Foreign Language Usage and National and European Identification in the Netherlands

Diana Cárdenas; Maykel Verkuyten

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Foreign Language Usage and National and European Identification in the Netherlands

Diana Cárdenas^*, Maykel Verkuyten

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Migration, Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Relation

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Multilingualism is considered a pathway to European identification but might also undermine national identification. We examine regular foreign language usage and two psychological constructs that can explain the relationship between multilingualism and European and national identification in the Netherlands: greater mental openness and a deprovincialized worldview. Using structural equation modeling, the results of two studies conducted with national Dutch samples show that foreign language usage predicted greater mental openness (cultural in Study 1, and cognitive in Study 2), which then predicted greater European identification. Foreign language usage also predicted greater deprovincialization which, in turn, predicted lower national identification.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	328-353
Number of pages	26
Journal	Journal of Language and Social Psychology
Volume	40
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X20979631
Publication status	Published - Jun 2021

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The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was funded by a fellowship to the first author by the Fonds de recherche du Qu?bec: Soci?t? et culture (Grant number: 2018-B3-209603). The second author was also supported by a European Research Council Advanced Grant under the European Union?s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Grant number: 740788) while working on this article.

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The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was funded by a fellowship to the first author by the Fonds de recherche du Québec: Société et culture (Grant number: 2018-B3-209603). The second author was also supported by a European Research Council Advanced Grant under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Grant number: 740788) while working on this article.

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The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was funded by a fellowship to the first author by the Fonds de recherche du Qu?bec: Soci?t? et culture (Grant number: 2018-B3-209603). The second author was also supported by a European Research Council Advanced Grant under the European Union?s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Grant number: 740788) while working on this article. The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was funded by a fellowship to the first author by the Fonds de recherche du Québec: Société et culture (Grant number: 2018-B3-209603). The second author was also supported by a European Research Council Advanced Grant under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (Grant number: 740788) while working on this article.

Keywords

additive identification pattern
deprovincialization
European identification
foreign language usage
multilingualism
national identification
subtractive identification pattern

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