Junk Spanish, covert racism, and the (leaky) boundary between public and private spheres

Hill, Jane H.

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“…Previous studies of language crossing have reminded us that speakers can and do make use of languages and varieties associated with other groups. White Americans cross into African-American Vernacular English (Bucholtz 1997;Cutler 1996;Preston 1992); Afro-Caribbean and Anglo youngsters in London use bits of Punjabi (Rampton 1991(Rampton , 1995a(Rampton , 1995b; Anglo-Americans use Spanish words and phrases (Hill 1993(Hill , 1995, and so on. In all these cases, the crosses are into languages or varieties that are not those the speakers learned ®rst, not those they use most, not those they know best; languages or varieties that are quite clearly not part of the unmarked repertoire of the groups with which they are primarily associated by others or primarily identify themselves.…”

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Uses of Southern‐sounding speech by contemporary Texas women

Johnstone

1999

Journal of Sociolinguistics

112

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Anglo-Texas women typically do not think of themselves as Southerners, but many can use speech forms that came to Texas from the American South. The relationship of Texas women to Southern speech is complex, and Texas women orient to and use Southern forms in various ways. Several of the possibilities are brie¯y illustrated. These examples serve to raise questions about language crossing and stylization in contexts in which the variety being adopted does not clearly`belong' to an outgroup, and to suggest some new avenues for thought about what`regional varieties' are and how regionally-marked speech forms can serve as rhetorical resources.

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Uses of Southern‐sounding speech by contemporary Texas women

Johnstone

1999

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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“…In my data, I explored how individuals supporting the Lega Nord/Liga Veneta Repubblica perform barzellette with frequent shifts from Standard Italian into Venetan as they enact and mock migrants' voices. In this light, multilanguage joke-telling is not only a resource for expressing "tacit racism" (Hill, 1995(Hill, , 2008, but also for positioning audiences who are its hearers (Perrino, 2015). By mocking migrants in Venetan, for example, Veneto speakers iconically model the jokes' 'concealment' or 'containment'das if limiting their jokes' accessibility and potential offensiveness to an imagined audience of Italian-speaking migrants by choosing Venetan over Standard Italian.…”

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“…Drawing on Jaffe and Walton's (2011) recent work on stance in the blogosphere as a way to unveil unspoken stereotypes about race and class through the use of humor, this article looks at various offline sites in which racializing remarks help include, totally or partially, speech participants. Through the stance that certain blog commenters take while using humor, for example, Walton and Jaffe unveil patterns of "tacit racism" (Hill, 1995(Hill, , 2008Perrino, 2015) and classism (Jaffe and Walton, 2011: 204). In a similar vein, I examine how racialized remarks made by Northern Italians are discursively performed in ways that can enact migrants' exclusions at times, while creating more intimate spaces with other speech participants.…”

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Exclusionary intimacies: Racialized language in Veneto, Northern Italy

Perrino

2018

Language & Communication

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“…Finally, I am grateful to the UK ESRC for funding the research that the article refers to (Projects 00232390, R 000 23 6602 and RES 148 25 0042). 2 See, for example, Hill 1993Hill , 1995Hill , 2005Coupland 2001Coupland , 2007Rampton 2005Rampton , 1999Rampton , 2006Pagliai & Farr 2000, Eckert 2000Lo & Reyes 2004;and Auer 2007 . 3 For comparable range in the characterization of stylization itself, see Coupland 2007 :112-15, 154.…”

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Interaction ritual and not just artful performance in crossing and stylization

Rampton¹

2009

Lang. Soc.

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A B S T R A C T As Coupland and others show, Bauman's account of "performance" provides a valuable perspective on speech stylization across a range of public contexts. This article explores the limitations of performance as a window on crossing and stylization in everyday practice, and although recognizing other frames as well, it dwells on Goffman's interaction ritual, cross-referring to two studies of adolescents in England. In the fi rst, race and ethnicity were controversial, and the performance of other-ethnic styles was risky. But interaction ritual constructed crossing and stylization as urgent responses to the exigencies of the moment, and this made them more acceptable. In the second, performance implies a refl exive composure that is hard to reconcile with informants' experience of social class as an uncomfortable but only half-articulated issue, whereas interaction ritual provides a sharp lens on how youngsters used stylized "posh" and Cockney varieties to register their apprehension of ongoing stratifi cation. (Interaction ritual, stylization, crossing, performance) 1 T h e P r o b l e mSpeech stylization and language crossing have been the focus of a good deal of sociolinguistic interest in recent years. 2 Stylization involves refl exive communicative action in which speakers produce specially marked and often exaggerated representations of languages, dialects, and styles that lie outside their own habitual repertoire (at least as this is perceived within the situation at hand). Crossing is closely related, but it involves a stronger sense of social or ethnic boundary transgression, the variants being used are more likely to be seen as anomalously "other" for the speaker, and questions of legitimacy and entitlement can arise. As pointedly non-habitual speech practices, stylization and crossing break with ordinary modes of action and interpretation, invite attention to creative agency in language use, and often also contribute to the denaturalization of hegemonic language ideologies.

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Junk Spanish, covert racism, and the (leaky) boundary between public and private spheres

Cited by 136 publications

References 3 publications

Uses of Southern‐sounding speech by contemporary Texas women

Uses of Southern‐sounding speech by contemporary Texas women

Exclusionary intimacies: Racialized language in Veneto, Northern Italy

Interaction ritual and not just artful performance in crossing and stylization

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