Uptake (un)limited
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Deborah Cole
Abstract
This chapter analyzes the “language panic” (Hill 2008) following Hillary Clinton’s register-shifting performance of the gospel song “I Don’t Feel No Ways Tired” during the U.S. presidential campaign in 2007. We observe that mediatization (Agha 2011b) creates and maintains the conditions by which some messages and uptake patterns remain unavailable to wider audiences while others are continuously recycled and increasingly accessible. We argue that the maintenance of unequal divisions of semiotic labor can be facilitated by mediatization as currently practiced. We observe that value projects attached to mediatized fragments work to maintain the hierarchy of perduring semiotic registers (Goebel 2010) in U.S. public discourse in which Standard (Hill 2008) continues to dominate all others.
Abstract
This chapter analyzes the “language panic” (Hill 2008) following Hillary Clinton’s register-shifting performance of the gospel song “I Don’t Feel No Ways Tired” during the U.S. presidential campaign in 2007. We observe that mediatization (Agha 2011b) creates and maintains the conditions by which some messages and uptake patterns remain unavailable to wider audiences while others are continuously recycled and increasingly accessible. We argue that the maintenance of unequal divisions of semiotic labor can be facilitated by mediatization as currently practiced. We observe that value projects attached to mediatized fragments work to maintain the hierarchy of perduring semiotic registers (Goebel 2010) in U.S. public discourse in which Standard (Hill 2008) continues to dominate all others.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword vii
- Preface xi
- Introduction xxi
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Section 1. Approaches to the study of the indigenous languages of the Americas
- The diachrony of Ute case-marking 3
- Language contact as an inhibitor of sound change 29
- Stress in Yucatec Maya 53
- The phonetic correlates of Southern Ute stress 85
- Revisiting Tohono O’odham high vowels 107
- Head-marking inflection and the architecture of grammatical theory 133
- A case-study in grass roots development of web resources for language workers 175
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Section 2. Approaches to the study of voices and ideologies
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Language contact, shift, and endangerment – implications for policy
- Spanish in contact with indigenous tongues 203
- How can a language with 7 million speakers be endangered? 229
- A documentary ethnography of a Blackfoot language course 257
- Syncretic speech, linguistic ideology, and intertextuality 291
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Racism in discourse – analyses of practice
- Narrative discriminations in Central California’s indigenous narrative traditions 321
- The voice of (White) reason 339
- Double-voicing in the everyday language of Brazilian black activism 365
- Uptake (un)limited 389
- The silken cord 415
- Afterword 425
- Language index 431
- Subject index 433
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword vii
- Preface xi
- Introduction xxi
-
Section 1. Approaches to the study of the indigenous languages of the Americas
- The diachrony of Ute case-marking 3
- Language contact as an inhibitor of sound change 29
- Stress in Yucatec Maya 53
- The phonetic correlates of Southern Ute stress 85
- Revisiting Tohono O’odham high vowels 107
- Head-marking inflection and the architecture of grammatical theory 133
- A case-study in grass roots development of web resources for language workers 175
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Section 2. Approaches to the study of voices and ideologies
-
Language contact, shift, and endangerment – implications for policy
- Spanish in contact with indigenous tongues 203
- How can a language with 7 million speakers be endangered? 229
- A documentary ethnography of a Blackfoot language course 257
- Syncretic speech, linguistic ideology, and intertextuality 291
-
Racism in discourse – analyses of practice
- Narrative discriminations in Central California’s indigenous narrative traditions 321
- The voice of (White) reason 339
- Double-voicing in the everyday language of Brazilian black activism 365
- Uptake (un)limited 389
- The silken cord 415
- Afterword 425
- Language index 431
- Subject index 433
