[PPT] - Some more on Reference and performativity Style, bricolage, and PowerPoint Presentation

SLIDE 1

Some more on
Reference and performativity
Style, bricolage, and persona
Indexicality and indexical order
Using Praat
The acoustic signal
The articulation and acoustics of /s/

SLIDE 2

I’m sexy I ’ m t

c
l

f

r

t h e r

m

I’m tough I’m refined I’m I’m smar art

SLIDE 3

Performativity is …

“… discursive practice that enacts or produces that which it names”

Butler, Judith. 1993. Bodies that matter Abingdon: Routledge.

Style produces, in the moment, a persona.

SLIDE 4

Style is manifest ideology

Agha, Asif. 2003. The social life of a cultural value. Language and communication 23.231-73.

SLIDE 5

SLIDE 6

the New Yorker Aug. 27, 2012

“The scales say ‘alien overlord,’ but the rolled-up sleeves say ‘man of the people.’”

Bricolage

SLIDE 7

Resources for linguistic style

Phonetic variation
morpho-syntactic variation
Lexical choice
Discourse markers
Speech acts
Interaction style
Content

SLIDE 8

Randall this Bush this

SLIDE 9

Podesva, Robert J., and Janneke Van Hofwegen. 2015. /s/exuality in small-town California: Gender normativity and the acoustic realization of /s/. In Erez Levon and Ronald Mendes (eds.), Language, Sexuality, and Power: Studies in Intersectional Sociolinguistics. Oxford University Press. pp. 168-188.

SLIDE 10

COG: Age, Gender, and Country Orientation

Country Town

COG (ERB)

Age F M

gender (p < 0.0001) age (p < 0.0096) age * country orientation (p < 0.0113)

Podesva, Robert J., and Janneke Van Hofwegen. 2015. /s/exuality in small-town California: Gender normativity and the acoustic realization of /s/. In Erez Levon and Ronald Mendes (eds.), Language, Sexuality, and Power: Studies in Intersectional Sociolinguistics. Oxford University Press. pp. 168-188.

SLIDE 11

/s/

Calder, Jeremy. 2017. Hand/s/ome women: A semiotics of non-normative gender in SOMA, San Francisco. PhD Dissertation. Stanford University.

SLIDE 12

Possible orders of indexicality

n male/female (frequency code?) n+1 male/female masculinity/femininity straight/gay n+1+1 masculinity/femininity southern n+1+1+1 southern country

SLIDE 13

gay crisp feminine sissy fierce

Potential indexical field for front /s/ Others?

SLIDE 14

(ING)

Labov, W. 1966. The social stratification of English in New York City Washington, DC: Center for Applied Linguistics.

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 umc lmc uwc lwc % negative concord

male

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 Casual Careful Reading

% -ən

Lower Working Lower Middle Upper Middle

Wolfram, Walt. 1969. A sociolinguistic description of Detroit Negro speech Washington DC: Center for Applied Linguistics.

SLIDE 15

The seduction of numbers

5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 Boys Girls % Negative Concord

What does it mean to say females’ grammar is more standard than males’? Does it say something global about females and males? Or is it a guidepost to what speakers use standard grammar for? p = .0000

Eckert, Penelope. 2000. Linguistic variation as social practice Oxford: Blackwell.

SLIDE 16

burnouts jocks

SLIDE 17

5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 Burnout Girls Burnout Boys Jock Girls Jock Boys % Negative Concord

Which males and females?

SLIDE 18

burnouts jocks Burned-out burnouts

SLIDE 19

Which males and females, jocks and burnouts?

0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2

0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 Burned-out Burnout girls Burnout boys Regular Burnout girls Athlete Jock boys Non-Athlete Jock boys Jock girls

Std. Dev. from class mean