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Elordui, Agurtzane – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2018
Vernaculars are increasingly used in media. They are considered to be stylistic resources to attract audiences and to construct media identities. That increase seems to be particularly significant in the case of youth media, which is also the case of Gaztea, a youth webradio station within the Basque public EITB group that we analyse in this work.…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Usage, Mass Media, Foreign Countries
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Vidal, Mónica – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2015
Taking an interactional sociolinguistic approach, this study explores how multicultural and multilingual siblings interact with their Spanish grandfather and how, through the use of styling and stylization in these interactions, they negotiate and construct multicultural family identities. Using Tannen's power and solidarity framework, I analyze…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Cultural Pluralism, Multilingualism, Spanish
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Hernandez-Campoy, Juan Manuel; Cutillas-Espinosa, Juan Antonio – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2013
The present study focuses on the language attitudes underlying patterns of stylistic variation in the speech of a female former President of the Spanish local Government of Murcia. We build on previous quantitative work demonstrating that this speaker shows unexpectedly high usage levels for nonstandard Murcian Spanish features in public speech,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Language Attitudes, Language Styles, Spanish