刊讯｜SSCI 期刊《社会中的语言》2022年第1-3期

LANGUAGE IN SOCIETY

Volume 51, Issue 1-3, 2021

LANGUAGE IN SOCIETY（SSCI一区，2021 IF：2.392）2022年第1-3期共发文20篇，其中研究性第1期研究性论文7篇，第2期7篇，第3期6篇。研究主题包括语言接触与变化、社交互动、叙事管理、自我参照、社交媒体等内容。

目录

Issue 1

■The social meaning of stylistic variability: Sociophonetic (in)variance in United States presidential candidates’ campaign rallies, by Annette D'Onofrio, Amelia Stecker, Pages 1–28.

■ Probing linguistic change in Arabic vernaculars: A sociohistorical perspective, by Enam Al-Wer, Uri Horesh, Deema Alammar, Hind Alaodini, Aziza Al-Essa, Areej Al-Hawamdeh, Khairia Al-Qahtani, Abeer Ab Hussain, Pages 29–50.

■ Jon Gotzon's syncretic bilingual parody: Pushing the boundaries of ‘authentic’ Basque, by Agurtzane Elordui, Pages 51–72.

■ ‘The words has been immigrate’: Chronotopes in context-shaping narrative co-construction about Taiwanese loanwords with Taiwanese Americans, by Ping-Hsuan Wang, Pages 73–94.

■ Self-authorizing action: On let me X in English social interaction, by Elliott M. Hoey, Pages 95–118.

■ The spatial logic of linguistic practice: Bourdieusian inroads into language and internationalization in academe, by Linus Salö, Pages 119–141.

■ Sri Lankan Tamil experiences of the home-land and host-land: The interaction between language and diasporic identity, by Lavanya Sankaran, Pages 143–166.

Issue 2

■ Formulating other minds in social interaction: Accountability and courses of action, by Jörg Zinken, Julia Kaiser, Pages 185–210.

■ Prosody and ideologies of embodiment: Variation in the use of pitch and articulation rate among fitness instructors, by Lewis Esposito, Chantal Gratton, Pages 211–236.

■ Membership categorization analysis of racism in an online discussion among neighbors, by Natasha Shrikant, Pages 237–258.

■Making privilege palatable: Normative sustainability in chefs’ Instagram discourse, by Gwynne Mapes, Andrew S. Ross, Pages 259–283.

■ Sounding like a father: The influence of regional dialect on perceptions of masculinity and fatherhood, by Sara King, Yi Ren, Kaori Idemaru, Cindi Sturtzsreetharan, Pages 285–308.

■ ‘The good English’: The ideological construction of the target language in adult ESOL, by Kelsey Swift, Pages 309–331.

■‘Keep calm, stay safe, and drink bubble tea’: Commodifying the crisis of Covid-19 in Singapore advertising, by Rebecca Lurie Starr, Christian Go, Vincent Pak, Pages 333–359.

Issue 3

■Managing narratives, managing identities: Language and credibility in legal consultations with asylum seekers, by Marie Jacobs, Katrijn Maryns, Pages 375–402.

■ When simple self-reference is too simple: Managing the categorical relevance of speaker self-presentation, by Kevin A. Whitehead, Gene H. Lerner, Pages 403–426.

■ Embedding in Shawi narrations: A quantitative analysis of embedding in a post-colonial Amazonian indigenous society, by Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia, Tomas Lehecka, Simon A. Claassen, A. A. K. Peute, Moisés Pinedo Escobedo, Segundo Pinedo Escobedo, Abimael Huiñapi Tangoa, Elio Yumi Pizango, Pages 427–451.

■ Normativity, power, and agency: On the chronotopic organization of orthographic conventions on social media, by Taraneh Sanei, Pages 453–480.

■The social meaning of a merger: The evaluation of an Andalusian Spanish consonant merger (ceceo), by Brendan Regan, Pages 403–426.

■ A tale of two cities: The discursive construction of ‘place’ in gentrifying East London, by Christian Ilbury, Pages 551–534.

摘要

The social meaning of stylistic variability: Sociophonetic (in)variance in United States presidential candidates’ campaign rallies

Annette D'Onofrio, Amelia Stecker, Northwestern University, USA

AbstractWhile speakers have been shown to deploy linguistic styles to project socially meaningful personae, less well-understood are the ways that variability or consistency of stylistic practice across and within speech events can itself accumulate to construct a public image. This study examines the use of (ING) and word-final /t/-release across multiple campaign rallies of three US presidential candidates, speakers in heightened contexts of persona construction. Differences emerged in the degree and nature of variability candidates exhibited in the use of these features across rally locales and utterance-level topic differences. We argue that the degree of linguistic variability a candidate exhibits across events itself serves as a socially meaningful linguistic resource, contributing to a constructed public image of flexibility or consistency in relation to a speaker's audience and public platform. We conclude that the amount of linguistic variability a speaker exhibits across contexts is itself a dimension of stylistic practice. 

Key Words: Style, sociophonetics, politicians, variability

Probing linguistic change in Arabic vernaculars: A sociohistorical perspective

Enam Al-Wer, Uri Horesh, University of Essex, UK

Deema Alammar, Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Saudi Arabia

Hind Alaodini, University of Essex, UK

Aziza Al-Essa, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia

Areej Al-Hawamdeh, Jerash University, Jordan

Khairia Al-Qahtani, King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia

Abeer Ab Hussain, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia

AbstractIt is received wisdom in variationist sociolinguistics that linguistic and social factors go hand in hand in structuring variability in language and any consequent instances of language change. We address the complexity of such factors by exploring data from several Arabic dialects in the eastern Arab world. We demonstrate that language change does not always follow expected phonological trajectories, even in cases where older changes are reconstructed to have operated along so-called universal patterns. In our explanation of recent changes in these dialects, we emphasise the role of social motivations for language change and the interactions between these social constraints and purely linguistic ones. Our analysis of change is supported by historical accounts of variation and change in Arabic. We illustrate how general principles of sociolinguistic theory apply to the Arabic data and provide additional layers of sociolinguistic information that highlight the importance of diverse data for evaluating cross-linguistic generalisations. 

Key Words: Arabic, language change, historical sociolinguistics

Jon Gotzon's syncretic bilingual parody: Pushing the boundaries of ‘authentic’ Basque

Agurtzane Elordui, University of the Basque Country General Research Services - Basque Language and Communication, Spain

AbstractIn normative, academic, and informative works on Basque there are constant debates on the boundaries of what is meant by ‘authentic Basque’ and, alongside that, by ‘authentic Basque speaker’. In the current Basque media, these tensions are often addressed by means of creative practices, as in other minority contexts, by means of satire and other forms of humour, especially parody. In this work my subject is the character Jon Gotzon, who engages in parody on the radio programme Gaztea. Jon Gotzon is a hyperbolic and parodic stylisation of a new Basque speaker. He challenges ‘authentic’ and ‘native’ Basque-speaking styles in his syncretic bilingual stylisation and parodic discourse. In this research, I study the way this parody takes advantages of carnivalesque strategies in order to question fixed ideological hierarchies on Basqueness, and I explore the ideological positions Jon Gotzon's parody reveals, especially with respect to hybrid identities in the Basque community. 

Key Words: Parody, stylisation, authenticity, minority media, Basque, humour

‘The words has been immigrate’: Chronotopes in context-shaping narrative co-construction about Taiwanese loanwords with Taiwanese Americans

Ping-Hsuan Wang, Georgetown University: Washington DC, US

Abstract This study argues for the analytical validity of the chronotope in research on context by examining a conversational narrative between Taiwanese and Taiwanese Americans. It offers an endogenous view of context in the sense that chronotopes are anchored by how participants invoke specific time-space representations relevant to the active shaping of context. Furthermore, it adds a historical dimension to the understanding of context as multi-layered in meaning. In the data, participants’ discussion of Taiwanese loanwords creates three connected chronotopes that draw on Taiwan's transnational history for the narrative co-construction. Finally, the chronotopic analysis demonstrates how identities emerge as time-space coordinates—seventeenth-century Dutch in Taiwan and twenty-first-century Taiwanese in the US—and are used as resources to map a shared background with a Taiwanese origin. The study applies the notion of the chronotope outside of the interview setting and contributes to a more laminated theorization of context in naturally occurring conversation. 

Key Words: Chronotope, context, narrative, historicity, Taiwanese American, identity

Self-authorizing action: On let me X in English social interaction

Elliott M. Hoey, University of Basel, Switzerland and University of Siegen, Germany

AbstractThis article contributes to conversation analytic research on the formatting of imperative actions by focusing on the English first person imperative let me/lemme X as it appears in a range of naturally occurring interactions. I argue that lemme X is a practice for displacing what was projectably relevant in a given environment in favor of a self-authorized action. This as a result tends to advance the speaker's interests/initiatives. The analysis accounts for speakers’ apparent presumption of permission in unilaterally undertaking their lemme X action by reference to the placement, design, and subsequent orientations to the self-authorized action. The construction is discussed in terms of the distribution of agency and it is suggested that lemme X is particularly suited to advancing activities that favor autonomous action by the speaker and which involve the recipient only minimally.

Key Words: Conversation analysis, imperatives, directives, English, agency

The spatial logic of linguistic practice: Bourdieusian inroads into language and internationalization in academe

Linus Salö, Stockholm University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

AbstractThis article utilizes Bourdieu's sociology to grasp the relations between linguistic practice and spatiality, and, through that effort, to position language as a pivotal terrain in internationalizing academe. Empirically, it explores Swedish academe and the linguistic practices of its dwellers: Swedish-speaking and non-Swedish-speaking researchers in four disciplines. Here, Swedish co-exists with English as a lingua franca and other languages. Observational and interview data show that this situation gives rise to complex linguistic practices in the workplace, consisting of speakers alternating between Swedish and English or evading other languages. Following Bourdieu, these phenomena manifest in moments when matters of space are rendered salient. They show that linguistic practice is bound up with space to the extent that their interrelationship becomes discernable only when the spatial logic that confines linguistic practices is rejigged. While linguistic practices seemingly operate on a location-based principle, they actually pertain to speakers’ linguistic habitus in relation to the linguistic market conditions in play. 

Key Words: Linguistic practice, space, internationalizing academe

Sri Lankan Tamil experiences of the home-land and host-land: The interaction between language and diasporic identity

Lavanya Sankaran, King's College London, UK

AbstractThis article takes an empirical approach to investigate how diasporic identification with the home-land and host-land INTERACTS with language in a mutually influencing dynamic interplay, giving rise to new language ideologies and identities. Since scholars are increasingly of the opinion that the processes of dislocation and resettlement create multi-layered connections with the home-land and host-land (David 2012:377), it is crucial we recognise that the relationship between fixed geographical territories and communities, and the cultural-linguistic practices associated with them, need to be denaturalised (Rosa & Trivedi 2017:331). In doing so, it is possible to retheorise diasporic identity as a sociocultural process. Attention to language can help shift diasporic phenomena away from being defined as ‘bounded, territorialised, static and homogeneous’ (Canagarajah & Silberstein 2012:82). Examining Sri Lankan Tamil diasporic experiences of the home-land and host-land and their relationship with language will promote such an agenda. 

Key Words: Diaspora, space, home-land, host-land

Formulating other minds in social interaction: Accountability and courses of action

Jörg Zinken, Julia Kaiser, Leibniz-Institute for the German Language (IDS)

AbstractWe examine moments in social interaction in which a person formulates what another thinks or believes. Such formulations of belief constitute a practice with specifiable contexts and consequences. Belief formulations treat aspects of the other person's prior conduct as accountable on the basis that it provided a new angle on a topic, or otherwise made a surprising contribution within an ongoing course of actions. The practice of belief formulations subjectivizes the content that the other articulated and thereby topicalizes it, mobilizing commitment to that position, an account, or further elaboration. We describe how the practice can be put to work in different activity contexts: sometimes it is designed to undermine the other's position as a subjective ‘mere belief’, at other times it serves to mobilize further topic talk. Throughout, belief formulations show themselves to be a method by which we get to know ourselves and each other as mental agents. 

Key Words: Accountability, beliefs, courses of action, formulations, inference, subjectivity, topicalization

Prosody and ideologies of embodiment: Variation in the use of pitch and articulation rate among fitness instructors

Lewis Esposito, Chantal Gratton, Stanford University, USA

Abstract This article discusses semiotic connections among linguistic prosody, the body, and forms of physical activity. A quantitative study of the instructional styles of bodybuilding and yoga instructors on YouTube shows that bodybuilding instructors employ faster articulation rates and higher pitch (F0) than yoga instructors. We argue that articulation rate and pitch become semiotically linked to notions of energy, and the differences in the instructors’ styles are rooted in differences in levels of embodied energy that bodybuilding and yoga are assumed to require. Instructors employ linguistic features that reflect these ideologies of their activities, and in doing so, present themselves as embodied instantiations of their respective practices. This study shows that ideologies of the body as a physically active doer of things provide an important source for the generation of iconic, energy-related meanings. Crucially, we show that ideological notions of energy and embodied iconicity can drive group-level patterns of linguistic variation. 

Key Words: Prosody, iconicity, style, embodiment, social meaning, ideology

Membership categorization analysis of racism in an online discussion among neighbors

Natasha Shrikant, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

Abstract This article addresses relationships between micro and macro aspects of language use through analyzing online interactions among neighbors discussing racism in their neighborhood. Membership categorization analysis supplemented with critical theory highlights how the ways neighbors name, characterize, and position categories orients to their rhetorical and identity goals (to construct reasonable stances, to seem not racist), which in turn motivates alignment with critical, folk, or colorblind ideologies of racism. Thus, ideologies do not determine interactional choices participants make, but rather are constituted by those choices. Findings also illustrate how discursive strategies such as reported speech, absurdity, three-part lists, and metadiscourse support ways that neighbors organize categories and achieve their aims. Additional contributions to this study include demonstrating the utility of membership categorization analysis for analyzing discourses of racism and providing practical insight into how racially diverse groups can have productive conversations about racism. 

Key Words: Racism, ideology, membership categorization analysis

Making privilege palatable: Normative sustainability in chefs’ Instagram discourse

Gwynne Mapes, University of Bern, Switzerland

Andrew S. Ross, University of Sydney, Australia

Abstract In this article we consider the discursive production of status as it relates to democratic ideals of environmental equity and community responsibility, orienting specifically to food discourse and ‘elite authenticity’ (Mapes 2018), as well as to recent work concerning normativity and class inequality (e.g. Thurlow 2016; Hall, Levon, & Milani 2019). Utilizing a dataset comprised of 150 Instagram posts, drawn from three different acclaimed chefs’ personal accounts, we examine the ways in which these celebrities emphasize local/sustainable food practices while simultaneously asserting their claims to privileged eating. Using multimodal critical discourse analysis, we document three general discursive tactics: (i) plant-based emphasis, (ii) local/community terroir, and (iii) realities of meat consumption. Ultimately, we establish how the chefs’ claims to egalitarian/environmental ideals paradoxically diminish their eliteness, while simultaneously elevating their social prestige, pointing to the often complicated and covert ways in which class inequality permeates the social landscape of contemporary eating. 

Key words Food discourse, elite authenticity, normativity, social class, locality/sustainability

Sounding like a father: The influence of regional dialect on perceptions of masculinity and fatherhood

JSara King, University of Oregon, USA

Yi Ren, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Kaori Idemaru, University of Oregon, USA

Cindi Sturtzsreetharan, Arizona State University, USA

Abstract Previous work on the Osaka dialect (OD) collectively suggests that this western regional variant of Japanese is associated with informality, masculinity, and affective fatherhood—social meanings that can be recruited in the construction of audio-visual media personas. This study examines the use of OD by one protagonist in the film Soshite chichi ni naru/Like father, like son, as well as the social meanings that listeners attribute to this variety of Japanese. Specifically, we ask two questions: (i) to what extent is the production of OD in the film recognizable to native speakers of Japanese, and (ii) what qualities do Japanese language users attribute to OD? A dialect recognition experiment found low recognizability of OD but high recognizability of a general ‘nonstandard Japanese’ language variety. Qualitative data revealed that Japanese language users perceived OD to index various characteristics including that of a masculine, affective father. 

Key words Perception, dialect, fatherhood, Osaka dialect, indexicality

‘The good English’: The ideological construction of the target language in adult ESOL

Kelsey Swift, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA

Abstract This project problematizes hegemonic conceptions of language by looking at the construction of ‘English’ in a nonprofit, community-based adult ESOL program in New York. I use ethnographic observation and interviews to uncover the discursive and pedagogical practices that uphold these hegemonic conceptions in this context. I find that the structural conditions of the program perpetuate a conception of ‘English’ shaped by linguistic racism and classism, despite the program's progressive ideals. Linguistic authority is centralized through the presentation of a closed linguistic system and a focus on replication of templatic language. This allows for the drawing of linguistic borders by pathologizing forms traditionally associated with racialized varieties of English, pointing to the persistence of raciolinguistic ideologies. Nevertheless, students destabilize these dominant ideas, revealing a disconnect between mainstream understandings of language and the way adult immigrant learners actually use language, and pointing to possibilities for alternate conceptions and pedagogies. 

Key words Language ideology, raciolinguistics, Standard English, adult ESOL

‘Keep calm, stay safe, and drink bubble tea’: Commodifying the crisis of Covid-19 in Singapore advertising

Rebecca Lurie Starr, Christian Go, Vincent Pak, National University of Singapore

Abstract Advertisements employ multimodal configurations of semiotic resources in an effort to lead consumers to draw particular meanings from desired consumption behaviors. This analysis examines the deployment of such resources in advertising during the global Covid-19 pandemic, focusing on the Southeast Asian nation of Singapore. We identify five discourses that offer distinct framings of Covid-19 as a challenge for workers, a wellness issue, a threat to home and family, a challenge for women, and a threat to the Singapore lifestyle. Undergirded by neoliberal notions such as the productivity imperative, these discourses rationalize a range of consumer behaviors as necessary and justified in the struggle to defeat the virus. Advertisements are argued to place the burden of navigating the pandemic primarily on women via the evocation of power femininity. We propose a new framework, crisis commodification, as a means of understanding the ideological mechanisms at play in Covid-19 advertising.

Key words Critical discourse analysis, crisis commodification, semiotic analysis, advertising, public health, Southeast Asia

Managing narratives, managing identities: Language and credibility in legal consultations with asylum seekers

Marie Jacobs, Katrijn Maryns, Ghent University, Belgium

Abstract This study examines interactional management practices and narrative co-construction in lawyer-asylum seeker consultations in Flanders, Belgium. Drawing upon linguistic-ethnographic fieldwork, it presents a case study of a consultation between an Afghan applicant for international protection, his adviser, and his lawyer. The purpose of the consultation is to prepare the applicant for testifying at the upcoming asylum hearing. Data analysis focuses on (i) the reorientation of the asylum narrative from an authentic-experiential towards a more objectified formal-institutional account; (ii) the participants’ positioning work that indexes this reorientation process; and (iii) their fluctuating alignment of local-interactional and translocal-gatekeeping perspectives. In the discussion, we analyse the consultation in terms of competing legal and experiential voices and views on participant roles/responsibilities. We reflect on how this ambiguity of roles and ideologies relates to the constructed character of credibility, which reveals the importance of adequate legal assistance in this linguistically challenging context.

Key words Legal consultations, asylum procedure, linguistic ethnography, narrative performance, credibility assessment

When simple self-reference is too simple: Managing the categorical relevance of speaker self-presentation

Kevin A. Whitehead, University of California, Santa Barbara, USAUniversity of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Gene H. Lerner, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Abstract Membership categories such as ‘doctor’, ‘customer’, and ‘girl’ can form a set of alternative ways of referring to the same person. Moreover, speakers can select from this array of correct alternatives that term best fitted to what is getting done in their talk. In contrast, self-references alone ordinarily do not convey category membership, unless the speaker specifically employs some sort of category-conveying formulation. This report investigates how speakers manage the categorical relevance of these simplest self-references (e.g. ‘I’, ‘me’, ‘my’) as a practical means of self-presentation. We first describe how speakers forestall recipient attribution of membership categories. We then consider cases where simple self-references are subjected to subsequent elaboration—via self-categorization—in the face of possible recipient misreading of the speaker's category membership. Thereafter, we introduce the practice of contrastive entanglement, and describe how speakers employ it to fashion tacitly categorized self-references that serve the formation of action.

Key words Person reference, conversation analysis, membership categorization devices, race, gender

Embedding in Shawi narrations: A quantitative analysis of embedding in a post-colonial Amazonian indigenous society

Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and University of Queensland, Australia

Tomas Lehecka, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands and University of Basel, Switzerland

Simon A. Claassen, A. A. K. Peute, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen and Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands

Moisés Pinedo Escobedo, Segundo Pinedo Escobedo, Comunidad Nativa Santa María de Cahuapanas, Peru

Abimael Huiñapi Tangoa, Comunidad Nativa Pueblo Chayahuita, Peru

Elio Yumi Pizango, Comunidad Nativa Santa Rosa, Balsapuerto, Peru

Abstract In this article, we provide the first quantitative account of the frequent use of embedding in Shawi, a Kawapanan language spoken in Peruvian Northwestern Amazonia. We collected a corpus of ninety-two Frog Stories (Mayer 1969) from three different field sites in 2015 and 2016. Using the glossed corpus as our data, we conducted a generalised mixed model analysis, where we predicted the use of embedding with several macrosocial variables, such as gender, age, and education level. We show that bilingualism (Amazonian Spanish-Shawi) and education, mostly restricted by complex gender differences in Shawi communities, play a significant role in the establishment of linguistic preferences in narration. Moreover, we argue that the use of embedding reflects the impact of the mestizo1 society from the nineteenth century until today in Santa Maria de Cahuapanas, reshaping not only Shawi demographics but also linguistic practices.

Key words Post-colonial societies, Amazonian linguistics, Kawapanan, Shawi, embedding, language variation and change, contact linguistics

Normativity, power, and agency: On the chronotopic organization of orthographic conventions on social media

Taraneh Sanei, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Abstract This article examines Iranian social media users’ understandings of normative behavior by focusing on a new online ‘nonstandard’ orthographic norm: the ‘hekasreh’. Adopting a chronotopic approach to the study of discourse, I analyze Iranian Twitter users’ social positionings towards the ‘hekasreh’ phenomenon. I show how tweeters invoke different spatiotemporal configurations, and the normative behaviors associated with them, to argue for and/or against this new orthographic norm. Focusing on the argumentative dynamics of the invoked chronotopes, I investigate the agentive and creative ways in which power is claimed and maintained in online spaces. This study, on the one hand, provides more empirical data to highlight the significance of attending to the online-offline nexus, and on the other hand argues for a more dynamic conceptualization of the interaction between normativity, power, and agency in online communication.

Key words Social media, Farsi/Persian orthography, sociolinguistic normativity, chronotope, power, agency

The social meaning of a merger: The evaluation of an Andalusian Spanish consonant merger (ceceo)

Brendan Regan, Texas Tech University, USA

Abstract This study analyzes the social evaluations of the Andalusian Spanish ceceo merger and its split, distinción. A matched-guise experiment was created by digitally manipulating spontaneous speech from twelve Western Andalusian speakers, varying only in syllable-initial [s̪] and [θ] for <s> and <z,ci,ce>, creating ceceo and distinción guises. Based on 221 listeners from Huelva and Lepe, Spain, mixed effects linear regression models found that speakers with distinción guises were evaluated as being of higher social status, more urban, and more formal than speakers with ceceo guises. Additionally, listeners' comments referred not only to the sounds and graphemes, but also to the merger itself and its social connotations. The implications are two-fold: (i) consonant mergers may be subject to more overt social evaluation than vocalic mergers; and (ii) a merger can acquire social meaning, and this meaning in turn, may promote its split.

Key words Mergers, splits, sociolinguistic perception, language attitudes, Andalusian Spanish, sociophonetics, dialect levelling, ceceo, distinción

A tale of two cities: The discursive construction of ‘place’ in gentrifying East London

Christian Ilbury, University of Suffolk, UK

Abstract In recent years, the East End of London has been dramatically transformed from a poor, working-class area, to one of the most fashionable neighbourhoods in the world. Adding to a growing body of research which examines the sociolinguistic dynamics of gentrifying neighbourhoods, this article draws on data from two ethnographic projects to examine how young people from the gentrified (i.e. working-class) and gentrifier (i.e. middle-class) communities index place attachment in East London. I demonstrate that for the gentrified community, place attachment is related to the ethnic and cultural genealogy of the immediate, local neighbourhood. Whilst for the gentrifiers, place identity is associated with the cosmopolitan economic and social opportunities of the city. I argue that whilst these communities occupy the same physical neighbourhood, these discourses suggest that they conceptually and socioculturally reside in two very different cities.

Key words Gentrification, place, space, East London

期刊简介

Language in Society is an international journal of sociolinguistics concerned with language and discourse as aspects of social life. The journal publishes empirical articles of general theoretical, comparative or methodological interest to students and scholars in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, and related fields. Language in Society aims to strengthen international scholarship and interdisciplinary conversation and cooperation among researchers interested in language and society by publishing work of high quality which speaks to a wide audience. In addition to original articles, the journal publishes reviews and notices of the latest important books in the field as well as occasional theme and discussion sections.

《社会中的语言》是一本国际社会语言学杂志，关注语言和话语作为社会生活的各个方面。该杂志发表了对社会语言学、语言人类学和相关领域的学生和学者具有普遍理论、比较或方法学兴趣的实证文章。《社会中的语言》旨在通过出版面向广大读者的高质量作品，加强对语言和社会感兴趣的研究人员之间的国际学术和跨学科对话与合作。除了原创文章外，该杂志还出版了该领域最新重要书籍的评论和通知，以及偶尔的主题和讨论部分。

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