Yorkville Crossing: White Teens, Hip-Hop, and African American English

Cutler, Cecilia

doi:10.1007/978-1-349-92299-4_21

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“…WRS data can be used as a measure of the number of A8 citizens coming to work in the UK but they provide no indication of the length of stay and, because they exclude the self employed, it is likely that these figures significantly underestimate the actual number of A8 migrant workers in the UK. Eckert 1989, 2000, Bucholtz 1999, Cutler 1999, Mendoza-Denton 2008, Wagner 2008. In addition, the Polish teenagers who have migrated to the UK have particularly intense contact with native-born peers and through immersion in the school system they have considerable opportunities to acquire local norms of variation.…”

Section: Polish Migration To the Ukmentioning

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Teenagers’ acquisition of variation

Schleef

Meyerhoff

Clark

2011

EWW

101

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Variation conferences have provided helpful formative feedback. We alone are responsible for any failings in this paper. The high schools we worked in remain anonymous, but we owe a debt of great magnitude to the staff and students in Edinburgh and London who worked with us on this project. We admire and respect the individuals in these schools for the work they are doing. In particular, our thanks go to the migrant teenagers, for some of whom the interview and reading tasks were a major effort. Wielkie dzieki! 2In recent years, the UK has experienced unparalleled numbers of migrants from Eastern Europe, particularly Poland. Many migrants came with their families. We examined variation in the English spoken by adolescent Polish migrants in Edinburgh and London. We asked: To what extent are teenage Polish migrants acquiring the patterns of variation typical of their local peer group? We compare the results for the well-known variable (ing) in the speech of both Polish migrants and their same age British peers. Our results indicate that the Polish teenagers seem to be sensitive to the overall rates of the non-standard variant in the city they have moved to. Moreover, Polish teenagers also replicate some of the linguistic and social constraints found in the speech of the locally-born teens. In some cases, they partially replicate the constraint patterns found in the locally-born teenagers, and in other cases they introduce novel constraints unattested in the speech of their locally-born peers. The results of our study raise several questions regarding local shared constraints and universal learning tools, potential supra-local constraints and the status of (ing) as a sociolinguistic variable for learners of English. We discuss these in the final section of this paper.

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Section: Polish Migration To the Ukmentioning

confidence: 99%

Teenagers’ acquisition of variation

Schleef

Meyerhoff

Clark

2011

EWW

101

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“…Through language, young people lay claim to multiple identity resources and thereby construct dynamic identities that challenge established notions of collectivities based on skin color, parental background, year or place of birth, and other static markers of identification. As recent linguistic research on youth identity has shown, young people as actors and subjects construct selves and others via multidimensional and interpenetrating discourses of ethnicity, language, gender, sexuality, nation, race, and culture (e.g., Alim 2004aAlim , 2006Androutsopoulos & Georgakopoulou 2003;Bucholtz 1999;Cutler 1999;Doran 2003;Giampapa 2001;Heller 1999;Lo 1999;Mendoza-Denton 2008;Pujolar 2001;Rampton 1995Rampton , 2006Reyes 2007;Roth-Gordon 2007;Rumbaut 2002;Shenk 2007;Skapoulli 2004;Tetreault 2002;Warriner 2007).…”

Section: Youth Studies In Global Timesmentioning

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Introduction youth language at the intersection

Bucholtz¹,

Skapoulli²

2022

PRAG

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This special issue examines the linguistic production of youth identities under conditions of cultural mobility. Building on theories of migration, transnationalism, and globalization that have emerged in anthropology, cultural studies, and other fields, the contributions to the special issue investigate not simply the large-scale cultural and political processes that shape the lives of youth but equally how youth identities emerge through the fine-grained details of interactional work and local linguistic practice. The introduction lays out the major themes that run through the special issue: the importance of scholarly attentiveness to the diversity of youth identities; the recognition of youth as social agents moving across national boundaries both physically and symbolically; the role of local ethnographic practice in investigations of global and transnational phenomena and especially the centrality of interaction as the primary site of social life; and the significance of language as a key resource for the articulation and negotiation of social identities, relations, and processes.

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“…Esta idea llevó a una avalancha de investigaciones idiolectales, esperando o creyendo, de esta forma, poder determinar los motivos de la variación estilística. De hecho, muchos de estos análisis presentados como estudios dialectales se limitan a la descripción de las realizaciones lingüísticas de una sola persona en diferentes (muchas veces sólo dos) contextos o momentos, como ilustra el estudio de caso realizado por Cutler (1999). Ahora bien, cabe señalar que este tipo de trabajos precisamente no permite examinar la posible gama de variación estilística que es posible en el seno de una variedad y tampoco posibilita la diferenciación de los rasgos meramente idiolectales.…”

Section: La Lingüística De Variedades Y Sus Conceptos Centralesunclassified

El Problema De Las Variantes Fraseológicas Desde La Perspectiva De La Lingüística De Variedades

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Plasencia

2016

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RESuMENLos trabajos sobre fraseología aún no han podido dar con una respuesta satisfactoria a la pregunta de cómo establecer una diferenciación nítida entre lo que suele llamarse, en esta área, variantes, variaciones y modificaciones de las unidades fraseológicas. Este mismo problema tiene su paralelo en la lingüística de variedades. Esta rama de la lingüística persigue, entre otros objetivos, la distinción y clasificación de variedades y variantes de una lengua. Una de las cuestiones clásicas de la lingüística de variedades tiene que ver, precisamente, con la dificultad de trazar una neta separación entre diferentes lectos, idiolecto, por un lado, y sociolecto y funciolecto, por el otro. Nuestra contribución indaga en este paralelismo, profundizando en los solapamientos de las dos áreas de estudio y en las dimensiones teórica y terminológica del problema. Se realizará un análisis crítico de los diferentes enfoques teórico-metodológicos que se han presentado hasta ahora en ambos campos y se ofrecerá una nueva propuesta que prestará especial atención a la posibilidad de unir los ámbitos de la fraseología y de la lingüística de variedades para obtener una solución al difícil problema de las variantes fraseológicas.Palabras clave: Unidades fraseológicas, variantes, criterios de diferenciación, lingüística de variedades.

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Yorkville Crossing: White Teens, Hip-Hop, and African American English

Cited by 92 publications

References 8 publications

Teenagers’ acquisition of variation

Teenagers’ acquisition of variation

Introduction youth language at the intersection

El Problema De Las Variantes Fraseológicas Desde La Perspectiva De La Lingüística De Variedades

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