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Sociolinguistics of style and social class in contemporary Athens /

This ethnographic study deals with the ways people in Athens, Greece, use style to construct their social class identities. Including a rich dataset comprising ethnographic interviews with actual people who live in the stereotypically seen as leafy and posh northern suburbs and in the stereotypicall...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Theodoropoulou, Irene (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014]
Colección:Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; 57.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Sociolinguistics of Style and Social Class in Contemporary Athens; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; List of tables; List of figures; List of diagrams; Transcription conventions; Introduction; 1. Contextualizing style and identity in socio-cultural linguistics; 1.1 Style, genre, and identity; 1.2 "Style resources and contextualization" model; 1.3 "Identities in interaction" model; 1.4 Style as identity-contextualization mechanism; 1.4.1 Why does style construct identity?; 1.4.2 When and where does style construct identity?
  • 1.4.3 How does style construct identity?2. Investigating style and identity in contemporary urban society; 2.1 Methodology; 2.1.1 Linguistic ethnography; 2.1.2 Digital ethnography; 2.1.3 Popular culture ethnography; 2.1.4 Key issues in triangulating methods in socio-cultural linguistics; 2.2 Data; 2.2.1 Data from participants; 2.2.2 Data from popular culture; 2.3 Concluding remarks; 3. Athenian suburban speech and stylistic representations in greek popular culture; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Discourse as a system of style representation; 3.3 Formation of genres of Greek popular culture
  • 3.4 Northern and western suburban speech style and social class representations3.4.1 Sociolinguistic resources; 3.4.2 Communicative competence; 3.4.3 Performativity; 3.5 Style, social class and indexicality in popular culture; 3.6 Concluding remarks; 4. Athenian suburbanites' double-voiced performances as identity work; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Stylization; 4.3 Parody; 4.4 Identifying instances of double-voiced speech; 4.5 Social action; 4.6 Stylized social actions; 4.6.1 Denaturalization; 4.6.2 Irony; 4.6.3 Alazony; 4.7 Parody as mocking; 4.8 Double voicing identity and indexicality
  • 4.9 Concluding remarks5. Metapragmatic accounts of athenian suburbanite social classes; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Sociolinguistic meta-language on social class; 5.3 Social classes and genres; 5.4 New-poor and nouveau-riche; 5.5 Middle class and wage-earners; 5.6 G700; 5.7 Indexicalities in the VP-DP discourse; 5.8 Concluding remarks; 6. Towards a holistic approach to style; Postscript: social class and style in a financial crisis context; A. Participants' profiles; B. Excerpt from Deka Mikroi Mitsoi; C. Questions in ethnographic interviews; D. Vp hip hop artists' 'answer' to Gucci dress
  • Glossary of the main theoretical notions used in the bookReferences; Index