"No English, no English": Raciolinguistic Entanglements in Czechia
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003441304-9" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003441304-9</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003441304-9" target="_blank" >10.4324/9781003441304-9</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
"No English, no English": Raciolinguistic Entanglements in Czechia
Original language description
Against the background of Czech society as relatively homogenously white this chapter discusses race related dynamics in relation to English (and to a lesser degree vis-à-vis Czech). Focusing on the lived experience of long-term residents with African heritage and Afroczechs this work provides an ethnographic perspective of how racialisations of the “Other” in form of phenotypical blackness influences quotidian encounters of individuals with African and Afroczech heritage. Methodologically grounded in participant observation and extensive interviews the chapter aims to develop a brief account of specific language and socio-political dynamics in this central eastern European space where whiteness and the Czech language are hegemonic and blackness and English signifiers for “Otherness”. Employing a raciolinguistic lens by examining where social constructions of language and race intersect in individual life trajectories of participants shows how English language ideologies play out in everyday Czech life. The findings suggest that there are generational changes in English language attitudes and compentencies, at least in big cities and that place and space are crucial determinants of the extent to which English is embraced or rejected, and how linguistic and racial Otherness plays out.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50404 - Anthropology, ethnology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA22-19820S" target="_blank" >GA22-19820S: Language and ‘Race’ Identities among Africans and Afro-Czechs in the Czech Republic</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Entangled Englishes
ISBN
978-1-03-257857-6
Number of pages of the result
13
Pages from-to
105-117
Number of pages of the book
254
Publisher name
Routledge
Place of publication
New York
UT code for WoS chapter
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