Snell, J orcid.org/0000-0002-0337-7212 (2018) Solidarity, stance, and class identities. Language in Society, 47 (5). pp. 665-691. ISSN 0047-4045
Abstract
Scholars have explained working-class speakers’ continued use of stigmatised vernaculars as a response to their relative powerlessness in relation to the standard language market. Research has shown how, in the face of this powerlessness, working-class communities turn to group solidarity, and use of the vernacular is seen as part of this more general orientation. As a result, two competing social values—status and solidarity—have featured prominently in discussions around language and class. I expand these discussions using data from a linguistic ethnographic study of children's language in Teesside, England. I argue that meanings related to status and solidarity operate at multiple levels and cannot be taken for granted, and demonstrate that vernacular forms that lack status within the dominant sociolinguistic economy may be used to assert status within local interactional use. I further advance discussion of the ways local vernaculars might be intimately linked to classed subjectivities. (Social class, variation, solidarity, status, stance, indexicality, identity, interaction, ethnography)
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Cambridge University Press 2018. All rights reserved. This article has been published in a revised form in Language in Society https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404518000970. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Social class; variation; solidarity; status; stance; indexicality; identity; interaction; ethnography; language variation |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of English (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 05 Jul 2018 15:42 |
Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2018 16:00 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/S0047404518000970 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:132911 |