Food Fight: Conflicting Language Ideologies in English and French News and Social Media
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Food Fight: Conflicting Language Ideologies in English and French News and Social Media
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| Abstract |
The author points out that although social media provide new opportunities for minority language use and communication, the extent to which they differ from mainstream news media requires more investigation. Her paper addresses this issue by comparing French and English language ideologies in Canadian news media and on Twitter. These ideologies are investigated by the author using a specific case study where an Italian restaurant owner in Montreal in 2013 was challenged by a language inspector for Quebec's Office québécois de la langue français for using such Italian words as "pasta", "antipasti", "calamari" on a menu instead of their French equivalents. This incident, dubbed "Pastagate," generated extensive media coverage and Twitter activity. The author's corpus-assisted discourse study sheds insight on the complex dynamics of language politics and how they play out on different media platforms.
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Journal of Multicultural Discourses
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Vol. 10
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no. 2
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1-19
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July 2015
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en
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See also Chapter 7, titled "Language Ideologies in Online News, Commentary and Twitter : The Case of 'Pastagate,' in the author's book, Language and Canadian Media: Representations, Ideologies, Policies. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, pages 213-258. |
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Vessey, Rachelle. “Food Fight: Conflicting Language Ideologies in English and French News and Social Media.” Journal of Multicultural Discourses Vol. 10, no. 2 (July 2015): 1–19.
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