Self‐defined, other‐defined cultural identity: Logogenesis and multiple‐group membership in a Greek Australian sociolinguistic community

• Autores: Leo Papademetre
• Localización: Journal of multilingual and multicultural development, ISSN 0143-4632, Vol. 15, Nº. 6, 1994, págs. 507-525
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The dynamic processes involved in language use and development of a given bilingual/cultural group within a monolingually‐dominant society necessitate constant language modification for the bilinguals, the consequence of which is modification of their cultural identity (self‐ or other‐defined). The degree of modification of self‐identity of a bilingual in a multicultural society can be correlated with the disappearances/appearances of aspects of language use which may wane and wax in relation to a dynamically‐shared culture. In other words, cultural identity may be perceived by an individual as the result of an on‐going process of logogenesis. The present study investigates aspects of Greek and English language use among some second, and third generation bilinguals living in the Australian urban social context of Adelaide, where the dynamic process of code interaction has created a sociolinguistic continuum that is used to define ingroup memberships. This process establishes levels of self‐categorisation within the ingroup itself that determine a member's group‐identity on the basis of which part of the continuum is shared by whom.