| Staging Language: Place and Identity in the Enactment, Performance and Representation of Regional Dialects Contributor(s): Clark, Urszula (Author) |
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ISBN: 1501515411 ISBN-13: 9781501515415 Publisher: Walter de Gruyter OUR PRICE: $137.74 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Historical & Comparative - Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies |
| Dewey: 417.7 |
| LCCN: 2018959331 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.3" W x 9.2" (0.75 lbs) 188 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Although there are many studies on linguistic variation as it relates to both traditional and new media such as film, TV, newspapers, and online behavior, little has been written about spoken performance in overt but face-to-face conversations. This book bridges that gap, and focuses on an in between zone between casual face-to-face conversations and the type of heavily scripted language of most traditional spoken media. The book draws upon a substantial amount of empirical data in its investigation of the role played by performance texts in creating, maintaining and challenging imagined communities and focuses upon the ways in which performance contributes to people's sense of the kinds of use for which dialect/variational use is appropriate and those for which it is not. It sheds light on how such stylization intersects with multiple social indexes and how performers and other creative artists challenge and mock hegemonic practices through enregistering a defined set of linguistic variables in the context of their performance and other associated written texts. |
