“Stuff White People Like”: Stance, Class, Race, and Internet Commentary

Walton, Shana; Jaffe, Alexandra

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“…In the framework of LID, related posts and comments in online communities can be considered as metasociolinguistic stances , since they show “an attitude or position with respect to language hierarchies and ideologies” (Jaffe a, 17). “Alignment” toward stance‐taking can be accomplished “both directly/explicitly and indirectly/implicitly” (Walton and Jaffe , 200), even when the stance objects are discursive and ideological, as they are here. Using the analytical framework of stance enables a focus on emerging and situated processes of indexicalization (Jaffe a, 13).…”

Section: Metasociolinguistic Stance‐taking In Facebook Communitiesmentioning

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Castilian Takes Backstage in the Balearic Islands: The Activation of Catalan Standardization Recursions in Facebook

Duane

2017

J Linguistic Anthropol

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This article explores the ideological consequences of recent language policy changes in the Balearic Islands, where Catalan and Castilian are the official languages. It will approach the intersection between minoritized language contexts and ideologies of standardization, focusing on negotiations of linguistic authority and linguistic differentiation at the individual level. In the frame of intense language ideological debates in the archipelago, I examine the interactions between members of two large Facebook communities to show how the ideological frame shifts toward one in which the relationship between Balearic varieties and the Catalan standard becomes central, and in which Castilian is only implicitly addressed.

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Section: Metasociolinguistic Stance‐taking In Facebook Communitiesmentioning

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Castilian Takes Backstage in the Balearic Islands: The Activation of Catalan Standardization Recursions in Facebook

Duane

2017

J Linguistic Anthropol

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“…That is, the webpage is deliberately designed so as to abstain from prescriptive metacommentary, from commenting on the intentions and aims motivating the website or the actual display of the photographs. However, such "conceit of neutrality" (Walton & Jaffe 2011) is belied by the singular and most prominent contextualization cue of the site: the title of the gallery. The title Per-Looks is phrased after the popular website Hel-Looks, a style and fashion site documenting the latest street fashion of Helsinki (http://www.hel-looks.com/).…”

Section: Visual Web Design As Performative Enactment: the Per-looks Mmentioning

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“…When participants make comments, they are not only positioning themselves with regard to the opinion piece and uptaking their stance for or against previous comments, but also introducing new stances and creating "the textual context for the entry and reading of each new comment". As researchers, we are interested in what forms of stance alignment and non-alignment the commentaries take, following the analytical framework of Walton and Jaffe's (2011) and what positioning might tell us about the commentators' folk theories of race and ethnicity. In our analysis, we will use s/he where the commentator's gender is not clear.…”

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“Where are you really from?”: Nationality and Ethnicity Talk (NET) in everyday interactions

Hua

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2016

Applied Linguistics Review

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The article examines the significance of questions such as "where are you really from?" in everyday conversational interactions. Defining this kind of talk as nationality and ethnicity talk (NET), i. e. discourse that either explicitly or inexplicitly evokes one's nationality or ethnicity in everyday conversation, the paper discusses what constitutes NET, how it works through symbolic and indexical cues and strategic emphasis, and why it matters in the wider context of identity, race, intercultural contact and power relations. The discussion draws on social media data including videos, blogs, on-line comments and the authors' observations, and focuses on NET around Asian people living outside Asia. It argues that the question "where are you really from" itself does not per se contest immigrants' entitlement. However, what makes difference to the perception of whether one is an "interloper" -someone who is not wanted -is the "tangled" history, memory and expectation imbued and fuelled by power inequality.

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“Stuff White People Like”: Stance, Class, Race, and Internet Commentary

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