Moja ślóńsko rzecz. Szkic autoetnograficzny
Journal Title: Socjolingwistyka - Year 2018, Vol 32, Issue
Abstract
This is a personal text relating to my own experiences referring to the Teschen version of the Silesian language – my native tongue – its later removal from my life by the hegemony of Polish, and then my conscious return to Silesian, which is not only a linguistic gesture, but also a political and identity declaration. Following Carolyn Ellis, I understand auto-ethnography as a research and writing practice “that connect the autobiographical and personal to the cultural, social, and political” (Ellis 2004: xix), based on emotions, introspection, and embodiment, and expressed in various literary conventions. In the second part of the paper I present a regular analysis of the issues related to the Silesian language referring to the subject literature and contemporary theoretical concepts, and focus on the issue of language performativity, muted groups theory, the problem of distinction between languages and dialects as a political issue, and my proposal to treat the Teschen tongue as a modal version of the Silesian language. I treat my project as “critical intervention in social, political and cultural life” (Holman Jones 2009: 175).
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Grażyna Kubica
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- DOI 10.17651/SOCJOLING.32.3
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