Indexing authenticity : sociolinguistic perspectives / edited by Véronique Lacoste, Jakob Leimgruber, Thiemo Breyer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lacoste, Véronique, editor.

Leimgruber, Jakob, editor.

Breyer, Thiemo, editor.

Series:

Linguae & litterae ; Volume 39.

linguae & litterae, 1869-7054 ; Volume 39

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociolinguistics.

Authenticity (Philosophy).

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The concept of authenticity has received some attention in recent academic discourse, yet it has often been left under-defined from a sociolinguistic perspective. This volume presents the contributions of a wide range of scholars who exchanged their views on the topic at a conference in Freiburg, Germany, in November 2011. The authors address three leading questions: What are the local meanings of authenticity embedded in large cultural and social structures? What is the meaning of linguistic authenticity in delocalised and/or deterritorialised settings? How is authenticity indexed in other contexts of language expression (e.g. in writing or in political discourse)? These questions are tackled by recognised experts in the fields of sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and contact linguistics. While by no means exhaustive, the volume offers a large array of case studies that contribute significantly to our understanding of the meaning of authenticity in language production and perception.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Authenticity: A view from inside and outside sociolinguistics / Lacoste, Véronique / Leimgruber, Jakob / Breyer, Thiemo

Language, society and authenticity: Themes and perspectives / Coupland, Nikolas

Section I: Indexing local meanings of authenticity

The trouble with authenticity / Eckert, Penelope

Chinese social practice and San Franciscan authenticity / Hall-Lew, Lauren

Being more alternative and less Brit-pop: The quest for originality in three urban styles in Athens / Kailoglou, Lefteris

"100 % Authentic Pittsburgh": Sociolinguistic authenticity and the linguistics of particularity / Johnstone, Barbara

'Oh boy, ¿hablas español?' - Salsa and the multiple value of authenticity in late capitalism / Schneider, Britta

The commodification of authenticity / Heller, Monica

Section 2: Indexing authenticity in delocalised settings

The race from place: Dialect eradication vs. the linguistic "authenticity" of terroir / Silverstein, Michael

Reported Speech as an authentication tactic in computer-mediated communication / Jones, Graham M.

Authenticity in dialect performance? / Moll, Andrea

From vernacular to digital ethnolinguistic repertoire: The case of Nigerian Pidgin / Heyd, Theresa / Mair, Christian

Hybridity as authenticity in Nigerian hip-hop lyrics / Akande, Akinmade T.

Section 3: Authenticity construction in other mediatised contexts

Authentic writing / Coulmas, Florian

Lexical variation at the internationalized university: Are indexicality and authenticity always relevant? / Hultgren, Anna Kristina

"Real communities", rhetorical borders: Authenticating British identity in political discourse and on-line debate / Gill, Martin

What's in a promesse authentique? Doubting and confirming authenticity in 17th-century French diplomacy / Sprondel, Johanna / Haug, Tilman

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters, discographies and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 9, 2015).

ISBN:

9783110384604

3110384604

9783110347012

3110347016

OCLC:

894739978