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Yan Jia; Suzanne Aalberse; Leonie Cornips – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2025
This article focuses on cultured identity construction via linguistic stylization among young domestic and external Chinese migrants. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Beijing, China and the Netherlands, this study contends that self-defined "Hanfu" fans stylize the classical "Wenyan" register to invoke and align with a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Asians, Self Concept, Cross Cultural Studies
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Botsis, Hannah; Kronlund Rimfors, Mari; Jonsson, Rickard – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2022
This article investigates how a contemporary urban vernacular (CUV) called Ortensvenska is used for social positioning at a prestigious inner-city Stockholm school. Previous studies have indicated that CUV is often a feature of those on the societal margins, but little research has focused on prestigious spaces where high-achieving students…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Urban Schools, Ethnography, Social Status
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Boualem, Fadia; Guerroudj, Noureddine – Arab World English Journal, 2020
This paper depicts how exiles are psychologically damaged by language loss and how the latter engenders identity crises that affect the characters and destabilize their identity constructs. Linguistically speaking, although expatriates living outside their home countries master English more than their native words, they can circulate both…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Biculturalism, Self Concept, English (Second Language)
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Blau, Shane – Sign Language Studies, 2017
A sociolinguistic style consists of a set of linguistic resources that carry specific meaning within a social context (Campbell-Kibler 2011). One such resource is the use of phonetic variants that do not change the denotative meaning of a word, but are different enough to be recognized as unique. This type of socially constrained phonetic…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Self Concept, Deafness, LGBTQ People
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Higgins, Christina – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2015
This article discusses how stylization sheds light on the role of authenticity as an increasingly relevant concept in sociolinguistics. Building on research on style, crossing, and mock language use, the article demonstrates how multilingual stylization provides speakers with a wider range of resources for navigating and negotiating borders and…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Styles, Ethnicity, Role
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Baker, John R. – Journal of English as an International Language, 2019
This paper, through the use of Joycean narrative inquiry, offers a qualitative narrative analysis of two types of language input the South Korean community was exposed to when the doors opened to a large number of western teachers in 1993 (i.e., General American and Received Pronunciation). Specifically, this paper provides examples of lexical…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Foreign Countries, Linguistic Input, Pronunciation
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Magro, José L. – Education for Information, 2018
The aim of this article is to shed light on the particularities of language choice (Spanish, English, and hybridity) and identity performance among urban music (UM) affiliated individuals from Hispanic immigrant backgrounds interacting through Instagram. The participants reside in Da DMV, an emic term used to refer to the Washington DC (DC)…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Self Concept, Spanish, English (Second Language)
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Aggarwal, Garima – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2015
This commentary contextualises Bakhtin's ideas on language in education, with a special emphasis on his construct of dialogism, by producing and examining excerpts from two of his major works. These excerpts familiarise the reader with Bakhtin's four fundamental constructs: "utterance," "dialogism," "heteroglossia,"…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Dialogs (Language), Language Styles, Language Attitudes
Isla Flores-Bayer – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Because language, as a method of communication, is a two-way channel involving both speakers and listeners, a methodical study of linguistic variation should involve an analysis of both, how it is expressed and how it is interpreted. Furthermore, because language is known to vary between individuals (inter-speaker variation) as well as at the…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Language Variation, Language Styles, Audio Equipment
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Van Compernolle, Remi A.; Williams, Lawrence – Modern Language Journal, 2012
This article presents 2 case studies of intermediate university students of French, Casey and Melanie (both pseudonyms), and their developing use and understanding of stylistic variation over the course of an academic semester. It draws from a variety of data sources: classroom observation, learners' explanations of stylistic variants, learners'…
Descriptors: Assignments, Observation, Second Language Learning, Language Role
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White, John Wesley – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2011
When trying to utilize class discussions as an effective pedagogical tool, teachers need to be aware of the conflicts that may arise due to issues of personal and cultural representation, linguistic differences, and misunderstandings of the tacit "rules" for participation. Because of cultural and linguistic variances in student populations, not…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Linguistics, Student Participation, Grading
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Preece, Sian – Language and Education, 2010
This paper examines linguistic diversity among minority ethnic undergraduate students categorised as from widening participation backgrounds in a new university in London. All students are British born and educated and from working-class families. The paper considers how the students negotiate multilingual and bidialectal identities within the…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Undergraduate Students, Higher Education, Multilingualism
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Shankar, Shalini – Review of Research in Education, 2011
Recent studies of Asian American youth language practices have presented compelling insights about the identities and migration experiences of young people of Asian descent. This article offers a detailed examination of the relationship between language use and select issues concerning Asian American youth, including social life, schooling,…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Social Life, Adolescents, Migration