Style: Language Variation and Identity

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Dialect, interaction and class positioning at school: from deficit to difference to repertoire (2013, background): “The clustering of semiotic resources described above is what many sociolinguists working within the ‘third wave’ of variation studies refer to as ‘style’ (see Eckert (2012) for a review; but also Auer (2007), Coupland (2007), Eckert (2000) and Moore (2012)).”
Metrolingualism: fixity, fluidity and language in flux (2010, background): “While conscious irony, affluent consumerism or a focus on fashion are not ideals we would wish to associate closely with metrolingualism, there are nevertheless affiliations here with metrosexual connections to the city, the centrality of style (Coupland, 2007) and the undoing of gendered orthodoxie”
How to do things with slurs: Studies in the way of derogatory words (2013, background): “The idea is that since uses of racial slurs have, historically, often been accompanied by physical violence (Butler, 1997; Coupland, 2007; Zizek, 2007), the derogatory force behind uses of slurs remains an active part of public consciousness.”
Language and Superdiversity (2016, unknown): “particular forms of speech – this can be seen in a very substantial growth of sociolinguistic interest in artful oral performance, where there is heightened evaluative awareness of both the act of expression and the performer, not just on stage or in heteroglossic speech mixing, but also in, for exa”