iA Mi No Me Manda Nadie! Individualism And Identity In Mexican Ranchereo Speech  

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Farr, Marcia

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Pragmatics: Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association vol. 10 no. 1 (2000), page 1-25.
Topik: Mexican; verbal performance; identity; transnational; way of speaking; franqueza

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Rancheros are presented as a distinct subgroup of Mexican campesinos peasants who enact a liberal individualist ideology that centrally values private property, especially land, and hard work as the legitimate route to el progreso progress. Both male and female rancheros are tough and independent ranch people who construct their identities in contrast to indigenas Indians on the one hand (whom rancheros view as communally-oriented), and catrines city people (whom rancheros see as fancily-dressed, and acting, dandies) on the other. A history of frontier isolation and mobility in la sociedad ranchera ranchero society facilitated the development of both autonomy and strong ties of reciprocity for mutual support in hostile conditions, as well as common ways of living, dressing, and speaking. This valuing of both autonomy and affiliation undermines the often-invoked dichotomy between Mexicans and North Americans as being communal, or group-oriented, and individualistic, or self-oriented, respectively. Rather than predominantly one or the other, rancheros value both autonomy and affiliation. This historically constructed identity is enacted in a particular way of speaking, franqueza frankness, direct, straightforward, candid language that goes directly to a point. Informal verbal performances by members of these families within their homes, both in Chicago and Mexico, are analyzed for their construction of ranchero identity through franqueza.

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