Parallelism, Metalinguistic Play, and the Interactive Emergence of Zinacantec Mayan Siblings' Culture

León, Lourdes de

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“…The present study is based on an ongoing project on the changing patterns of communication in the Tzotzil Mayan-speaking municipalities of Zinacantán and Chamula, in Chiapas, México. It is rooted in over three decades of anthropological and linguistic research in the hamlet of Nabenchauk, which is within the municipality of Zinacantán (de León 1998(de León , 2005(de León , 2007(de León , 2009(de León , 2012a(de León , 2015(de León , 2017.…”

Section: Cell Phones and Romance Among Mayan Youth: Study And Backgroundmentioning

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Texting Amor: Emerging Intimacies in Textually Mediated Romance Among Tzotzil Mayan Youth

León¹

2017

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Cell phones are vehicles for creating and transforming sociality in peer networks (Coleman 2010; Wallis 2010). In the last decade, increased access to cell phones has radically changed courtship practices among Mayan youth of Zinacantán, Chiapas, and México as young couples now text clandestine romantic relationships, unmediated by elders. Since there is essentially no vocabulary for romantic love in Mayan Tzotzil, couples now rely on Spanish expressions gleaned from the media and other sources and have created a genre of romantic texting. The current study analyzes the textual microprocesses of dialogical construction of romance from a database of ten thousand WhatsApp text messages. Both microlevel practices and macrolevel forces are considered in shaping new landscapes of love, showing how texting affords new technological, linguistic, and literacy skills that are significantly changing repertoires of identity (Kroskrity 1993, 2000) and new expressions of agency and affect among Mayan youth. [Youth, cell phones, romance, love, digital communication, literacy, Mayan]

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Section: Cell Phones and Romance Among Mayan Youth: Study And Backgroundmentioning

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Texting Amor: Emerging Intimacies in Textually Mediated Romance Among Tzotzil Mayan Youth

León¹

2017

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“…In addition to studies of how children learn various forms of speech and cultural practices (e.g., Clancy ; Heath ; Ochs ; Paugh ; Schieffelin ; Schieffelin and Ochs ), work on peer language socialization often discusses forms of speech specific to the peer context (Boggs 1978; 1985; Evaldsson ; Goodwin ; Howard ; Katriel ; Kyratzis ; Kyratzis and Ervin‐Tripp ). For example, disputes among younger part‐Hawai'ian children differ from those among older children and adolescents in the same community (Boggs ); Zinacantec siblings produce their own sibling and peer culture through playing with and subverting adult sociolinguistic rules and genres (de León ); and Kwara'ae children have a child‐mode presentation of self in which they mark themselves as not adult (Watson‐Gegeo ). Some of the most extensive analyses of age‐graded speech patterns come from studies of language shift that reveal how different linguistic codes get attached to different generations (Garrett 2005, 2007; Kulick ; Meek ; Paugh ).…”

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Negotiating Age: Direct Speech and the Sociolinguistic Production of Childhood in theMarshallIslands

Berman

2014

J Linguistic Anthropol

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Children in the Republic of the Marshall Islands regularly do a number of things that are inappropriate or even taboo among adults: they walk with food that they do not offer to share; they refuse to give; they directly demand things; and they directly criticize and insult each other. One explanation for their behavior is that they are too developmentally immature to speak in the indirect and polite manner of adults. But I show that, while Marshallese children's apparently direct forms of speech are indeed linked to immaturity, they are linked to immaturity not as a developmental stage but as a social status. Hence, this article reveals, discusses, and challenges two different ideologies of childhood and language: (1) a Western ideology that associates directness with developmental immaturity; and (2) a Marshallese ideology that associates "not hiding"-either words or goods-with being a child. Through their apparently direct forms of speech, children negotiate their relative age and power relationships with each other while simultaneously constructing each other as peers and indexing participants as immature relative to adults. This analysis reveals how age and childhood are produced through speech and considers the implications of this production for understandings of language variation and socialization.

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“…My goal with this article is to draw on recent literature on how children socialise one another (e.g. De Leon, 2007;Evaldsson, 2007;Goodwin, 2006;Goodwin and Kyratzis, 2012;Griswold, 2007) and elucidate multiple ways in which South Korean children learn and come to embody local cultural meanings of emotions, focusing in particular on children's own experiences and emergent knowledge of the communicative, relational, and social aspects of emotions. I examine how Korean children learn culturally specific emotional knowledge, especially affective hierarchy and the relationships between emotion and social roles through exposure to and participation in language-mediated interactions.…”

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“Don't Cry, You're Not a Baby!”: Emotion, Role and Hierarchy in Korean Language Socialisation Practice

Ahn

2015

Children & Society

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I examine how South Korean children learn culturally specific emotional knowledge, especially affective hierarchy and the association between emotional displays and social roles, through participation in peer talk. An analysis of children's and teachers’ everyday emotional discourses shows that children, rather than passively adopting adult emotional discourses, creatively employ a range of linguistic and communicative features regarding emotions to construct their own culture‐laden emotional world. Findings articulate the role children's peer talk has in cultural reproduction and dynamic aspects of the language socialisation processes.

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Parallelism, Metalinguistic Play, and the Interactive Emergence of Zinacantec Mayan Siblings' Culture

Cited by 80 publications

References 56 publications

Texting Amor: Emerging Intimacies in Textually Mediated Romance Among Tzotzil Mayan Youth

Texting Amor: Emerging Intimacies in Textually Mediated Romance Among Tzotzil Mayan Youth

Negotiating Age: Direct Speech and the Sociolinguistic Production of Childhood in theMarshallIslands

“Don't Cry, You're Not a Baby!”: Emotion, Role and Hierarchy in Korean Language Socialisation Practice

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