Language-identity links are ideological, not natural
Evidence
In identity formation, indexicality relies heavily on ideological structures, for associations between language and identity are rooted in cultural beliefs and values – that is, ideologies – about the sorts of speakers who (can or should) produce particular sorts of language. — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction, 50
Categorization
- DEFINE: Frames indexicality as fundamentally ideological—a key nuance distinguishing Bucholtz & Hall’s sense from the bare linguistic index.
- XREF: connects to: Macro social categories poorly capture the identity relations that matter locally — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction: A…, 35; Identity similarity is interactionally achieved, not a matter of actual sameness.; Playful performance can denaturalize links between phenotype and ethnic identity. — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction: A…, 99 (+8 more)
Related
- Indexicality links linguistic forms to identity through culturally rooted ideologies (similarity 0.89)
- Identity similarity is interactionally achieved, not a matter of actual sameness. (similarity 0.81)
- Macro social categories poorly capture the identity relations that matter locally (similarity 0.80)
- Identity analyses should combine multiple dimensions rather than foreground one (similarity 0.79)
- Identity theories lag behind the linguistic research that has made identity central. (similarity 0.79)
- Identity is constituted through social action and language rather than merely reflected in behavior (similarity 0.79)
- Identity relations involve more than a single sameness-difference axis. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Ideology operates through language itself, not merely through false beliefs
#expands(0.85) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 698 - Enforcing ethnic and linguistic homogeneity fosters rather than prevents disunity
#complicates(0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 891