Hostname: page-component-8448b6f56d-m8qmq Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-24T03:29:45.723Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Language, Place, and Heritage: Reflexive Cultural Luxembourgishness in Wisconsin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2011

Kristine Horner
Kristine Horner*
Affiliation:
The University of Sheffield
*
The University of Sheffield, Department of Germanic Studies, School of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Jessop West, 1 Upper Hanover Street, Sheffield S3 7RA, UK, [k.horner@sheffield.ac.uk]
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

The rapid movement of people and information on a global scale has contributed to the renegotiation of ethnicity and group membership, especially as new networks have been formed across large geographical distances. The focus here is on Belgium, Wisconsin for two interrelated reasons: one of the largest concentrations of people of Luxembourgish descent in the United States is domiciled in that area; moreover, the grand opening celebration of the Luxembourg American Cultural Center took place there in 2010. Taking an ethnographically grounded geosemiotic approach, this paper provides an analysis of Luxembourgish linguistic and cultural heritage displays in Belgium, Wisconsin and explores how localized practices are being renegotiated in the context of augmented transatlantic cooperation.*

Type
ARTICLES
Information
Journal of Germanic Linguistics , Volume 23 , Special Issue 4: Germanic Languages and Migration in North America , December 2011 , pp. 375 - 400
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Germanic Linguistics 2011

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

Barth, Frederik. 1969. Introduction. Ethnic groups and boundaries: The social organization of culture difference, ed. by Barth, Frederik, 9–38. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.Google Scholar
Blommaert, Jan. 2005. Discourse: A critical introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bodnar, John. 1992. Remaking America: Public memory, commemoration, and patriotism in the twentieth century. Princeton: Princeton University Press.Google Scholar
Coupland, Nikolas. 2003a. Introduction: Sociolinguistics and globalization. Journal of Sociolinguistics 7. 465–472.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Coupland, Nikolas. 2003b. Sociolinguistic authenticities. Journal of Sociolinguistics 7. 417–431.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Coupland, Nikolas, & Garrett, Peter. 2010. Linguistic landscapes, discursive frames, and metacultural performance: The case of Welsh Patagonia. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 205. 7–36.Google Scholar
Ensch, Jean, Muller, Jean-Claude, & Owen, Robert E. (eds). 1987. Luxem-bourgers in the New World: A reedition based on the work of Nicholas Gonner “Die Luxemburger in der Neuen Welt”, Dubuque, Iowa, 1889 (2 vols). Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg: Editions-Reliures Schortgen.Google Scholar
Feld, Steven, & Basso, Keith H.. 1996. Introduction. Senses of place, ed. by Feld, Steven & Basso, Keith H., 3–11. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press.Google Scholar
Gorter, Durk (ed.). 2006. Linguistic landscape: A new approach to multilingualism. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Harvey, David. 1989. The condition of postmodernity. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.Google Scholar
Hobsbawm, Eric, & Ranger, Terence (eds). 1983. The invention of tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Hoelscher, Steven D. 2006. Heritage. A companion to museum studies, ed. by Macdonald, Sharon, 198–218. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hoelscher, Steven D. 1998. Heritage on stage: The invention of ethnic place in America's Little Switzerland. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press.Google Scholar
Horner, Kristine, & Jacques Weber, Jean. 2008. The language situation in Luxembourg. Current Issues in Language Planning 9. 69–128.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jenkins, Richard. 1997. Rethinking ethnicity: Arguments and explorations. London: Sage.Google Scholar
Jaworski, Adam, & Thurlow, Crispin (eds). 2010. Semiotic landscapes: Language, image, space. London: Continuum.Google Scholar
Krier, Beatrice Wester. 1987. Tapestry of Luxembourgers: Town Belgium history. Belgium: Self-published manuscript.Google Scholar
Landry, Rodrigue, & Bourhis, Richard Y. 1997. Linguistic landscape and ethnolinguistic vitality: An empirical study. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 16. 23–49.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Leeman, Jennifer, & Modan, Gabriella. 2009. Commodified language in Chinatown: A contextualized approach to linguistic landscape. Journal of Sociolinguistics 13. 332–362.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Luxembourg American Cultural Center website [accessed July 28, 2011]. http://www.luxamculturalsociety.org/.Google Scholar
May, Stephen. 2001. Language and minority rights: Ethnicity, nationalism and the politics of language. London: Longman.Google Scholar
Péporté, Pit, Sonja Kmec, Benoit Majerus, & Margue, Michel. 2010. Inventing Luxembourg: Representations of the past, space and language from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. Leiden: Brill.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rose, Gillian. 1995. Place and identity: A sense of place. A place in the world? Places, cultures and globalization, ed. by Massey, Doreen & Jess, Pat, 87–132. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Scollon, Ron, & Wong Scollon, Suzie. 2003. Discourses in place: Language in the material world. London: Routledge.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Shenk, Petra Scott. 2007. “I'm Mexican, remember?” Constructing ethnic identities via authenticating discourse. Journal of Sociolinguistics 11. 194–220.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Village of Belgium Website. www.village.belgium.wi.us [accessed July 28, 2011]Google Scholar