Being more alternative and less Brit-pop: The quest for originality in three urban styles in Athens

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Authenticity: A view from inside and outside sociolinguistics 1
4. Language, society and authenticity: Themes and perspectives 14
5. Section I: Indexing local meanings of authenticity
6. The trouble with authenticity 43
7. Chinese social practice and San Franciscan authenticity 55
8. Being more alternative and less Brit-pop: The quest for originality in three urban styles in Athens 78
9. “100 % Authentic Pittsburgh”: Sociolinguistic authenticity and the linguistics of particularity 97
10. ‘Oh boy, ¿hablas español?’ – Salsa and the multiple value of authenticity in late capitalism 113
11. The commodification of authenticity 136
12. Section 2: Indexing authenticity in delocalised settings
13. The race from place: Dialect eradication vs. the linguistic “authenticity” of terroir 159
14. Reported Speech as an authentication tactic in computer-mediated communication 188
15. Authenticity in dialect performance? 209
16. From vernacular to digital ethnolinguistic repertoire: The case of Nigerian Pidgin 244
17. Hybridity as authenticity in Nigerian hip-hop lyrics 269
18. Section 3: Authenticity construction in other mediatised contexts
19. Authentic writing 289
20. Lexical variation at the internationalized university: Are indexicality and authenticity always relevant? 304
21. “Real communities”, rhetorical borders: Authenticating British identity in political discourse and on-line debate 324
22. What’s in a promesse authentique? Doubting and confirming authenticity in 17th-century French diplomacy 343
23. Index 366