“Form” and “function” in Soviet Stage Romani: Modeling metapragmatics through performance institutions  

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LEMON, ALAINA MARIA

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language in Society (ada di PROQUEST) vol. 31 no. 1 (Feb. 2002), page 29–64.
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A crucial division of linguistic labor is that among metalinguistic labors. Who is authorized to speak about language, how, and where? Language ideologies not only ascribe different functions to different languages; they also ascribe different sorts of metadiscourse to speakers of (or about) those languages. Drawing from archival and field work, this article traces the ways particular Soviet and post-Soviet institutions and actors modeled and regi- mented metapragmatic discourses, specifically through stage and screen prac- tices and representations that hypercontextualized utterances in Romani. They became so hegemonic that, in public arenas, Romani speakers spoke only about nonreferential functions; only in less well broadcast contexts (and mainly with other Roma) did they articulate metalinguistic and metaref- erential discourses. These practices reverse and contrast with the main- stream metapragmatics of Russian. Language ideologies commonly rank codes and metadiscourses; this case illuminates not only that they do so, but also how they do so, and it suggests what their social effects may be. (Romani, Russian, standardization, metapragmatics, language ideology, history.)

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