Participatory action research to promote linguistic mudas among new speakers of Basque: design and benefits

dc.contributor.authorOrtega, Ane
dc.contributor.authorGoirigolzarri Garaizar, Jone
dc.contributor.authorAmorrortu, Estibaliz
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-11T08:43:46Z
dc.date.available2024-11-11T08:43:46Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.date.updated2024-11-11T08:43:46Z
dc.description.abstractThis article discusses the effectiveness of Participatory Action Research-PAR to foster linguistic mudas, transformative processes among young new speakers of Basque leading to linguistic mudas (Pujolar and Gonzàlez. 2013. “Linguistic Mudes and the Deethnicization of Language Choice in Catalonia.” International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 16 (2): 138–152) in favour of the minority language. Taking into account the three principles of PAR –research, participation, and action–, and using an ethnographic action-based approach, participants in the research project were agents of their own linguistic change by becoming co-researchers, who observed their own behaviour and set themselves personal challenges for increasing their everyday use of Basque. We describe how participants engaged in a process of self-awareness and reflective thinking in which teamwork, cooperative discussion of ideas and experiences, and relations of accompaniment (Bucholtz, Casillas, and Lee. 2016. “Beyond Empowerment: Accompaniment and Sociolinguistic Justice in a Youth Research Program.” In Sociolinguistic Research: Application and Impact, edited by R. Lawson, and D. Sayers. Routledge) proved crucial to find strategies for increasing new speakers’ control and agency (Ahearn 2001. “Language and Agency”. Annual Review of Anthropology 30: 109–137.), in order to enact the changes they desired. The article shows PAR methodology to be effective to bring about a change in participants’ subjectivities and linguistic practices, as well as to understand the complexities of muda processes among Basque new speakers in dominantly Spanish-speaking sociolinguistic contexts.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work presents results from the projects: ‘Becoming an active speaker of Basque’ (supported by the Basque Government), ‘El neohablante como sujeto social-NEOS’ (supported by the Agencia Española de Investigación, under Grant FFI2016-76869-P) and ‘Procesos de transformación sociolingüística en el contexto vasco: hablantes, prácticas y agencia-EquiLing-Basq’ (supported by the Agencia Española de Investigación, under Grant PID2019-105676RB- C42 / AEI / 10.13039/501100011033)en
dc.identifier.citationOrtega, A., Goirigolzarri, J., & Amorrortu, E. (2022). Participatory action research to promote linguistic mudas among new speakers of Basque: design and benefits. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 43(1), 55-67. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2021.1968877
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/01434632.2021.1968877
dc.identifier.issn0143-4632
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14454/1721
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.rights© 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
dc.subject.otherBasque language
dc.subject.otherLinguistic muda
dc.subject.otherNew speakers
dc.subject.otherPAR methodology
dc.subject.otherThe young
dc.titleParticipatory action research to promote linguistic mudas among new speakers of Basque: design and benefitsen
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.citation.endPage67
oaire.citation.issue1
oaire.citation.startPage55
oaire.citation.titleJournal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
oaire.citation.volume43
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