Auer Style and Social Identities

Alternative Approaches to Linguistic Heterogeneity
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-11-019850-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 524 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

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This volume presents an interactional perspective on linguistic variability that takes into account the construction of social identities through the formation of social communicative styles. It shows that style is a useful category in bridging the gap between single parameter variation and social identity. Social positioning, i.e., finding one's place in society, is one of its motivating forces. Various aspects of the expression of stylistic features are focused on, from language choice and linguistic variation in a narrow sense to practices of social categorization, pragmatics patterns, preferences for specific communicative genres, rhetorical practices including prosodic features, and aesthetic choices and preferences for specific forms of taste (looks, clothes, music, etc.). These various features of expression are connected to multimodal stylistic indices through talk; thus, styles emerge from discourse. Styles are adapted to changing contexts, and develop in the course of social processes. The analytical perspective chosen proposes an alternative to current approaches to variability under the influence of the so-called variationist paradigm.

Zielgruppe

Graduate and Postgraduate Students in Sociolinguistics, Bilingual

Autoren/Hrsg.

Auer, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;5
2;Chapter 1. Introduction;9
3;Part 1. Bilingual styles and social identities;31
4;Introduction to Part 1;33
5;Chapter 2. Language alternation as a resource for identity negotiations among Dominican American bilinguals;37
6;Chapter 3. Style and stylization in the construction of identities in a card-playing club;65
7;Chapter 4. Being a ‘colono’ and being ‘daitsch’ in Rio Grande do Sul: Language choice and linguistic heterogeneity as a resource for social categorisation;93
8;Chapter 5. Names and identities, or: How to be a hip young Italian migrant in Germany;129
9;Chapter 6. Socio-cultural identity, communicative style, and their change over time: A case study of a group of German-Turkish girls in Mannheim/Germany;163
10;Chapter 7. Bystanders and the linguistic construction of identity in face-to-back communication;195
11;Part 2. Monolingual styles and social identities - From local to global;215
12;Introduction to Part 2;217
13;Chapter 8. Aneurin Bevan, class wars and the styling of political antagonism;221
14;Chapter 9. Identity and positioning in interactive knowledge displays;255
15;Chapter 10. Style online: Doing hip-hop on the German-speaking Web;287
16;Part 3. Identity-work through styling and stylization;327
17;Introduction to Part 3;329
18;Chapter 11. Playing with the voice of the other: Stylized Kanaksprak in conversations among German adolescents;333
19;Chapter 12. Identity and language construction in an online community: The case of ‘Ali G’;369
20;Chapter 13. Positioning in style: Men in women’s jointly produced stories;401
21;Chapter 14. The construction of otherness in reported dialogues as a resource for identity work;427
22;Chapter 15. The humorous stylization of ‘new’ women and men and conservative others;453
23;Chapter 16. A postscript: Style and identity in interactional sociolinguistics;485
24;Index;511

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Auer, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany.