Comments on: Language shift and phone sex https://languageonthemove.com/language-shift-and-phone-sex/ Multilingualism, Intercultural communication, Consumerism, Globalization, Gender & Identity, Migration & Social Justice, Language & Tourism Fri, 22 Mar 2013 20:00:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Notions such as “free markets,” “economic efficiency,” and “perfect competition” are so devoid of any empirical reference that they belong to a discourse on metaphysics | my nerves are bad to-night https://languageonthemove.com/language-shift-and-phone-sex/#comment-15326 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 20:00:14 +0000 http://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=8547#comment-15326 […] Until my most recent visit for the 2011 Christmas holidays, it had never dawned on me that the language shift and the sexualization I had been observing were in any way connected. That changed when my mother and sister took me to the cinema to watch Eine ganz heisse Nummer, a German blockbuster that was released in October 2011 and that has attracted the kinds of viewer numbers usually reserved for Hollywood movies. The title translates as “A really hot number” and features the story of three women in a small Bavarian village who run the village grocery store. Facing bankruptcy because of competition from the supermarket chains in the nearby market town and cities and because of the overall economic crisis besetting the region, they decide to become phone sex providers to turn their fortunes around.  read more […]

]]> By: Zainab https://languageonthemove.com/language-shift-and-phone-sex/#comment-8026 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:59:02 +0000 http://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=8547#comment-8026 Dear Ingrid
It was an interesting post you shared reading which I could understand that there are various causes of language shift and how the socio-economic agency influences langauge shift. Since, I’m a novice in socio-linguistic, I couldn’t refelct much on it but I just want to ask that is it the lack of adaptability of a languageto socio-economic and political environment taht leads to its death?
Regards
Zainab

]]> By: Ingrid Piller https://languageonthemove.com/language-shift-and-phone-sex/#comment-7889 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:09:18 +0000 http://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=8547#comment-7889 In reply to Chad Nilep.

Thanks, Chad! Good to see on Lg-on-the-Move! 🙂 I’ve been meaning to read up on your PhD research for some time now.
I think the situation is quite different from the one in Gal’s study in that both agricultural and production work is disappearing in this context; by contrast, in Oberwart, language shift was a means to move from agricultural work in the village to production work in the city.
Agree that Hall’s paper isn’t directly relevant but an interesting tidbit: in the movie Eine ganz heisse Nummer one of the phone sex operators specializes in speaking with a French accent …

]]> By: Chad Nilep https://languageonthemove.com/language-shift-and-phone-sex/#comment-7887 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:49:48 +0000 http://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=8547#comment-7887 My first, smart-alec reaction was, “So, peasant men can’t get wives, but city folk get lip service on the fantasy lines?”

Perhaps, though, it’s better to offer the non-smart-alec version:
This reminds me in some ways of Sue Gal’s 1978 paper, “Peasant men can’t get wives”. In it, she traces the shift in Hungary from Hungarian-German bilingualism to German monolingualism, a shift that was further advanced in women than men due to differences in available labor and marriage markets.

(The second half of the joke refers to a chapter in Gender Articulated, Hall & Bucholtz 1995, but I think that’s less relevant to this post.)

]]> By: khan https://languageonthemove.com/language-shift-and-phone-sex/#comment-7881 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:14:45 +0000 http://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=8547#comment-7881 Dear Ingrid,

Many thanks for a very enlightening post showing me that language shift is essentially a shift in the socio-economic and political conditions of the people, and the wider society. It also shows that indigenous/local languages become a burden on its users if they do not permit them to link themselves to sources of powers i.e socio-economic prosperity. And perhaps the most exciting think for me is to see the semiotic manifestation of the language shift. Thanks very much indeed.

Best regards

Khan

]]> By: ResearchBlogging.org News » Blog Archive » Editor’s Selections: Sharky speedos, Local language, and Suburban livin’ https://languageonthemove.com/language-shift-and-phone-sex/#comment-7822 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:04:26 +0000 http://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=8547#comment-7822 […] norms. Ingrid Pillar of Language on the Move delves into some of the ways change is reflected in language in a Bavarian […]

]]> By: Golnaz https://languageonthemove.com/language-shift-and-phone-sex/#comment-7802 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 08:08:43 +0000 http://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=8547#comment-7802 Dear Professor Piller ,

That’s why language is on the move !

Thanks .

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