This paper analyzes the nature of linguistic interactions between host communities and international tourists. The tourism-based context provides an excellent platform from which to describe the sociolinguistic influences that American tourists have had on Mexican communities. Specifically, the language use of local vendors in Puerto Peñasco/Rocky Point, Mexico, is described in terms of the various linguistic characteristics that constitute their particular dialect of English. Not only does this work emphasize the sociocultural foundation of language acquisition, it also illustrates the type of language that is learned in economically motivated situations. The results also emphasize how the growing ubiquity of (American) English in tourism contexts establishes distinct attitudes towards the United States and those who live there.

This study investigates Discourses of language use (Gee, 2005) in a community of artists and artistic promoters associated with the Centre culturel Aberdeen in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. Members of this network are described as Acadian social actors, those who have cultural and linguistic capital, thus the potential capacity to influence Discourses of language use circulating in Acadian society, through language use accompanying their art and artistic promotion (Bourdieu, 2001; Heller, 2003; Heller & Labrie, 2004). This study specifically explores this group’s discursive constructions of their roles within social spaces (Lefebvre, 1991) in which they participate as artists, beginning with the Centre Aberdeen itself, expanding to Greater Moncton, Acadie, Canada, and finally, to the international space of la francophonie. Their discourse shows these roles to be highly dependent on the linguistic marketplace associated with each space. The findings indicate that in the space of the Centre culturel Aberdeen, formerly conceived of as a minority language space, French remains the dominant language of practice; however, many participants affirm that the use of other languages in the Centre is not censured. Some participants even refer to Aberdeen as a bilingual space. In the social space of Greater Moncton, the discourse of bilingual participants demonstrates their inner conflict between using French in their art to affirm their Acadian identity and using English in order to have a greater audience. In Acadie, the participants’ discourse focuses principally on how to represent regional varieties of French in writing, including Chiac, the variety of French local to Southeastern New Brunswick. In the space of Acadie and beyond, participants speak to the need for a normative register of French in extra-regional communications. In the national Francophone social space, participants express their frustration at lack of exposure and the essentialization of their identity in Canada’s Francophone media. In speaking of la francophonie, participants again insist on the necessity of a standard form of French for global communication, while affirming that they also assert their cultural distinctiveness in their art with regional expressions. These findings are in line with elements of Heller and Labrie’s (2004) post-nationalist discours mondialisant. / text

Submitted by Fabiano Vassallo (fabianovassallo2127@gmail.com) on 2017-12-01T15:13:57Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Dissertação - Luana Agualuza.pdf: 1639307 bytes, checksum: 89f7a0506ff3a5c7157337c3524d6600 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Jussara Moore (jussaramoore@id.uff.br) on 2018-01-22T14:03:06Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Dissertação - Luana Agualuza.pdf: 1639307 bytes, checksum: 89f7a0506ff3a5c7157337c3524d6600 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-01-22T14:03:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Dissertação - Luana Agualuza.pdf: 1639307 bytes, checksum: 89f7a0506ff3a5c7157337c3524d6600 (MD5) / Aliança Francesa (SG), São Gonçalo, RJ / A presente pesquisa tem por objetivo analisar as representações associadas ao aprendizado de línguas estrangeiras e à inserção social, entre estudantes de cursos privados de idiomas da cidade de São Gonçalo, no estado do Rio de Janeiro. Este município é considerado o segundo mais populoso do estado, apresentando um baixo indicador no Índice de Desenvolvimento Humano Municipal (IDHM). Este nível é calculado a partir dos critérios de saúde e longevidade da população, de seu acesso à educação, bem como de sua renda. Contudo, a partir dos anos 2000, sua região central vivenciou um crescimento exponencial no número de cursos privados de línguas estrangeiras. O quadro teórico deste estudo está baseado nos conceitos de mercado linguístico (Bourdieu, 1998, 1989), de modelo gravitacional (Calvet, 2002), de política linguística (Calvet, 2007; Cooper, 1997; Grin, 2002) e de representação linguística (Calvet, 2002; Pereira, 2012; Petitjean, 2009). A abordagem predominante nessa pesquisa é a qualitativa. Os resultados demonstram, no contexto analisado, a relação direta entre a promessa de desenvolvimento econômico da região e a proliferação de cursos de línguas. Por outro lado, a demanda real de formação linguística denota a ausência de políticas linguísticas educacionais para o ensino de línguas estrangeiras no município. Observamos que as representações linguísticas dos estudantes e as escolhas das línguas estudadas reforçam o status da língua inglesa, de acordo com o modelo gravitacional / The aim of this research is to analyse the representations associated with foreign language learning and social insertion among students of private foreign language courses in the city of São Gonçalo, in the state of Rio de Janeiro. This town is considered the second most populated of the state and presents a low Human Development Index (HDI) for cities. This index is calculated by criteria regarding a given population such as health and longevity, as well as its income and access to education. Nevertheless, since 2000, the central side of the city has experienced an exponential growth in the number of private foreign language courses. The theoretical framework of this study is based on the concepts of linguistic marketplace (Bourdieu, 1998, 1989), gravitational model (Calvet, 2002b), language policy (Calvet, 2007; Cooper, 1997; Grin, 2002) and linguistic representation (Calvet, 2002a; Pereira, 2012; Petitjean, 2009), by means mainly of a qualitative research approach. The results show a close relationship between the promise of economic development and the proliferation of language courses in the region and context analysed. On the other hand, the real demand for linguistic education denotes the absence of educational linguistic policies for the teaching of foreign languages in the city. We can observe that the linguistic representations of students, as well as the choice of studied languages, reinforce the status of the English language, according to the gravitational model