Screen LibraryIndexing authenticity : sociolinguistic perspectives /
What does it mean to be authentic? How is authenticity indexed in contexts of language expression? Authenticity is considered a driving force of individuals behaviour and is evaluated according to cultural contexts and mediated by and expressed in language. This volume examines the meanings of lingu...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Linguae & litterae;
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| Summary: |
What does it mean to be authentic? How is authenticity indexed in contexts of language expression? Authenticity is considered a driving force of individuals behaviour and is evaluated according to cultural contexts and mediated by and expressed in language. This volume examines the meanings of linguistic authenticity and problematises the authentic speaker as reflecting a complex and dynamic deployment of sociolinguistic and pragmatic resources. |
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1 online resource (vi, 370 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110347012 |
| Index Number: | P381 |
| CLC: | H0 |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Authenticity: A view from inside and outside sociolinguistics / Language, society and authenticity: Themes and perspectives / The trouble with authenticity / Chinese social practice and San Franciscan authenticity / Being more alternative and less Brit-pop: The quest for originality in three urban styles in Athens / "100 % Authentic Pittsburgh": Sociolinguistic authenticity and the linguistics of particularity / Oh boy, hablas espa ol? Salsa and the multiple value of authenticity in late capitalism / The commodification of authenticity / The race from place: Dialect eradication vs. the linguistic "authenticity" of terroir / Reported Speech as an authentication tactic in computer-mediated communication / Authenticity in dialect performance? / From vernacular to digital ethnolinguistic repertoire: The case of Nigerian Pidgin / Hybridity as authenticity in Nigerian hip-hop lyrics / Authentic writing / Lexical variation at the internationalized university: Are indexicality and authenticity always relevant? / "Real communities", rhetorical borders: Authenticating British identity in political discourse and on-line debate / What s in a promesse authentique? Doubting and confirming authenticity in 17th-century French diplomacy / Index. |