Dialect enregisterment in performance  

Oleh:

Johnstone, Barbara

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Sociolinguistics (Full Text) vol. 15 no. 5 (2011), page 657-679.
Topik: Audience; dialect; enregisterment; performance; Pittsburgh; radio
Fulltext: Johnstone_Barbara.pdf (202.73KB)

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This paper explores sociolinguistic enregisterment in two comedy sketches performed by a team of radio DJs. I show that dialect enregisterment works differently in these high performances than in other genres. Unlike the cultural artifacts that have been the focus of previous work, this sort of broadcast comedic performance creates multiple possibilities for the enregisterment of unexpected linguistic forms. Linking locally-occurring forms to multiple models of speech, behavior, and action, performances like these expand the set of potential meanings of particular forms by linking them with new or additional registers, creating semiotic alignments between different social identities that can be indexed by the same forms. Thus, in addition to describing what an idealized ‘culturally literate’ audiencemember needs to know in order to understand the performance, it may also repay our effort to ask how actual hearers understand what is going on.

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