Turning talk into text: the representation of contemporary urban vernaculars in Swedish fiction

IF 0.8 3区 文学 Q3 COMMUNICATION Text & Talk Pub Date : 2024-04-05 DOI:10.1515/text-2023-0084
Natalia Ganuza, Maria Rydell
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This article examines the literary representation of contemporary urban vernaculars (CUV) in fiction. It focuses specifically on four Swedish novels published in the last ten years, whose narratives are set in the urban and increasingly multilingual, migrant-rich and class-stratified peripheral areas of Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. The analysis centers on how they are situated in these urban peripheries, using written representations of spoken, non-standard Swedish CUV as symbolic resources to give authenticity to the narratives. We examine the distinctive linguistic features that are employed to evoke the imagination of CUV, and how these are used to build the fictional characters and to create certain recognizable social personas and practices. We also discuss the linguistic features that are available but are not exploited to represent the fictional characters’ ways of speaking, and possible reasons why this is so. Finally, we examine how the novels exploit contrasts between registers, particularly between CUV and adult second-language speaker styles and between CUV and standard Swedish, and with what effects. The findings are discussed in the context of the broader social discourses about language, migration, CUV and adult second-language speakers in present-day Sweden.
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化说为文:瑞典小说中对当代城市方言的表述
本文探讨了当代城市方言(CUV)在小说中的文学表现。文章特别关注过去十年间出版的四部瑞典小说,这些小说的叙事背景是瑞典首都斯德哥尔摩日益增多的多语言、移民密集和阶级分化的城市周边地区。分析的重点是这些作品是如何置身于这些城市边缘地区的,并将非标准瑞典语 CUV 口语的书面表达作为象征性资源,赋予叙事以真实性。我们研究了用于唤起对 CUV 想象的独特语言特点,以及如何利用这些语言特点塑造虚构人物形象,并创造某些可识别的社会角色和习俗。我们还讨论了那些可用但未被用来表现虚构人物说话方式的语言特点,以及出现这种情况的可能原因。最后,我们研究了小说如何利用语域之间的对比,尤其是 CUV 与成人第二语言说话者风格之间的对比,以及 CUV 与标准瑞典语之间的对比,并探讨了其效果。我们将结合当今瑞典有关语言、移民、CUV 和成人第二语言使用者的更广泛的社会论述来讨论这些研究结果。
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期刊介绍: Text & Talk (founded as TEXT in 1981) is an internationally recognized forum for interdisciplinary research in language, discourse, and communication studies, focusing, among other things, on the situational and historical nature of text/talk production; the cognitive and sociocultural processes of language practice/action; and participant-based structures of meaning negotiation and multimodal alignment. Text & Talk encourages critical debates on these and other relevant issues, spanning not only the theoretical and methodological dimensions of discourse but also their practical and socially relevant outcomes.
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