Entire communities can collectively subvert a dominant language from within

Evidence

Relationships of subversion exist when an entire community encourages sorne new and frequently antiestablishment usage of a language. English-speaking Caribbeans and blacks in the United States are two convincing examples in their use of the English language, as are the Quebecois in their appropriation of French. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 549

Categorization

• XREF: Empirical cases directly bearing on whether ironic/oppositional relation to a dominant symbolic system is available COLLECTIVELY, not just to individual subjects — the reader’s open question. — connects to: Language is socially constructed and speaks through individuals; Subjugated cultures subvert dominant codes by rearticulating and creolizing their signs — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 838; Fragmenting dominant slogans linguistically lets colonized subjects remap their own identity — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2505 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Subjugated cultures subvert dominant codes by rearticulating and creolizing their signs #expands (0.95) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 838
• Creolized language threatens colonizers by enabling resistance in their presence #exemplifies (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 19
• Fragmenting dominant slogans linguistically lets colonized subjects remap their own identity #exemplifies (0.82) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2505
• Language is socially constructed and speaks through individuals #qualifies (0.75)