Linguistic identity is built from repeated micro-style choices rather than any essence.
Evidence
Whereas scholars concerned with stance concentrate on conversational acts such as evaluative expressions, sociolinguists of style typically look instead to linguistic structures below the discursive level, such as grammar, phonology, and lexis. In an indexical process similar to what both Ochs and Rauniomaa describe for stance, these features become tied to styles and hence to identity through habitual practice (Bourdieu, 1977, 1978). Thus through their repeated choice of one quotative form over another in interactions such as Examples (3) and (4) earlier, teenagers in California display their identity as nerdy or popular. — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction, 64
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Identity is constructed through opposition to a continuously reinterpreted other; Creole language variation prevents identity from reifying into essence — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 349; Language-identity links are ideological, not natural — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction: A…, 50 (+7 more)
Broader Connections
- Language-identity links are ideological, not natural
#corroborates(0.85) — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction, 50 - Creole language variation prevents identity from reifying into essence
#exemplifies(0.82) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 349 - Identity emerges in discourse rather than preceding it
#corroborates(0.82) — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction, 119 - Indexicality links linguistic forms to identity through culturally rooted ideologies
#expands(0.80) — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction, 50 - Identity is constructed through discourse and dialogic interaction, not self-creation
#corroborates(0.80) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 23 - Word identity and meaning are effects of paradoxical sameness within repetition.
#expands(0.78) - Human identity is constructed and occasionally invented, not natural and stable
#corroborates(0.76) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 839 - Language is not invented but is the originary recognition of the Other.
#complicates(0.74) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 952 - Individual identity forms dialogically through a constitutive outside, not autonomously.
#qualifies(0.73) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 363 - Identity is constructed through opposition to a continuously reinterpreted other
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