Abstracts
Abstract
Kalaallit Nunaat has a tradition of broadcasting a New Year’s show on KNR-TV to mock the past year and the national political scandals. The show often parodies people from different towns, imitating their dialect. Irvine and Gal’s (2000) concept of processes of language ideologies (iconization, erasure, and fractal recursivity,) alongside Agha’s enregisterment (2003) shows how a dialect can become more marginalized by using features with negative connotations. The article analyses how the media is a tool to reproduce stereotypes and contribute to maintaining the power structures in society by using normalized humour that mocks dialects. The Upernavimmiutut dialect is used as a case study. Coloniality is still visible in today’s Kalaallit Nunaat, and it affects marginalized groups. Standardization and mediatization (Androutsopoulos 2014) also play a significant role in maintaining the power structures in the linguistic arena. The article looks at how people in power have reproduced language ideologies over the decades and how democratized new media maintain them by distributing them through research, TV, and memes in social media.
Keywords:
- Coloniality,
- Upernavik,
- satire,
- standardization,
- language ideologies,
- mediatization,
- Kalaallisut
Résumé
Kalaallit Nunaat a pour tradition de diffuser une émission de Nouvel An sur KNR-TV pour se moquer de lannée écoulée et des scandales politiques nationaux. L’émission parodie souvent les habitants de différentes villes en imitant leur dialecte. L’utilisation du concept d’Irvine et Gal (2000) sur les processus des idéologies linguistiques (iconisation, effacement et récursivité fractale) ainsi que l’enregistrement d’Agha (2003) montrent comment un dialecte peut devenir plus marginalisé en utilisant des caractéristiques qui connotent ses caractéristiques négatives. L’article analyse comment les médias sont utilisés pour reproduire les stéréotypes et contribuer au maintien des structures de pouvoir dans la société en utilisant un humour normalisé qui se moque des dialectes. L’upernavimmiutut est utilisé comme une étude de cas. La colonialité est toujours visible dans le Kalaallit Nunaat d’aujourd’hui, et elle affecte les groupes marginalisés. La normalisation et la médiatisation (Androutsopoulos 2014) jouent également un rôle important dans le maintien des structures de pouvoir dans l’arène linguistique. L’article examine comment les personnes au pouvoir ont reproduit les idéologies linguistiques au fil des décennies et comment les nouveaux médias démocratisés les maintiennent en les diffusant par le biais de la recherche, de la télévision et des mèmes dans les médias sociaux.
Mots-clés :
- Colonialité,
- Upernavik,
- satire,
- normalisation,
- idéologies linguistiques,
- médiatisation,
- Kalaallisut
Appendices
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