Identity and Dialect Performance: A Study of Communities and Dialects

Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Dialects in localised and delocalised contexts
	1 Nonstandard dialect and identity • John Edwards
	2 The elusive dialect border • Dick Smakman and Marten van der Meulen
	3 Dialect performances in superdiverse communities:The case for ethnographic approaches to language variation • Anna De Fina
Part II: Nation-states and identity construction in relation to a standard and a dialect
	4 The construction of linguistic borders and the rise of national identity in South Sudan: Some insights into Juba Arabic (Árabi Júba) • Stefano Manfredi
	5 From language to dialect and back: The case of Piedmontese • Mauro Tosco
	6 Darija and the construction of “Moroccanness” • Dominique Caubet
	7 “Sloppy speech is like sloppy dress”: Folk attitudes towards nonstandard British English • Carmen Ebner
Part III: Contact, variation, performance and metalinguistic discourse
	8 From varieties in contact to the selection of linguistic resources in multilingual settings • Isabelle Léglise and Santiago Sánchez Moreano
	9 “You live in the United States, you speak English,” decían las maestras: How New Mexican Spanish speakers enact, ascribe, and reject ethnic identities • Katherine O’Donnell Christoffersen and Naomi L. Shin
	10 The social meanings of Wolof and French: Contact dialects, language ideology, and competing modernities in Senegal • Fiona Mc Laughlin
	11 The social value of linguistic practices in Tetouan and Ghomara (Northwestern Morocco) • Ángeles Vicente and Amina Naciri-Azzouz
	12 New presentations of self in everyday life: Linguistic transgressions in England, Germany, and Japan • Patrick Heinrich
	13 Language and identity in Siwa Oasis: Indexing belonging, localness, and authenticity in a small minority community • Valentina Serreli
Part IV: The media, dialect performance, and language variation
	14 YouTube Yinzers: Stancetaking and the performance of ‘Pittsburghese’ • Scott F. Kiesling
	15 Performing identity on screen: Language, identity, and humour in Scottish television comedy • Natalie Braber
	16 Identity, repertoire, and performance: The case of an Egyptian poet • Reem Bassiouney
	17 Ruination and amusement – dialect, youth, and revolution in Naija • Anne Storch
	18 Dialectal variation and identity in post-revolutionary Libyan media: The case of Dragunov (2014) • Luca D’Anna
	19 The effect of TV and internal vs. external contact on variation in Syrian rural child language • Rania Habib
Index