for the value of the lives of their children who have disabilities. The authors identify three key concepts that undergird their argument: first, the concept of systemic bias as built in to the hierarchical valuing of different disabilities and the role of this bias in the valuing of parents’ voices; second, the ways in which stigmatized identity markers intersect to intensify bias; and third, the authors propose a broad interpretation of the meaning of parent advocacy in which service providers seek to work as co-advocates rather than as professional advisors. The authors review relevant literature on these themes and also draw on their own experiences as women of color who are parents of children with disabilities. They present their exploration of these topics against the backdrop of the convergence of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement, and call on epistemological assumptions and intersectionality to address the question of whether participants’ perspectives on racism should be considered as “truth.”

Making an Arab-Muslim Elite in Paris: The Pan-Maghrib Student Movement of the 1930s

This paper aims to clarify the scope and limitations of the ideals of Pan-Maghrib nationalism as developed by the Association of North African Muslim Students in France (AEMNAF) in the 1930s. The AEMNAF members’ inclination toward sciences and technology and their emphasis on conserving their mother culture made them consider Arabism and Islam their most important identity markers. Moreover, the AEMNAF created a sense of solidarity among Maghribi students in France and extended its social influence by cooperating with French and Mashriqi opinion leaders in Europe. However, the AEMNAF's narrow definition of Muslim-ness and its elitist nature led to the exclusion of Maghribis with French citizenship from the organization. The dualistic view of technology and culture in Maghribi nationalist thought also contributed to prioritizing Francophones over Arabophones, Muslims over non-Muslims, men over women, and students in the sciences over those in humanities.

Digital semaphore: Political discourse and identity negotiation through 4chan’s /pol/

This article explores the ways in which Blommaert’s (2018) notion of “light” identity markers in digital spaces shows—through specific features within /pol/—the “politically incorrect” board of the popular anonymous imageboard website 4chan. Here, flags attached to individual user posts work to frame interaction, which can both signal sincerity to a post with a national flag, or demonstrate a predilection for deception and trolling with what is known as a “memeflag.” Users implement these choices to alter performative aspects of interaction on /pol/ and the “audience” of other users offer their own evaluations, dismissals, and jokes in the face of these displays. This article posits that “light” identity features, or those located within specific communities, as opposed to more widespread or institutionalized aspects of identities create categories of awareness in 4chan that, in turn, shapes ideas of competence for those who have “lurked” long enough to glean it.

Identity Crisis and the Pseudo-Minorities in Bangladesh: Is the Right to Cultural Identity the Answer?

This article studies the process of minoritising members of majority groups through the use of narrow identity markers in heterogeneous countries like Bangladesh. Through historical analysis of the State’s influence on people's sense of cultural identity, it argues that when a group does not identify with State-imposed identity markers, they are alienated by the State and reduced to pseudo-minorities. Pseudo-minorities are groups of individuals who do not satisfy objective elements of minority identity, yet are discriminated against by the State in a minority-like manner. These individuals identify themselves as a group, and while they have formal equality, they lack de facto equality. These pseudo-minorities have no precise legal mechanism to redress such discrimination either under domestic or international law. The emerging right to cultural identity can become a tool to protect these groups.