One utterance can simultaneously produce adequation and distinction

Evidence

While processes of social differentiation may be found at some level in all of the examples given earlier, we return here to Example (6), the exchange in the Tongan marketplace. This interaction offers a clear instance of adequation with modern English-speaking cosmopolitanism. Moreover, by means of some of the same resources, it produces distinction as well. Besnier points out that the seller’s use of centralized New Zealand-like vowels creates a relation of distinction with certain other Tongans: ‘She also distances herself from Tongan-accented English (with some difficulty at the level of syntax) and all that it represents in the New Zealand context, including the stigma of being an underclass “Islander,” whose vowels are never centralized’ (2004: 32). — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction, 81

Categorization

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• XREF: connects to: Distinction suppresses similarities just as adequation suppresses differences — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction: A…, 80; Unaffirmed assertions can express truths incommensurable with dominant discourse — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 82; A single phrase can hold contradictory temporal meanings simultaneously — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 54 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Prosody alone can invert the meaning of identical spoken words. #exemplifies (0.80)
• A single phrase can hold contradictory temporal meanings simultaneously #exemplifies (0.78) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 54
• Adequation can be applied by speakers to position others as alike for political ends. #expands (0.76) — Mary Bucholtz and Kira Hall, Identity and Interaction, 79
• Unaffirmed assertions can express truths incommensurable with dominant discourse #expands (0.75) — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 82