11. Folk Linguistics and the Nostalgia of the Past City
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Jennifer Cramer
Abstract
Folk linguistics, a subtype of ethnolinguistics, is a theoretical framework that studies the beliefs that nonlinguists have about language. This study uses a folk linguistics approach to explore the concept of nostalgia and anti-nostalgia which can be used by Louisvillians to justify the regional placement of the urban city Louisville, Kentucky. The regional identity of the city is complex with Louisvillians shifting between Southern and non-Southern identities. While there is some deprecation towards Southern varieties due to their connection to the past and certain connotations that this entails, the residents do not reject all aspects of Southernness meaning there is still a degree of nostalgia present.
Abstract
Folk linguistics, a subtype of ethnolinguistics, is a theoretical framework that studies the beliefs that nonlinguists have about language. This study uses a folk linguistics approach to explore the concept of nostalgia and anti-nostalgia which can be used by Louisvillians to justify the regional placement of the urban city Louisville, Kentucky. The regional identity of the city is complex with Louisvillians shifting between Southern and non-Southern identities. While there is some deprecation towards Southern varieties due to their connection to the past and certain connotations that this entails, the residents do not reject all aspects of Southernness meaning there is still a degree of nostalgia present.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Inhalt V
- Urban Linguistics: Ideas and Anchor Points 1
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I Bezugsfelder der urbanen Linguistik/ Fields of Reference of Urban Linguistics
- 1. Urban Variationist Sociolinguistics 33
- 2. ‘Rural’ and ‘Urban’ in Dialectology 52
- 3. Fundamentals of Urban Semiotics: Exemplified by Examples taken from the Chinese City 74
- 4. Experience as Moving Methodology: Notations on the Study of Urban Diversity 86
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II Kommunikationsraum Stadt/ City as Communicative Space
- 5. Urban Communities of Practice 117
- 6. Neue Dialekte im urbanen Europa 137
- 7. Urbanes Place-Making und Sprechen über Musik 165
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III Mobilität, Fluidität und Konstruktionen in städtischen Zeichenarealen/ Mobility, Fluidity and Constructions in Urban Semiotic Areas
- 8. Mobilities and Mobile Methods 191
- 9. Linguistic Landscapes 218
- 10. Semiotic Landscapes 245
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IV. Historizität der Stadt im Diskurs/ Historicity of the City in Discourse
- 11. Folk Linguistics and the Nostalgia of the Past City 271
- 12. Historical Discourse about Cities 292
- 13. Polyhistorizität im öffentlichen Raum 311
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V Experimente/ Experiments
- 14. Melancholy Objects Remixed: A Multimodal Counterstatement on Photography in Urban Linguistics 333
- 15. The HeiURBAN Database: A Brief and Unconventional Position Piece 394
- Index 415
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Inhalt V
- Urban Linguistics: Ideas and Anchor Points 1
-
I Bezugsfelder der urbanen Linguistik/ Fields of Reference of Urban Linguistics
- 1. Urban Variationist Sociolinguistics 33
- 2. ‘Rural’ and ‘Urban’ in Dialectology 52
- 3. Fundamentals of Urban Semiotics: Exemplified by Examples taken from the Chinese City 74
- 4. Experience as Moving Methodology: Notations on the Study of Urban Diversity 86
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II Kommunikationsraum Stadt/ City as Communicative Space
- 5. Urban Communities of Practice 117
- 6. Neue Dialekte im urbanen Europa 137
- 7. Urbanes Place-Making und Sprechen über Musik 165
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III Mobilität, Fluidität und Konstruktionen in städtischen Zeichenarealen/ Mobility, Fluidity and Constructions in Urban Semiotic Areas
- 8. Mobilities and Mobile Methods 191
- 9. Linguistic Landscapes 218
- 10. Semiotic Landscapes 245
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IV. Historizität der Stadt im Diskurs/ Historicity of the City in Discourse
- 11. Folk Linguistics and the Nostalgia of the Past City 271
- 12. Historical Discourse about Cities 292
- 13. Polyhistorizität im öffentlichen Raum 311
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V Experimente/ Experiments
- 14. Melancholy Objects Remixed: A Multimodal Counterstatement on Photography in Urban Linguistics 333
- 15. The HeiURBAN Database: A Brief and Unconventional Position Piece 394
- Index 415
