ANTB21H3 Lecture 8: Lecture 8 Cont. Mar.8.12.docx
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Deborah camron: at some point, guys turn towards gossip. Interacting in this style of speaking is a risk because it bursts boundaries of being a guy: the way we put signs together to interact is performative, produces context peformativity where other social identities come out. Engaging in feminine discourse genres: we have ways of producing frames within frames of the ways we speak. Dialing it up = stereotypical black man. In-group: talking standard can be interrupted as acting white: to dial it up in this context is a way to act out a kind of belonging. Relations between these different kinds of contexts = talking standard are similar: ways of speaking get set in certain institutions of power. Russell peters: language switching: frame within a frame. Outing on an accent or imitating someone in your home environment. White, christian, english, middle-class people are unmarked.
