The New Sociolinguistics Reader 2009
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-92299-4_15
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‘Why be Normal?’: Language and Identity Practices in a Community of Nerd Girls

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“…She hypothesized that this was due to the variable's link to education, more valued for men than women in the community. Bucholtz (1999) reported increased use of /t/ release among ''nerd girls'' in a California high school as compared to other girls. Podesva (2006) explored different dimensions of the release with data from a single speaker across two dissimilar situations.…”
Section: Variablesmentioning
confidence: 88%
“…She hypothesized that this was due to the variable's link to education, more valued for men than women in the community. Bucholtz (1999) reported increased use of /t/ release among ''nerd girls'' in a California high school as compared to other girls. Podesva (2006) explored different dimensions of the release with data from a single speaker across two dissimilar situations.…”
Section: Variablesmentioning
confidence: 88%
“…And our third research question is: What evidence do we find of identity construction or the taking up and dropping of identities directly related to the use of language in this study? We are able to build on the many language and identity studies that have been completed in the last decades (Bucholtz, 1999;Lee, Hill-Bonnet, & Raley, 2011;Rampton, 1995Rampton, , 1997Rampton, , 1999Rampton, , 2006, and other researchers have written about advantageous bilingual discourse practices, including many who have written about translanguaging in recent years (Bialystok, 2013;Canagarajah, 2011;Garcia & Wei, 2013), but this study is the first internationally published work on migrant students' use of informal and formal Spanish and English in scholastic debates.…”
Section: Research Questionsmentioning
confidence: 95%
“…Joseph shows us how speakers' fundamental social need to construct and project the identities they assign to themselves and their interlocutors through discourse -and other semiotic systems -is interrelated with the creation and development of language. Benwell and Stokoe (2006) and Bucholtz andHall (2003, 2005) offer useful and insightful summaries of the particularly thorny questions of determining and delimiting identity in terms of both the essentialist and the social constructionist approach.…”
Section: Basic Concepts and Research Questions For A Theory Of Identimentioning
confidence: 98%