Pub Date : 2023-06-05DOI: 10.1017/s0047404523000416
A. D. Wong
This article demonstrates how mediatization facilitates the (re)production of mock language. Through an examination of Chinese netizens’ reactions to a series of viral internet commercials that feature three Hong Kong actors speaking nonstandard Mandarin, it uncovers the processes whereby Gangpu (Hong Kong Mandarin) has become increasingly perceived in China as funny. The vast scale of uptake formulations enabled by mediatization has made it possible for Chinese netizens to engage in a collaborative effort not only in highlighting certain features of Gangpu and certain elements of the commercials but also in presenting them in ways that evoke specific meanings and interpretations. Ultimately, it is through the parodic revoicing of Hong Kong celebrities speaking nonstandard Mandarin that this non-native variety has come to be keyed as humorous. This study shows that we gain a better understanding of how mock practices reinforce and build on each other by tracing their uptake and circulation. (Mediatization, mock language, parody, listening subject, Mandarin Chinese, Hong Kong, China)*
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1017/s004740452300043x
{"title":"LSY volume 52 issue 3 Cover and Back matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/s004740452300043x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s004740452300043x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51442,"journal":{"name":"Language in Society","volume":"52 1","pages":"b1 - b2"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43730661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1017/s0047404523000313
Joanna Pawelczyk
{"title":"Maida Kosatica, The burden of traumascapes: Discourses of remembering in Bosnia-Herzegovina and beyond. London: Bloomsbury, 2022. Pp. 183. Hb. £85.50.","authors":"Joanna Pawelczyk","doi":"10.1017/s0047404523000313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047404523000313","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51442,"journal":{"name":"Language in Society","volume":"52 1","pages":"539 - 540"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42325934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1017/s0047404523000258
A. Shaitan
{"title":"Tyler Barrett, A sociolinguistic view of a Japanese ethnic church community. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 127. Pb. £39.","authors":"A. Shaitan","doi":"10.1017/s0047404523000258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047404523000258","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51442,"journal":{"name":"Language in Society","volume":"52 1","pages":"542 - 543"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46863932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1017/s0047404523000210
Chris Featherman
{"title":"Massimiliano Demata, Discourses of borders and the nation in the USA: A discourse-historical analysis. New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 86. Hb. £35.99.","authors":"Chris Featherman","doi":"10.1017/s0047404523000210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047404523000210","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51442,"journal":{"name":"Language in Society","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42702048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1017/s0047404523000222
Eugene Yu Ji
tals to Trump and support for a smart border, Clinton used the language of emotion to invoke notions of the US as a compassionate, welcoming nation of immigrants. This merging of affect and historical discourses with the neoliberal language of technical efficiency, Demata argues, formed part of Democrats’ larger political strategy of recontextualising family values discourse, long a pillar of conservative rhetoric, as progressive immigration policy. As populist and neoliberal discourses contend to define a post-global world, Demata reminds us how borders—including the plights of those attempting to cross them—can serve as symbols of social order as well as proxies for political struggle. Although brief, his study offers important insights into how the recontextualisation of political discourses, namely, of family values, the aesthetics of exclusion, and the neoliberal ethics of modernity, contribute to ideological discursive formation and contemporary political language.
{"title":"Jennifer Eagleton, Discursive change in Hong Kong: Sociopolitical dynamics, metaphor, and one country, two systems. New York: Lexington Books, 2022. Pp. 404. Hb. $120.","authors":"Eugene Yu Ji","doi":"10.1017/s0047404523000222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047404523000222","url":null,"abstract":"tals to Trump and support for a smart border, Clinton used the language of emotion to invoke notions of the US as a compassionate, welcoming nation of immigrants. This merging of affect and historical discourses with the neoliberal language of technical efficiency, Demata argues, formed part of Democrats’ larger political strategy of recontextualising family values discourse, long a pillar of conservative rhetoric, as progressive immigration policy. As populist and neoliberal discourses contend to define a post-global world, Demata reminds us how borders—including the plights of those attempting to cross them—can serve as symbols of social order as well as proxies for political struggle. Although brief, his study offers important insights into how the recontextualisation of political discourses, namely, of family values, the aesthetics of exclusion, and the neoliberal ethics of modernity, contribute to ideological discursive formation and contemporary political language.","PeriodicalId":51442,"journal":{"name":"Language in Society","volume":"52 1","pages":"538 - 539"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45968311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1017/S0047404523000234
A. Weichselbraun
{"title":"Mie Femø Nielsen & Ann Merrit Rikke Nielsen, Revisiting trustworthiness in social interaction. New York: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 202. Hb. £130.","authors":"A. Weichselbraun","doi":"10.1017/S0047404523000234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404523000234","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51442,"journal":{"name":"Language in Society","volume":"52 1","pages":"546 - 547"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42606902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1017/S0047404523000180
Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi
{"title":"Robert M. McKenzie & Andrew McNeill, Implicit and explicit language attitudes: Mapping linguistic prejudice and attitude change in England. Abingdon: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 206. Hb. £96.","authors":"Kingsley O. Ugwuanyi","doi":"10.1017/S0047404523000180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404523000180","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51442,"journal":{"name":"Language in Society","volume":"52 1","pages":"545 - 546"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44387248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1017/s0047404523000428
{"title":"LSY volume 52 issue 3 Cover and Front matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/s0047404523000428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047404523000428","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51442,"journal":{"name":"Language in Society","volume":" ","pages":"f1 - f2"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44031082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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