Styling the Other: Introduction

Rampton, Ben

doi:10.1111/1467-9481.00088

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“…Recent research has shown that children within UK Muslim communities deploy their linguistic repertoires in secular and faith settings as part of their socialisation into language and religious practices (Rosowsky, 2008). Rampton (1995) and Harris (2006), in non-religious contexts but with young people from similar language backgrounds, have reported on how language-mixing or code-switching, together with other translingual communicative acts such as 'styling' (Rampton, 1999), among British Asian young people can contribute to newer secular youth identities. This article reveals the under-reported and unmarked alternatives to recently described more popular and marked constructions of identity amongst British-Muslim young people (Abbas, 2005;Archer, 2001;Dwyer et al, 2008).…”

Section: Performance Identity and Languagementioning

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Challenging the discursive positioning of young British Muslims through the multilingual performance of devotional song and poetry

Rosowsky

2017

International Journal of Multilingualism

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This article presents data which challenge current hegemonic discourses in public and media spaces which reductively position young British Muslims as linguistically problematic. Framing these data are public space statements which argue for an overly simple linguistic basis to so-called extremist behaviour based on the presence or absence of the English language. Through an analysis of a questionnaire and interviews carried out with young performers, singers and reciters of devotional song and poetry in a range of language varieties, this article shows how such performance practices lead to the deployment of complex and mobile language resources which help negotiate and fashion rich linguistic repertoires and fluid identities for these young British Muslims. The article argues that these are (a) more representative of the wider British-Muslim youth community, (b) unmarked, and thus generally invisible within public discourses and (c) a far cry from the prevailing discursive attempts to frame young Muslims as posing a linguistic problem. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Performance Identity and Languagementioning

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Challenging the discursive positioning of young British Muslims through the multilingual performance of devotional song and poetry

Rosowsky

2017

International Journal of Multilingualism

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“…According to Eckert (2008Eckert ( , 2012, linguistic variation constitutes a robust social semiotic system that is able potentially to express the full range of social concerns in a given community; variation does not simply reflect, but constructs social meaning, hence it is a force in social change. Speakers recognize syntactic variants as stereotypes and these may be activated (or avoided) in public performances or otherwise in highly stylized uses of local-sounding speech (Eckert 2000;Rampton 1995). Speakers do not simply reflect "grammars" or "social categories" but are agents as well.…”

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“…2008;Cornips and De Rooij 2013;Hewitt 1986;Jaspers 2005;Rampton 1995Rampton , 2005Quist and Svendsen (eds.) 2010).…”

Section: Peer Group Settings In Multilingual Contexts: Beyond V2mentioning

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The no man’s land between syntax and variationist sociolinguistics: The case of idiolectal variability

Cornips¹

2015

Variation in Language: System- And Usage-Based Approaches

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The aim of this paper is to focus on the so-called no man's land where sociolinguistics and grammatical theory interact. It is argued that E-language as a social and I-language as a psychological construct do not exist independently, but influence each other. In other words, syntactic variation and change are driven by social factors but constrained by the nature of possible grammars. The interaction between the social meanings of linguistic forms on the one hand and grammar on the other brings about complex and multi-layered relationships between the individual and the group's or societal grammar. This paper emphasizes how individuals are restricted by grammar but, at the same time, able to overcome these restrictions in specific situated contexts through interactions. This combined approach enables us to predict why some structures are more resistant or vulnerable to syntactic variation and change than others and the route(s) individuals may take to overcome syntactic "restrictions". In this process of interdependent relations between the I-and E-languages, the interpretation and evaluation of linguistic forms through interaction is of crucial importance in the realization of so-called "impossible" or "unrealized" constructions.

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“…This is followed by a section on braggadocio as a genre of rap and the processes of sampling which are inextricably linked to the performance of this genre. In the analysis of an excerpt of a live braggadocio performance by three emcees 1 , we specifically ask how emcees sample local varieties of language, texts and registers to stage their particular stylisation (Rampton 1999) of voice in the local hip-hop context. We conclude the analysis by suggesting that the emcees' remixing of language varieties and discursive resources in braggadocio carry the voices of a new multilingual, multiracial, urban and rural generation (Shohamy 2006;Heller 2011) and that this ought to have implications for language politics.…”

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Multilingualism Remixed: Sampling, Braggadocio and the Stylisation of Local Voice

Williams

Stroud

2014

African Studies

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Among the many challenges posed by contexts of social transformation and extensive mobility is the question of how multilingual voice may carry across media, modalities and context. In this paper, we suggest that one approach to this complex problem may be to look at multilingual voice from a sociolinguistic perspective of performance. Our focus here is thus on how marginalised voices on the periphery of Cape Town become mainstreamed within the city's hip-hop community. Specifically, we ask how emcees sample local varieties of language, texts and registers to stage their particular stylisation of voice. By way of conclusion, we make brief recommendations with respect to the study of multilingualism in South Africa and how the stylisation of local voices in Cape Town hip-hop could inform studies on multilingual policy and planning.

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Styling the Other: Introduction

Cited by 234 publications

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Challenging the discursive positioning of young British Muslims through the multilingual performance of devotional song and poetry

Challenging the discursive positioning of young British Muslims through the multilingual performance of devotional song and poetry

The no man’s land between syntax and variationist sociolinguistics: The case of idiolectal variability

Multilingualism Remixed: Sampling, Braggadocio and the Stylisation of Local Voice

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