Sociolinguistics from the Periphery

Pietikäinen, Sari; Jaffe, Alexandra; Kelly‐Holmes, Helen; Coupland, Nikolas

doi:10.1017/cbo9781316403617

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“…In so doing, the study adds a new angle to the current strand of research examining the ongoing revaluation of minoritised languages in contemporary globalisation (e.g. Pietikäinen et al 2016; Kelly-Holmes 2014).…”

Section: Minoritised Languages and The Politics Of Emotionmentioning

confidence: 96%

Music video covers, minoritised languages, and affective investments in the space of YouTube

Dlaske

2017

Lang. Soc.

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While interest in affective processes has led to an affective turn in cultural studies, in sociolinguistics this perspective has been given less attention. This study takes up the ‘lens of affect’ and directs it on two cases exemplifying the circulation of minoritised languages in new media spaces: music video covers from two minority-language contexts, Irish and Sámi, uploaded on YouTube. Combining recent theorising on affect with insights from sociolinguistic research, the study investigates how the YouTube users’ affective investments contribute to a (re)evaluation of the two minoritised languages, their speakers, and the related ethnic/national belongings, and how these investments are expressions of more or less banal nationalism, connected to the colonial histories of Ireland and Finland. The study illustrates how the social media operate as a catalyst of affective investments involved in an ethnolinguistic (re)ordering of languages and their speakers, at the intersection of ‘banal globalisation’ and ‘everyday nationalism’. (Minority languages, affect, discourse, social media, nationalism)*

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Section: Minoritised Languages and The Politics Of Emotionmentioning

confidence: 96%

Music video covers, minoritised languages, and affective investments in the space of YouTube

Dlaske

2017

Lang. Soc.

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“…The fake Sámi figure embodies much of the controversy related to the commodification of Sámi resources for tourism (cf. Pietikäinen 2015; Pietikäinen, Kelly-Holmes, Jaffe & Coupland 2016).…”

Section: Data: Fake Sámi Skit In a Tv Comedy Showmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mocking fakeness

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Pietikäinen

2022

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Phonetic resources, like dialects and accents, are used in ethnic humour to build up a recognisable character that pokes fun at the stereotypes associated with a particular identity, sometimes with critical and political undertones. In this article, we examine the manipulation of one such resource, aspiration, used in performing and mocking one such clichéd character, called the fake Sámi. This character has a contested history in Finnish tourism and marketing practices, and is embedded in a long-standing debate about who can use emblems of Sámi identity for economic purposes. Adopting a sociophonetic language regard and folk linguistics approaches (Preston 2010; Niedzielski & Preston 2003) we explore how “fakeness” is constructed phonetically by the actors performing “Fake Sámi” in an indigenous Sámi television comedy show during a period of intense political debate in Finland over the legal definition of the category of indigenous Sámi. By analysing the use of hyperbolic aspiration of a prominent feature of Lappish Finnish dialect, the non-initial syllable /h/-sound, we show how the fakeness is performed by evoking linguistic stereotypes of a Finnish Lappish dialect and a Finnish English accent by a deliberate misuse of aspiration: aspirating when standard phonemes in speech should not be aspirated and not aspirating when phonemes should be aspirated. We argue that this kind of deliberate ambivalence and misuse of phonetic resources is a phonetic resource for reflexive postmodern identity performances.

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“…Low German thus shows typical characteristics of so-called small languages (Pietikäinen et al 2016), contested languages (Tamburelli and Tosco 2021), minority languages (Hogan-Brun and O'Rourke 2019; Arendt 2020) and their revitalization (Fishman 1991). This paper follows a dynamic approach to the constitution of small or contested languages, focusing on speakers as social actors, their language practices and the communities they create.…”

Section: Theoretical Foundation Of Language Attitudes Small Languagementioning

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A Long-Lasting CofP of New and Native Speakers—Practices, Identities of Belonging and Motives for Participation

Arendt

2021

Languages

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Within sociolinguistic research on small languages like Low German, differentiation into new and native speakers has become established. The relationship between the two different groups of speakers is sometimes conceptualized as an insurmountable “gap”. In addition to different acquisition paths and competencies, identity discourses of belonging, authority and authenticity, as well as typical practices, are all crucial elements of these differences. Despite these differences, the intergenerational language-centered analog community of practice (CofP) “Plattdüütschkring” consisting of approximately 10 new and native speakers of the regional language Low German has existed since 2005. This article is based on an explorative case-study analyzing the network “Plattdüütschkring” as an example of successful cooperation between new speakers and native speakers on the basis of typical attitudes and linguistic practices. In order to gain authentic, subjectively experienced insights into identities, normative conceptions and individual language experiences within and outside the network, meta-linguistic reflections of the members themselves were analyzed. These meta-linguistic reflections were collected through narrative interviews with the same and different members at the two survey dates 2010/11 and 2020. The findings show norms of monolingual language use, narrative identities of a normative hierarchy of acquisition scenarios and competences as aspects of belonging. Social and learning-oriented and thus multiple individually appropriate functions of the network can explain the motivation for long-term membership. These outcomes help to understand the role of language attitudes in CofP in the language development of small languages as well as abstract characteristics of successful language-centered networks.

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Sociolinguistics from the Periphery

Cited by 138 publications

References 174 publications

Music video covers, minoritised languages, and affective investments in the space of YouTube

Music video covers, minoritised languages, and affective investments in the space of YouTube

Mocking fakeness

A Long-Lasting CofP of New and Native Speakers—Practices, Identities of Belonging and Motives for Participation

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