Cecile Vigouroux
2021
Vigouroux, Cecile
Tribute: Jan Blommaert, a citizen sociolinguist Journal Article
In: Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2021.
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2020
Vigouroux, Cecile; Mufwene, Salikoko Sangol
Do Linguists Need Economics and Economists Linguistics? Book Chapter
In: pp. 1-55, Cambridge University Press, 2020, ISBN: 9781108479332.
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2019
Vigouroux, Cecile
Language and (in)hospitality: The micropolitics of hosting and guesting Journal Article
In: Language Culture and Society, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 31-58 , 2019.
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Vigouroux, Cecile; Perez-Milans,; Baquedano-Lopez, Patricia; Percio, A Del; Wei, L
Language, Culture and Society - Editorial Journal Article
In: Language, Culture and Society, 2019.
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Vigouroux, Cecile; Milans, Miguel Pérez; Baquedano-Lopez, Patricia; Percio, Alfonso Del; Wei, Li
Language, Culture and Society: Inaugural Editorial Journal Article
In: Language Culture and Society, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1-7, 2019.
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2018
Vigouroux, Cecile; Milans, Miguel Pérez; Baquedano-Lopez, Patricia; Percio, Alfonso Del
Language, Culture and Society: Editorial 1:3 (2021) Journal Article
In: Language Culture and Society, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 1-8, 2018.
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In our previous issues, we have outlined our commitment to strengthen the focus on Society by critically examining the categories on which we build our work as scholars of language […] But so far we have done this without explicitly addressing the very institutional position from which many of us produce knowledge: the University – the big elephant in the room. And it is not always easy to do so. After all, the university is the workplace that structures our knowledge production while at the same time providing the means which ratify the social and intellectual legitimacy of what we do (including having access to editorial positions), even if this is under conditions of increasing precarity and instability. […] The five articles in the present issue offer us, in our view, with avenues for deepening reflection on these matters. Although authors weren’t exactly reacting to a particular call, we read their contributions as speaking to these concerns. We do so with two goals in mind. First, to insist that it is worth keeping an eye on the social relations of inequality that we continue to mystify as knowledge producers who write from within higher education institutions. Second, to sustain venues where we can continue talking about this openly and honestly, in ways that don’t paralyse us but which rather propel us to generate productive forms of transgression and counter-conducts within our universities – not only in the sense envisioned by Foucault (2007) but also in connection with the reactivation of a variety of non-European indigenous systems of knowing (Mbembe, 2003). More specifically, the contributions in this issue help us delve in a critique of the relations of power and inequality that frame and inform our work and that we have shaped. This includes a critique of: (a) our roles as researchers and knowledge producers; (b) the categories we mobilize when doing research; (c) the histories of our own academic disciplines; (d) the learning spaces that we contribute to create as teachers; and (e) our recruitment practices in universities.
Vigouroux, Cecile
Toward a Sociolinguistics of Modern Sub-Saharan African South–South Migrations Journal Article
In: 2018.
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2017
Vigouroux, Cecile
The discursive pathway of two centuries of raciolinguistic stereotyping: Africans as incapable of speaking French Journal Article
In: Language in Society, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 5-21, 2017.
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Vigouroux, Cecile
Individuals, populations, and timespace Perspectives on the ecology of language revisited Journal Article
In: pp. 75 - 103, 2017.
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Vigouroux, Cecile
Rethinking (un)skilled migrants: Whose skills, what skills, for what, and for whom? Book Chapter
In: pp. 312-329, RoutledgeEditors: Suresh Canagarajah, 2017.
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2016
Vigouroux, Cecile
9. Magic Marketing: Performing Grassroots Literacy: Recombining Spaces, Times and Language Practices Book Chapter
In: vol. 13, no. 2, Engaging Superdiversity, 2016, ISBN: 9781783096800.
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Vigouroux, Cecile
Magic marketing: Performing grassroots literacy Book Chapter
In: vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 199-219, Magic Marketing: Performing Grassroots Literacy, 2016, ISSN: 2079-6595.
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2015
Vigouroux, Cecile
Genre, heteroglossic performances, and new identity: Stand-up comedy in modern French society Journal Article
In: Language in Society, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 243-272, 2015.
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Vigouroux, Cecile; Jaffe, Alexandra; Koven, Michele; Perrino, Sabina
Introduction: Heteroglossia, performance, power, and participation Journal Article
In: Language in Society 44(02): DOI:, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 135-139, 2015.
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In this special issue, we build on Bauman's seminal observation about performance, that ‘the act of expression is put on display, objectified, marked out to a degree from its discursive surrounding and opened up to interpretive scrutiny and evaluation by an audience’ (2000:1). More recently, scholars have moved to examining the performative role of heteroglossia, that is, the use of multiply sourced, semiotic (verbal and nonverbal) forms. In particular, this line of research has shown how attention to heteroglossic performances and their local interpretations can illuminate the subtle politics of dominant and nondominant identities in different ethnographic contexts. This is particularly true of what Coupland (2007) calls ‘high performances’, which, as Bell & Gibson (2011:558) write, are privileged sites for allowing participants to indexically associate expressive forms with social personae. Thus, while all performances are inherently reflexive, heteroglossic performances particularly amplify that reflexivity with respect to their multiple frames, voices, and stances that they presuppose and establish
2013
Vigouroux, Cecile
In: pp. 296- 328, Bristol: Multilingual Matter, 2013, ISBN: 9781783091010.
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When I started my research on French-speaking African migrants in Cape Town in 1997,
I often got in answer to my question what kind of job do you do here the recurrent answer I don’t
work. In such cases I ventured a follow-up question about how the person earns money to sustain
their basic needs such as food and accommodation; and I got surprised when I heard I am a
security (‘a security guard’) or a car watcher. I realized then that there was a clear discrepancy
between what I was defining as work, ‘a way to make money in order to sustain oneself’, and
what my interlocutors were considering as work. Actually, I don’t know exactly how they
constructed the category WORK since I never asked them. I can just infer from the answers I
received that the activity of earning money they were referring to was typically low-paid, at the
bottom of the socioeconomic ladder and not clearly defined institutionally. Such a discrepancy
between the researcher’s categories and those of his/her subjects is not new; it has been amply
documented in the literature. Yet, it calls for an investigation of how categories are constructed in
the social environment in which they emerge and where they are discursively articulated in order
to understand, on the one hand, how the subject positions himself/herself and, on the other, how
the categorization lends meaning to her own and others’ social practices.
I often got in answer to my question what kind of job do you do here the recurrent answer I don’t
work. In such cases I ventured a follow-up question about how the person earns money to sustain
their basic needs such as food and accommodation; and I got surprised when I heard I am a
security (‘a security guard’) or a car watcher. I realized then that there was a clear discrepancy
between what I was defining as work, ‘a way to make money in order to sustain oneself’, and
what my interlocutors were considering as work. Actually, I don’t know exactly how they
constructed the category WORK since I never asked them. I can just infer from the answers I
received that the activity of earning money they were referring to was typically low-paid, at the
bottom of the socioeconomic ladder and not clearly defined institutionally. Such a discrepancy
between the researcher’s categories and those of his/her subjects is not new; it has been amply
documented in the literature. Yet, it calls for an investigation of how categories are constructed in
the social environment in which they emerge and where they are discursively articulated in order
to understand, on the one hand, how the subject positions himself/herself and, on the other, how
the categorization lends meaning to her own and others’ social practices.
Vigouroux, Cecile
Informal economy and language practice in the context of migrations Book Chapter
In: pp. 225-247, Multilingual Matters, 2013, ISBN: 978-1-78309-099-0.
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2012
Vigouroux, Cecile
Francophonie Journal Article
In: Annual Review of Anthropology , vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 379-397, 2012.
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This review unravels different facets of la Francophonie, both as an international institution dedicated to the defense of French and as a group of people who speak or are united by French. Having been highly ideological since its beginnings and its association with France's colonial history, the very idea of la Francophonie has aroused passionate debates both within and without. Although it was officially launched as a cultural community seeking to develop economic partnership, it has evolved into a political organization promoting human rights and democracy and defending cultural diversity against Anglo-American hegemony. From a linguistic point of view, la Francophonie is approached in light of the centuries-long ideology of French as a universal language whose vitality is threatened by other languages. This review also shows that the political discourse of the institutional Francophonie has not always been in tune with that of its main agents, the Francophones.
Vigouroux, Cecile; Mufwene, Salikoko Sangol
Individuals, Populations, and Timespace: Perspectives on the Ecology of Language Journal Article
In: Language Ecology, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 75 - 103, 2012.
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2011
Vigouroux, Cecile
Bridges and barriers: language in African education and development Journal Article
In: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, vol. 32, no. 6, pp. 600-602, 2011.
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This book argues that in 'Anglophone' Africa, education is not effective because of the use of English, rather than children's first languages, both as the medium of instruction, and also as the language in which children are first taught to read. Research is presented from Malawi and Zambia, countries with contrasting language policies, using evidence from tests in English and African languages, small-group discussions and classroom observation. The findings show that English-medium policies in Africa do not give students any advantage in English over first-language policies, while the use of English discriminates against girls and rural children.
The book concludes that much education in Africa is a barrier rather than a bridge to learning because of the prevailing language ideology, which has resulted in massive over-estimation of the value of English. While appropriate language policies alone will not solve education and development difficulties in Africa, they do have a positive contribution to make. The evidence presented here suggests they are failing to make that contribution.
This book argues that in 'Anglophone' Africa, education is not effective because of the use of English, rather than children's first languages, both as the medium of instruction, and also as the language in which children are first taught to read. Research is presented from Malawi and Zambia, countries with contrasting language policies, using evidence from tests in English and African languages, small-group discussions and classroom observation. The findings show that English-medium policies in Africa do not give students any advantage in English over first-language policies, while the use of English discriminates against girls and rural children.
The book concludes that much education in Africa is a barrier rather than a bridge to learning because of the prevailing language ideology, which has resulted in massive over-estimation of the value of English. While appropriate language policies alone will not solve education and development difficulties in Africa, they do have a positive contribution to make. The evidence presented here suggests they are failing to make that contribution.
2010
Vigouroux, Cecile
Double‐mouthed discourse: Interpreting, framing, and participant roles1 Journal Article
In: Journal of Sociolinguistics 14(3): DOI:, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 341 - 369, 2010.
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2009
Vigouroux, Cecile
The making of a scription: A case study on authority and authorship Journal Article
In: Text & Talk - TEXT TALK, vol. 29, no. 5, pp. 615-637, 2009.
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2008
Vigouroux, Cecile
“The smuggling of La Francophonie”: Francophone Africans in Anglophone Cape Town (South Africa) Journal Article
In: Language in Society, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 415 - 434, 2008.
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Vigouroux, Cecile; Mufwene, Salikoko Sangol
Colonization, Globalization and Language Vitality in Africa: An Introduction Journal Article
In: Globalization and Language Vitality: Perspectives from Africa, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 1-48, 2008, ISSN: 1564-4901.
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siècle, from which mondialisation has now been omitted, for reasons that soon become obvious in the text. The essay has also benefited from lectures I gave on 7 November and 3 December 2001
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The typical academic discourse on language endangerment has presented languages as anthropomorphic organisms with lives independent of their speakers and capable of negotiating on their own the terms of their coexistence. Not surprisingly it has become commonplace to read about killer languages in the same vein as language wars, language murders and linguicides. I argue below that languages are parasitic species whose vitality depends on the communicative behaviours of their speakers, who in turn respond adaptively to changes in their socio-economic ecologies. Language shift, attrition, endangerment and death are all consequences of these adaptations. We must develop a better understanding of the ways in which one ecology differs from another and how these dissimilarities can account for variation in the vitality of individual languages. Globalisation is discussed as part of the relevant language ecology. I submit that only local globalisation has endangered or driven. This article has largely developed from my contribution to a debate with Professor Claude Hagège, under the title Quel avenir pour les langues?, at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on 19 September 2001 (part of the series Entretiens sur le XXIe siècle). The original French title was Colonisation, mondialisation, globalisation et l’avenir des langues au XXIe
siècle, from which mondialisation has now been omitted, for reasons that soon become obvious in the text. The essay has also benefited from lectures I gave on 7 November and 3 December 2001
at, respectively, the National University of Singapore and Hong Kong University entitled “Colonization, globalization, and language endangerment”. I am equally indebted to Michel DeGraff, Claude Hagège, Alison Irvine, Paul Newman and my anonymous referees for comments on earlier drafts of this publication.
siècle, from which mondialisation has now been omitted, for reasons that soon become obvious in the text. The essay has also benefited from lectures I gave on 7 November and 3 December 2001
at, respectively, the National University of Singapore and Hong Kong University entitled “Colonization, globalization, and language endangerment”. I am equally indebted to Michel DeGraff, Claude Hagège, Alison Irvine, Paul Newman and my anonymous referees for comments on earlier drafts of this publication.
2007
Vigouroux, Cecile
Trans-scription as a social activityAn ethnographic approach Journal Article
In: Ethnography, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 61-97 , 2007.
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Vigouroux, Cecile
Anna De Fina, Identity in narrative: A study of immigrant discourse Journal Article
In: Language in Society 36(01) DOI:, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 127 - 131, 2007.
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Narrative has now won its spurs within the social sciences, as evidenced by the number of publications, by the diversity of disciplinary approaches (e.g., linguistic, sociological, and psychological), and by the wide range of theoretical frameworks applied to its study. Similar remarks apply to studies of identity issues focused on the individual or a group, as shown by the range of foci such as social, ethnic, gender, national, racial, and institutional identity. Anna De Fina's Identity in narrative appears to be a useful resource for students of these topics and, more specifically, for anyone interested in the study of immigration.
Narrative has now won its spurs within the social sciences, as evidenced by the number of publications, by the diversity of disciplinary approaches (e.g., linguistic, sociological, and psychological), and by the wide range of theoretical frameworks applied to its study. Similar remarks apply to studies of identity issues focused on the individual or a group, as shown by the range of foci such as social, ethnic, gender, national, racial, and institutional identity. Anna De Fina's Identity in narrative appears to be a useful resource for students of these topics and, more specifically, for anyone interested in the study of immigration.
2005
Vigouroux, Cecile
‘There are no Whites in Africa’: Territoriality, language, and identity among Francophone Africans in Cape Town Journal Article
In: Language & Communication , vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 237-255, 2005.
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2004
Vigouroux, Cecile
Rencontre(s) d’un autre type Journal Article
In: Lidil, 2004.
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Vigouroux, Cecile
Ploog, Katja, Le Français à Abidjan. Pour une approche syntaxique du non-standard. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2002, 326 pp. 2 271 05968 2 Journal Article
In: Journal of French Language Studies, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 80 - 82, 2004.
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Journal of French Language Studies, sponsored by the Association for French Language Studies, encourages and promotes theoretical, descriptive and applied studies of all aspects of the French language. The journal brings together research from the English- and French-speaking traditions, publishing significant work on French phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis and semantics, sociolinguistics and variation studies. Most work is synchronic in orientation, but historical and comparative items are also included. Studies of the acquisition of the French language, where these take due account of current theory in linguistics and applied linguistics, are also published. Issues include survey articles reviewing the state of the art in a major field, as well as squibs on modern usage in French and a major book review section. As from 2004, one issue in three will be thematic and devoted to broad topics such as the acquisition of French, discourse or corpus-based descriptions of the French language.
Journal of French Language Studies, sponsored by the Association for French Language Studies, encourages and promotes theoretical, descriptive and applied studies of all aspects of the French language. The journal brings together research from the English- and French-speaking traditions, publishing significant work on French phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis and semantics, sociolinguistics and variation studies. Most work is synchronic in orientation, but historical and comparative items are also included. Studies of the acquisition of the French language, where these take due account of current theory in linguistics and applied linguistics, are also published. Issues include survey articles reviewing the state of the art in a major field, as well as squibs on modern usage in French and a major book review section. As from 2004, one issue in three will be thematic and devoted to broad topics such as the acquisition of French, discourse or corpus-based descriptions of the French language.