Portraits of “the Whiteman”

Basso, Keith H.

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“…Anthropology is an especially important partner; anthropological linguistics, developed from the work of Franz Boas and his students and their efforts to describe and document the endangered languages of North America, and linguistic anthropology, tied to the programmatic statements of Dell Hymes (1974), constitute important tributaries to this intellectual stream. Especially attractive to folklorists are such works in this anthropological vein as Dennis Tedlock's program for attending to the acoustic textures of oral communication (Tedlock 1971(Tedlock , 1972 and Keith Basso's treatment of joking imitations among the Western Apache (Basso 1979).…”

Section: A Mid-century Crossroads Of Ideasmentioning

confidence: 99%

Folklore and Sociolinguistics

McDowell

2018

Humanities

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Folklore and sociolinguistics exist in a symbiotic relationship; more than that, at points-in the ethnography of communication and in ethnopoetics, for example-they overlap and become indistinguishable. As part of a reaction to the formal rigor and social detachment of Chomsky's theoretical linguistics, sociolinguistics emerges in the mid-twentieth century to assess the role of language in social life. Folklorists join the cause and bring to it a commitment to in-depth ethnography and a longstanding engagement with artistic communication. In this essay, I trace key phases in the development of this interdisciplinary movement, revolutionary in its reorientation of language study to the messy but fascinating realm of speech usage. I offer the concept of performative efficacy, the notion that expressive culture performances have the capacity to shape attitude and action and thereby transform perceived realities, as a means of capturing the continuing promise of a sociolinguistically informed folkloristics.

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Section: A Mid-century Crossroads Of Ideasmentioning

confidence: 99%

Folklore and Sociolinguistics

McDowell

2018

Humanities

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“…The general expectation among teens is that the target should respond in kind by "outing" his or her opponent or refrain from getting angry in order to save face. The insults, rumors, and mocking involved in these performances are couched in the voice of the TV show host precisely so that they may be framed and later claimed as "just play," albeit a "dangerous" sort (Basso 1979 ).…”

Section: Specifi C Features Of Tv Host Register In Interview Show Formatmentioning

confidence: 99%

Citéteens entextualizing French TV host register: Crossing, voicing, and participation frameworks

Tetreault

2009

Lang. Soc.

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This article addresses data that reside at the confluence of three types of linguistic “crossing” (Rampton 1995) among working-class French teens of predominantly Algerian descent. Strategically using the microphone of the researcher to imitate an elite French television show host, performers create indirect reported speech and direct stylized voicing for present peers and thereby mock them as show “guests.” Through analysis of such data, this article contributes to scholarship that extends and refines Goffman’s notions of footing and participation frameworks, and the relationships imaginable between them. It is argued that the notions of noncongruent voicing effects and generalized footing can lead to a more sophisticated understanding of the relationship between language crossing and participation frameworks. More specifically, analyzing language crossing in terms of the resultant voicing effects sheds light upon the nuanced ways that speakers manage participation frameworks. (Register, crossing, footing, participation frameworks, voicing)

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“…In such cases they are usually referring to nonconventionalized forms of speech used in everyday conversation, not "abnormal types of speech" (for an exception see Sapir 1958Sapir [1915 on Nootka; see also Basso 1979). Here, however, the focus is on just such a speech style, one that underscores and reinforces certain aspects of a generic Indian image.…”

Section: H O W ! W H I T E M a N : T H E G Rmentioning

confidence: 99%