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IDENTITY AND DIALECT PERFORMANCE Identity and Dialect Performance discusses the relationship between identity and dia- lects. It starts from the assumption that the use of dialects is not just a product of social and demographic factors, but can also be an intentional performance of identity. Dialect performance is related to identity construction and in a highly globalised world, the linguistic repertoire has increased rapidly, thereby changing our conventional assumptions about dialects and their usage. The key outstanding feature of this particular book is that it spans an exten- sive range of communities and dialects; Canada, Colombia, Egypt, French Guiana, Germany, Italy, Japan, Libya, Morocco, Nigeria, Scotland, Senegal, Spain, Syria, The Netherlands, The Sudan, and the UK and US. Reem Bassiouney is Professor of Linguistics at The American University of Cairo Her recent book publications include Functions of Code-Switching in Egypt (2006), Arabic Sociolinguistics (2008), Arabic and the Media (2010, editor), Arabic Language and Linguistics (2012, co-editor), Language and Identity in Modern Egypt (2014), and The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics (forthcoming, co-editor). Routledge Studies in Language and Identity Series Editor: Reem Bassiouney The Routledge Studies in Language and Identity (RSLI) series aims to examine the intricate relation between language and identity from different perspectives. The series straddles fields such as sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, applied lin- guistics, historical linguistics and linguistic anthropology. It aims to study identity and language by utilizing novel methods of analysis as well as ground breaking theoretical approaches. Titles in series: Arabic in Israel: Language, Identity and Conflict Muhammad Amara Identity and Dialect Performance: A Study of Communities and Dialects Reem Bassiouney For more titles, please visit www.routledge.com/languages/series/RSLI IDENTITY AND DIALECT PERFORMANCE A Study of Communities and Dialects Edited by Reem Bassiouney First published 2018 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2018 selection and editorial matter, Reem Bassiouney; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Reem Bassiouney to be identified as the author of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Bassiouney, Reem, 1973– editor. Title: Identity and dialect performance : a study of communities and dialects / edited by Reem Bassiouney. Description: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge, 2017. | Includes index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017018132 (print) | LCCN 2017027081 (ebook) | ISBN 9781315279732 (eBook) | ISBN 9781315279725 (pdf) | ISBN 9781315279718 (ePub) | ISBN 9781315279701 (Mobipocket) | ISBN 9781138241756 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781138241787 (pbk. : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Dialectology. | Languages in contact. | Group identity. Classification: LCC P367 (ebook) | LCC P367 .I33 2017 (print) | DDC 417/.2—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017018132 ISBN: 978-1-138-24175-6 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-138-24178-7 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-27973-2 (ebk) Typeset in Bembo by Apex CoVantage, LLC CONTENTS List of figures viii List of tables x List of contributors xi Acknowledgements xvii Introduction 1 PART I Dialects in localised and delocalised contexts 15 1 Nonstandard dialect and identity 17 John Edwards 2 The elusive dialect border 35 Dick Smakman and Marten van der Meulen 3 Dialect performances in superdiverse communities: The case for ethnographic approaches to language variation 49 Anna De Fina vi Contents PART II Nation-states and identity construction in relation to a standard and a dialect 69 4 The construction of linguistic borders and the rise of national identity in South Sudan: Some insights into Juba Arabic (Árabi Júba) 71 Stefano Manfredi 5 From language to dialect and back: The case of Piedmontese 86 Mauro Tosco 6 Darija and the construction of “Moroccanness” 99 Dominique Caubet 7 “Sloppy speech is like sloppy dress”: Folk attitudes towards nonstandard British English 125 Carmen Ebner PART III Contact, variation, performance and metalinguistic discourse 141 8 From varieties in contact to the selection of linguistic resources in multilingual settings 143 Isabelle Léglise and Santiago Sánchez Moreano 9 “You live in the United States, you speak English,” decían las maestras: How New Mexican Spanish speakers enact, ascribe, and reject ethnic identities 160 Katherine O’Donnell Christoffersen and Naomi L. Shin 10 The social meanings of Wolof and French: Contact dialects, language ideology, and competing modernities in Senegal 179 Fiona Mc Laughlin 11 The social value of linguistic practices in Tetouan and Ghomara (Northwestern Morocco) 192 Ángeles Vicente and Amina Naciri-Azzouz Contents vii 12 New presentations of self in everyday life: Linguistic transgressions in England, Germany, and Japan 210 Patrick Heinrich 13 Language and identity in Siwa Oasis: Indexing belonging, localness, and authenticity in a small minority community 226 Valentina Serreli PART IV The media, dialect performance, and language variation 243 14 YouTube Yinzers: Stancetaking and the performance of ‘Pittsburghese’ 245 Scott F. Kiesling 15 Performing identity on screen: Language, identity, and humour in Scottish television comedy 265 Natalie Braber 16 Identity, repertoire, and performance: The case of an Egyptian poet 286 Reem Bassiouney 17 Ruination and amusement – dialect, youth, and revolution in Naija 303 Anne Storch 18 Dialectal variation and identity in post-revolutionary Libyan media: The case of Dragunov (2014) 321 Luca D’Anna 19 The effect of TV and internal vs. external contact on variation in Syrian rural child language 340 Rania Habib Index 357 FIGURES 3.1 Percentage of turns with Sicilian by day. 55 3.2 Marked vs. neutral speech acts in Sicilian. 60 3.3 Distribution of marked speech acts (boys and girls). 61 6.1 Telquel magazine, June 2002 © Dominique Caubet. 109 6.2 Le Journal Hebdomadaire; drawing by Beyoud. © Dominique Caubet. 112 8.1 Imbabura and Chimborazo. 149 14.1 Pitch track of an example of the L*+H L% falling question intonation. 255 14.2 Frame of Donny from the ‘Idlewild’ episode. Approximately line 51 in the transcript. 256 14.3 Frame grab of Kreutzer from the ‘Idlewild’ episode. Approximately line 50 in the transcript. 256 14.4 Frame grab of Greg from the ‘Idlewild’ episode. Approximately line 50 in the transcript. 257 15.1 Glasgow mug design, used with permission, Sprint Design, Glasgow. 272 15.2 Drinks coaster with local phrase (this is a catch phrase from Chewin’ the Fat), used with permission, Sprint Design, Glasgow. 272 15.3 Ned (this is not from Chewin’ the Fat as no images were available, but of a Glaswegian comedian, Neil Bratchpiece, dressed as a ned). Used with permission, Creative Commons Attribution Licence. 275 15.4 Banter Boy: Gary, used with copyright permission BBC. 276 17.1 About Naija lingo (Ofunne & Nwokogba 2007: http://www. naijalingo.com/about). 311 17.2 Revolutionary collections of ‘campus slang’ (Chigozie 2015). 312 17.3 Musings of a Crazy Nigerian (Farouk 2012). 313 Figures ix 17.4 Blasted English (http://www.nairaland.com/2132954/girl- failed-english-exam). 316 19.1 Main effects of the fixed effects TV, internal and external contacts. Fixed Effects Target: [ʔ] / (q) 350 19.2 The effect of internal contact with friends and relatives who use [ʔ] predominantly on the use of [q] vs. [ʔ]. 350 19.3 Coefficients indicating the significant categories within each fixed factor. Fixed coefficients target: [ʔ] / (q) 351
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