Style and Social Identities: Alternative Approaches to Linguistic Heterogeneity

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2007

Style and Social Identities

Alternative Approaches to Linguistic Heterogeneity

Edited by: Peter Auer

Volume 18 in the series Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110198508

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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

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Chapter 1. Introduction Peter Auer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1. Bilingual styles and social identities
Introduction to Part 1 Peter Auer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Chapter 2. Language alternation as a resource for identity negotiations among Dominican American bilinguals Benjamin Bailey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Chapter 3. Style and stylization in the construction of identities in a card-playing club Anna Fina Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Chapter 4 Being a ‘colono’ and being ‘daitsch’ in Rio Grande do Sul: Language choice and linguistic heterogeneity as a resource for social categorisation Peter Auer, Jacinta Arnhold and Cintia Bueno-Aniola Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
Chapter 5. Names and identities, or: How to be a hip young Italian migrant in Germany Christine Bierbach and Gabriele Birken-Silverman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
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 Inken Keim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Chapter 7. Bystanders and the linguistic construction of identity in face-to-back communication Kathryn A. Woolard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Part 2. Monolingual styles and social identities – From local to global
Introduction to Part 2 Peter Auer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Chapter 8. Aneurin Bevan, class wars and the styling of political antagonism Nikolas Coupland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Chapter 9. Identity and positioning in interactive knowledge displays Grit Liebscher and Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Chapter 10. Style online: Doing hip-hop on the German-speaking Web Jannis Androutsopoulos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Part 3. Identity-work through styling and stylization
Introduction to Part 3 Peter Auer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
Chapter 11. Playing with the voice of the other: Stylized Kanaksprak in conversations among German adolescents Arnulf Deppermann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
Chapter 12. Identity and language construction in an online community: The case of ‘Ali G’ Mark Sebba Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361
Chapter 13. Positioning in style: Men in women’s jointly produced stories Alexandra Georgakopoulou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	393
Chapter 14. The construction of otherness in reported dialogues as a resource for identity work Susanne Günthner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	419
Chapter 15. The humorous stylization of ‘new’ women and men and conservative others Helga Kotthoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	445
Chapter 16. A postscript: Style and identity in interactional sociolinguistics John J. Gumperz and Jenny Cook-Gumperz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	477
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	503

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Graduate and Postgraduate Students in Sociolinguistics, Bilingualism, and Anthropological Linguistics
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 513
Keywords: Sociolinguistics; social identity; discourse analysis

eBook

Published: September 25, 2008
ISBN: 9783110198508

Hardcover

Published: August 20, 2007
ISBN: 9783110190809

Paperback

Published: January 16, 2008
ISBN: 9783110190816