Language Style as Identity Construction: A Footing and Framing Approach

Despite the prevalence of conceptualizations of style shifting as a reactive phenomenon, conditioned by contextual factors such as formality and audience, style shifting increasingly has come to be viewed as a proactive phenomenon which speakers freely use to shape and re-shape context, as well as their personal and interpersonal identities (e.g. California Style Collective 1993, Coupland forthcoming). In this presentation, we suggest that an explanation for style shifting based on the interactional sociolinguistic notions of footing and frame indexing (e.g. Goffman 1981, Tannen and Wallat 1993) provides a neat encapsulation of some of the central tenets of these more proactive approaches, while at the same time addressing their limitations

Post‐socialist language ideologies in action: Linking interview context and language ideology through stance

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Production, Perception and Patterning: "Performance" Speech in an Endangered Dialect Variety

Introduction In this presentation, I examine a speech register that has received little attention in mainstream sociolinguistic literature, performance speech. 1 Performance speech can be defined as the style of speech associated with speakers' attempting to display for others a certain language variety, whether a language or dialect alien to their own speech community or their own language or language variety. Because sociolinguists typically focus on utterances which minimize the attention paid to speech, they have tended to dismiss performance style, in which speakers focus on speech itself as they demonstrate for others what they perceive to be salient features of the language variety on display. Even in discussions of style which downplay the "attention to speech" criterion (e.g., Bell 1984), performance speech is cast aside, perhaps because it is considered unnatural, a mere byproduct of the sociolinguistic interview. However, a number of sociolinguist

Sustaining linguistic diversity: Endangered and minority languages and language varieties

In the last three decades the field of endangered and minority languages has evolved rapidly, moving from the initial dire warnings of linguists to a swift increase in the number of organizations, funding programs, and community-based efforts dedicated to documentation, maintenance, and revitalization. Sustaining Linguistic Diversity brings together cutting-edge theoretical and empirical work from leading researchers and practitioners in the field. Together, these contributions provide a state-of-the-art overview of current work in defining, documenting, and developing the world\u27s smaller languages and language varieties. The book begins by grappling with how we define endangermentùhow languages and language varieties are best classified, what the implications of such classifications are, and who should have the final say in making them. The contributors then turn to the documentation and description of endangered languages and focus on best practices, methods and goals in documentation, and on current field reports from around the globe. The latter part of the book analyzes current practices in developing endangered languages and dialects and particular language revitalization efforts and outcomes in specific locations. Concluding with critical calls from leading researchers in the field to consider the human lives at stake, Sustaining Linguistic Diversity reminds scholars, researchers, practitioners, and educators that linguistic diversity can only be sustained in a world where diversity in all its forms is valued