Abstract
Abstract This article represents an attempt to analyse how youngsters in the Basque Country construct their linguistic identity in interaction. The study is based on the hypothesis that youngsters in a bilingual community such as the Basque Country, with strong demands for national devolution, may experience more intensely than other citizens the tension between (1) a perception of language as a means for constructing a national identity and (2) a perception of language as a commodity which contributes to the socioeconomic promotion of the individual. The study is based on an analysis of the discourses that are drawn upon by three youngsters, during a focus-group session, and their teachers of Basque, Castilian and English in the course of a research interview. The analysis focuses on the notions of ‘social action’ and ‘psychological stance’ as discursive resources that the participants use in order to construct their personal linguistic ideology.
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