Towards a sociolinguistics of in difference: stancetaking on others

IF 2.1 2区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Applied Linguistics Review Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI:10.1515/applirev-2024-0090
Quentin Williams
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This paper proposes a sociolinguistics of in difference, an inquiry-based approach to stancetaking on others. It describes how multilingual speakers in an online context orientate towards a stance-object and affiliate, align and negotiate difference through embodied performances, as part of advancing an ethics of responsibility for the other and aesthetic investments. In the analysis of such orientations, I draw on virtual interactional data to illustrate how in difference through stancetaking is entextualized in the aesthetic, embodied performance of parody, in so-called Coloured English, Kaaps and a mixture of other languages by an emerging R&B and pop group in Cape Town. I demonstrate how the group invest in embodied performances merge the material, linguistic, cultural and semiotic significance of the body to undermine fixity and categorization. But also, how push-back from YouTube commentators, influencers, reactors take up evaluative, affective and epistemic stances as they move from difference to in difference. I conclude with the argument that in order for us to take adequate account of an ethics of responsibility for the other and describing aesthetic investments in embodied performances we have to recalibrate our theoretical and methodological toolkit to understand what it means to use language with dignity, to encounter each other in spaces of dignity and to just be dignified in diversity.
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迈向差异社会语言学:以他人为榜样
本文提出了一种 "差异社会语言学"(sociolinguistics of in difference),这是一种以探究为基础的研究他人立场的方法。它描述了在网络语境中,多语言使用者是如何通过体现性表演来定位立场对象和关联、调整和协商差异的,以此作为推进对他人负责和审美投资伦理的一部分。在分析这种取向时,我利用虚拟互动数据来说明,开普敦的一个新兴 R&B 和流行音乐团体如何在模仿的美学、具身表演中,用所谓的有色人种英语(Coloured English)、卡普斯语(Kaaps)和其他混合语言,通过 "站位"(stancetaking)来体现差异。我展示了该团体如何通过身体表演,将身体的物质、语言、文化和符号意义融合在一起,从而破坏固定性和分类。同时,YouTube 评论员、影响者和反应者在从差异到差异中的过程中,是如何采取评价、情感和认识论立场的。最后,我想说的是,为了让我们充分考虑到对他人负责的伦理学,并描述在具身表演中的美学投资,我们必须重新调整我们的理论和方法工具包,以理解有尊严地使用语言、在有尊严的空间中相遇以及在多样性中保持尊严的含义。
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