Theorizing identity in language and sexuality research

Bucholtz, Mary; Hall, Kelli Stidham

doi:10.1017/s0047404504334020

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“…The notion of something being 'so uncool it's cool' was a defining characteristic of Toni's and Nikki's cultural orientations and they regularly deployed such tactics in constructing a quirky and nerdy, yet cool, persona. Bucholtz (1999) notes similar engagement with avowedly uncool practices and a focus on individuality by nerd girls in a California high school.…”

Section: Tense Happy and Pro-school Stylesmentioning

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“…CofPs are claimed to represent the site at which individuals experience social categories in everyday life (Eckert & McConnell-Ginet 1992) and should, therefore, capture people's lived experience of a range of intersecting social categories and their concomitant influence on social practice. A focus on social practice has already led to considerable advances in variationists' understanding of social categories such as gender (Eckert & McConnell-Ginet 1992;Cheshire 2002), age (Eckert 2000;Bucholtz 2002;Kirkham & Moore 2013), and ethnicity (Eckert 2008a;Mendoza-Denton 2008;Benor 2010;Alam & StuartSmith 2011).…”

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Intersectionality and the social meanings of variation: Class, ethnicity, and social practice

Kirkham

2015

Lang. Soc.

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A B S T R A C TThis article examines how the social meanings of phonetic variation in a British adolescent community are influenced by a complex relationship between ethnicity, social class, and social practice. I focus on the realisation of the HAPPY vowel in Sheffield English, which is reported to be a lax variant [ɛ] amongst working-class speakers but is undergoing change towards a tense variant [i] amongst middle-class speakers. I analyse the acoustic realisation of this vowel across four female communities of practice in a multiethnic secondary school and find that the variable's community-wide associations of social class are projected onto the ethnographic category of school orientation, which I suggest is a more local interpretation of class relations. Ethnographic evidence and discourse analysis reveal that local meanings of the HAPPY vowel vary further within distinctive community of practice styles, which is the result of how ethnicity and social class intersect in structuring local social practices. (Intersectionality, indexicality, social meaning, identity, ethnicity, social class)*

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Section: Tense Happy and Pro-school Stylesmentioning

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Intersectionality and the social meanings of variation: Class, ethnicity, and social practice

Kirkham

2015

Lang. Soc.

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“…For sociocultural linguists, this perspective forced closer attention to how subjectivity might emerge within the constraints and allowances of interaction. As Bucholtz and Hall (2004a, 2004b suggest in their review of this period, identity began to be viewed as a discursive construct that is both multiple and partial, materializing within the binds of everyday discourse.…”

Section: Multicultural and Interethnic Identitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Code‐Switching, Identity, and Globalization

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2015

The Handbook of Discourse Analysis

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“…Sexuality in these theoretical approaches is generally understood both as a form of identity (especially with respect to sexual orientation) and as a set of embodied practices (especially with respect to sexual activity) (Bucholtz and Hall 2004). Such feminist theories come from a broadly queer perspective in that they challenge binary and normative categories based on gender, sexuality, or both.…”

Section: Queering Feminism: From Gender To Sexuality and Back Againmentioning

confidence: 99%