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Obligation, Error, and Authenticity: Competing Cultural Principles in the Teaching of Corsican
Author(s) -
Jaffe Alexandra
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of linguistic anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.463
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1548-1395
pISSN - 1055-1360
DOI - 10.1525/jlin.1993.3.1.99
Subject(s) - corsican , plural , language planning , obligation , linguistics , sociology , pedagogy , political science , law , philosophy
This article examines cultural tensions revealed both in popular reactions to Corsican language education and in Corsican language pedagogy. Lack of widespread public support for compulsory Corsican education and the cultural risks and ambiguities associated with defining linguistic error in the classroom are interpreted as evidence of conflict between a dominant Western European model of perfect congruence between language and identity and a plural cultural and linguistic reality.